Description:The Senior Operating Officer (SOO), Royal Alexandra Hospital and Lois Hole Hospital for Women (RAH), is a key leadership role in the Edmonton Corridor. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, Edmonton Corridor, the SOO functions in close partnership with the Hospital Medical Director (HMD) and is accountable for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of a diverse portfolio of programs and services provided at the RAH and other site-based, Corridor-wide programming. Working as administrative co-leads, the SOO and the HMD will develop, implement, and evaluate strategic and operational plans, policies, budgets, and forecasts, making sound business cases for investment and funding decisions as required. You will manage financial, human, and capital resources, with a budget of over $502M and over 4900 employees[DC2.1][DP2.2]. You will make confident decisions and recommendations regarding those allocations in a complex environment with competing priorities. As the SOO, you will contribute to strategies and operational plans at the site, program and corridor level, showing awareness of external factors and trends, anticipating challenges. You will put systems in place to determine risk tolerance, proactively monitor risks, and develop contingency plans to address them.
- Classification: Senior Operating Officer
- Union: Exempt Executive
- Unit and Program: Royal Alexandra Hospital/Lois Hole Hospital for Women
- Primary Location: Royal Alexandra Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Negotiable Location: Within Edmonton Zone
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 15-JUL-2026
- Date Available: 04-SEP-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $93.18
- Maximum Salary: $142.55
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications: The successful candidate will possess a minimum of a graduate degree in health care management, business administration, or a related health care field. Progressive senior leadership experience in a healthcare environment, including a minimum of seven (7) years experience in a senior management role in clinical operations or healthcare operations.
Additional Required Qualifications: The successful candidate will have demonstrated leadership skills, including the ability and comfort with decision-making responsibilities including ability to rapidly process and comprehend large amounts of detailed information, consider the implications and consequences of new facts and make decisions. This person will have demonstrated strategic, critical thinking, and planning competencies. The incumbent can successfully undertake both leadership and management responsibility for large-scale initiatives, including capital development involving significant dollar amounts and implications, and manage diverse human, financial, and physical resources within a complex environment. Experience leading change and creating innovative solutions for complex and diverse issues and strong project management skills are complemented with the ability to balance competing priorities, complex situations, and tight deadlines. Ability to foster a collaborative, integrated, inclusive environment and build solid relationships with many diverse occupational groups, including peers, public agencies, government, boards (including Foundation Boards), committees, and other partners. This requires excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills including ability to be articulate, concise, compelling and diplomatic. Proven change management, negotiation and mediation skills are essential.
Preferred Qualifications: Canadian Health Leader certification considered an asset. A candidate with recent health leadership experience and a broad understanding of healthcare service delivery in a complex and dynamic environment.
