Project Manager - Critical Care & Nursing Certificate Programs - Regular Full-time 2025-13404

The Project Manager will join the Nursing Education team and report to the Director of Interprofessional & Academic Education. They will facilitate a standardized approach to post graduate critical care nursing certificate programs, and will contribute to continuing education initiatives involving post graduate sponsorships/certificate programs. They will optimize the education model to provide an effective, efficient, and sustainable approach that is both strategic and data driven. Additional areas of focus include optimizing the learning environment, enhancing the success of learners, and attending to the needs of the staff involved in teaching.

Responsibilities include:

• Supports the strategic advancement of post graduate critical care nursing certificate programs to support continuing education and workforce pathways
• Contributes to other continuing education initiatives involving post graduate sponsorships/certificate programs
• Applies best practices in education and explores the role of tools and technology with respect to educational outcomes
• Makes recommendations to ensure program quality (e.g. models for funding, education, cohort timing logistics etc.)
• Explores opportunities to optimize academic partnerships in service of efficiency, sustainability, organizational customization, and learner and teacher experience
• Acts as a point of contact/liaison with academic partners and collaborates with Nursing Education to navigate logistical and learner related issues, escalating within Sunnybrook as appropriate
• Supports continuous quality improvement, and alignment of academic program content to meet Sunnybrook’s needs
• Facilitates positive teacher and learner experiences through: optimizing faculty development and mentorship, facilitating transitions into and out of certificate programs, and supporting teacher recognition
• Receives feedback from learners/teachers/program & unit based content/subject matter experts, and collaborates to support improvements/adjustments for subsequent cohorts
• Collaborates closely with Human Resources Department to align sponsorship opportunities with recruitment and retention initiatives
• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure an effective process for learner access, training and corporate aspects of orientation
• Liaises and exchanges information regularly with leaders such as: Operations directors, Patient Care Managers, Advanced Practices Nurses/Clinical Educators
• Provides regular status updates to appropriate committees and other relevant stakeholders
• Participates as a member of the Nursing Leadership Team and attends key committees (e.g. Sunnybrook Education Advisory Council, Student Experience Committee)
• Participates in research/academic scholarship including disseminating outcomes and knowledge internally & externally (e.g. presentations, publications)
• Other duties as identified

Qualifications/Skills:

• Must be a Registered Nurse in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Critical care experience and familiarity with advanced continuing education programs/models such as the critical care certificate program strongly preferred
• Masters degree preferred  
• Education/adult learning certificate program preferred (Educator Development Program, etc.)  
• Leadership experience preferred (e.g. team leader, mentor, unit/program initiatives)
• Preceptor or Clinical Facilitator experience required
• Project experience or quality improvement leadership experience and/or education preferred (e.g. iLead)
• Excellent communication, problem solving & time management skills required