CORe Lead, AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Health Shared Services (HSS) is seeking a Clinical Operational Readiness (CORe) Lead to join the Clinical Operations Informatics Office (COIO), supporting Digital Health provincially for AI (Artificial Intelligence) informatics. Connect Care is Alberta’s provincial electronic health record, integrating more than 1,300 independent systems into a single platform to enhance patient safety, care quality, and operational efficiency. Clinical workflows, build design are central to patient care delivery and require strong governance, safety oversight, holistic awareness of system impacts, and close coordination across clinical, operational, and digital teams. This leadership role is critical to ensure AI enabled workflows are standardized, safe, operationally effective, and consistently supported across all care settings. The position provides informatics leadership for enterprise initiatives, ensuring digital systems and workflows are optimized, safe, and effectively adopted by operational teams. There is flexibility regarding work location within Alberta, and candidates from across the province are encouraged to apply. Provincial travel may be required.

The Clinical Operational Readiness (CORe) Lead is a leadership role within the COIO team, with a provincial scope, reporting directly to the Executive Director. This is a leadership position with direct reports, accountable for coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to build subject-matter expertise, strengthen change leadership capability, and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes. The successful candidate is an expert in organizational change management, with a proven track record leading large-scale transformational initiatives. The role focuses on the collaborative design of informatics workflows that function cohesively within an integrated digital health ecosystem. The CORe Lead provides strategic leadership and operational readiness oversight for functionality within Connect Care.

Minimum 10 years of progressive responsibility leading organizational change for programs or organizations of significant size and complexity, including leadership experience Demonstrated experience leading teams, including coaching, mentoring, and performance management Strong understanding of change management principles and methodologies Specialized experience in project management, workflow design, and process improvement Experience applying structured change management and evaluation approaches Certifications related to leadership, management, or change management (e.g., PROSCI) Excellent communication, facilitation, and consensus‑building skills

As Required.

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in a Health‑Related Field Professional background in Clinical Informatics Experience with Epic Orders in a variety of clinical contexts Experience preparing executive‑level briefing materials and decision documents