Senior Program Lead required to manage large-scale projects in Public Health environment. 159832

Our GTA based, Municipal Government client requires the services of a Senior Program Lead to manage large-scale projects in healthcare environment.

ROLE:

Our Client currently relies on the provincially mandated Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) for communicable disease (CD) surveillance and case/contact/outbreak management. Lack of desired and critical features limits effectiveness of the program, particularly in managing the increasing complexity and volume of cases such as measles contacts and institutional outbreaks. Some Ontario Public Health Units (PHUs) have developed parallel systems, leveraging electronic medical records (EMRs) or repurposing COVID-19 IT infrastructure. The specialist will assist our Client with exploring similar options to ensure continuity, efficiency, and compliance in CD surveillance and investigations.

Duties

• Coordinate cross-project activities and dependencies within and outside of the program

• Provide vendor and stakeholder management

• Resolve projects’ higher scope issues and act as the liaison between projects and the program director/senior management

• Prepare reports for program directors, senior management and executives as required

• Identify short-term solution for Client's consideration to address immediate challenges with managing communicable disease surveillance and case/contact/outbreak.

• Identify long-term options to modernize communicable disease surveillance and case/contact/outbreak management

• Review and synthesize existing documentation on provincial system(s) limitations and previous solution proposals.

• Engage with internal stakeholders to gather requirements.

• Recommend suitable strategies aligned with Program's long-term goals for digital solutions for managing communicable disease surveillance and case/contact/outbreak

MUST HAVE:

• Extensive experience managing large-scale projects and/or programs of significant complexity and value with high risk; including enterprise transformational IT projects, multistakeholder projects, in the public sector, preferably with experience in municipal and/or provincial digital health
• Experience evaluating and implementing third-party or SaaS healthcare solutions, conducting environmental and market scans, and fit-gap analysis
• Exposure to working with healthcare data, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems
• Considerable experience preparing or drafting project management plans and documents (e.g. statement of work, project charter, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), risk management plan, scope document, resource plan, project schedule, options analysis, financial documents).
• 5+ years of Program Leadership and/or Senior Project Management experience, exhibiting clear, practical knowledge of tools and techniques for planning, organizing, executing, monitoring and controlling complex IT projects.
• Experience working in a matrix project environment.