Job Opportunity - Senior Policy Lead, at Island Health

**This is being posted on behalf of Myrianne Richard (Manager, Healthy Public Policy and Strategy with Population and Public Health at Island Health). All queries should be sent to: myrianne.peloquinrichard@islandhealth.ca.

Planning Analyst (hiring for two positions)

Working hours: 8:30 - 4:30 pm; 75 hours bi-weekly

Work location: To Be Determined - BC V8R 1J8 CA (Primary)

Travel requirement: Travel between multiple sites may be required

Vancancy type: Regular full-time

Paid FTE: 1.0

Salary: $44.31 - $63.69 /hour

Planned Start Date: January 20, 2024

Application closing date: January 8, 2024

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In accordance with the Vision, Purpose, and Values, and strategic direction of the Vancouver Island Health Authority (Island Health), patient and staff safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone; as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

Reporting to the Manager of Healthy Public Policy (HPP), the Senior Policy Lead provides regional leadership on policy advocacy, analysis, and monitoring to support the advancement and impact of health promotion work across the Island Health region. Working closely with Medical Health Officers, Directors and staff of the Office of the Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) and Vice President (VP), this role is responsible for leading the co-creation, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of Regional Healthy Public Policy initiatives. At the direction of Medical Health Officers, the Executive Director of Population Health, or HPP Manager, HPP Leads provide expertise in thematic areas of core concern to public health, and seeks to influence the development, mobilization, and adoption of healthy public policy within and through key sectors and settings across the Island Health region. These include but are not limited to: government, non-governmental organizations, private sector, schools and other early childhood environments, and other sectors and settings as identified.

Qualifications:

Education, training and experience

Master's Degree in Public Policy, Public Health, Public Administration, Law, Planning, Urban Health or another relevant field with five (5) to seven (7) year's recent, related experience that includes managing large-scale projects (including policy research development, advocacy initiative and strategic planning and deployment projects) and facilitating and managing consultation processes with a wide range of stakeholder groups. Current registration with relevant professional College/Association, if applicable. Excellent communication skills to function within a complex interdisciplinary environment including ability to communicate with senior members of government including federal, provincial and municipal. Computer literacy with word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, project management and database applications.

Skills and abilities:

Role specific expertise

• Demonstrated strong knowledge, skills and experience in public policy development, applied strategic research methodologies, and affecting social change and organizational change.
• Demonstrated broad knowledge of population health, social, environmental, and behavioural determinants of health.
• Demonstrated applied knowledge of social, economic, political and health trends and statistics.
• Demonstrated knowledge of urban, rural and regional planning and policymaking processes, urban politics, advocacy and activism.
• Demonstrated current and up-to-date knowledge of policies, programs, funding streams, capacity building opportunities, community and industry interventions, events, campaigns and other relevant considerations as related to population health.
• Considerable experience leading and coordinating working groups and steering and advisory committees, which may include senior internal and external stakeholders, senior personnel from other departments, dedicated project team staff and consultants, in the development, implementation and monitoring of strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct rapid policy reviews, memos, and other internal communication materials.
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategic efforts, manage conflict, and to exercise a high degree of judgment and independence toward delivery of outcomes.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge, skills and experience in project management principles and methodologies, including the ability to set and adapt to changing priorities in a complex, fast paced work environment, and ability to coach other team members on these skills.
• Demonstrates thorough understanding, and experience engaging, available resources for projects and relevant stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize initiative, vision, independent thinking and creative problem-solving abilities to implement project plans and realize project completion.
• Demonstrated ability to provide strong feedback and detailed analysis on project processes, and make recommendations as required.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize effective facilitation, persuasion and negotiation abilities to achieve consensus, resolve conflict and achieve desired outcomes.
• Works effectively under time pressure to meet deadlines, balance work priorities, and resolve problems to achieve deliverables and outcomes in a timely manner.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Link to Full Job Description: https://jd.viha.ca/JD5463.pdf

Additional information for applicants:

One position can be located anywhere in the South Island, the second position can be located anywhere in the North/Central Island Region.

Additional Clauses:

Vaccination Notification: To keep our employees, clients and the communities we serve safe, Island Health is enforcing an employee mandatory vaccination policy which is intended to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. As such, Island Health requires Proof of BC Provincial Immunization Registration as a condition of employment, and any offers of employment are contingent on you providing proof of vaccination prior to commencement of the offered effective date. If an offer of employment is extended, but proof of vaccination is not provided, the offer will be rescinded

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