Healthy Places Manager - Jobs in Calgary, AB

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Your Opportunity:The Healthy Places Manager is a key leadership role in the Healthy Settings Department of Promoting Health, Provincial Population and Public Health, and reports directly to the Director - Healthy Settings. This position is provincial in scope and accountable for: making key decisions and providing direct leadership in establishing and contributing to the goals and activities of Healthy Settings and Promoting Health; collaborating with teams across Healthy Settings, as well as Promoting Health, and leading the scale and spread of provincial Healthy Settings initiatives to workplaces, communities and in future to health services, virtual and home settings across Alberta; working closely with the Manager of School Health and Wellness Promotion to seek integration opportunities within and external to Promoting Health; providing leadership on how to align resources and identified priorities with internal and external partners; aligning logic models, evaluation plans and key performance indicators across Healthy Settings teams as needed.Description:As the Healthy Places Manager, you will have a broad understanding of the Social Determinants of Health, Risk and Protective factors that influence health within Community and Workplace environments (Health Services, Virtual and Home in future). You will set priorities based on the assessed health trends and lead a multidisciplinary provincial team in the scale and spread of evidence-informed, population health promotion strategies to improve health outcomes. You will maintain collaborative partnerships with both internal and external content experts and partners to influence policy change, leverage resources, increase capacity and ensure the planning of effective, coordinated, efficient province-wide core population health programs related to Community and Workplace (Health Services, Virtual and Home in future). You and your team will scale and spread guidelines, strategies and policies through the Healthy Places Website in collaboration with zone Health Promotion Facilitators and other provincial programs. You will liaise with provincial and zone teams to develop relationships and leverage opportunities for collaboration. You will function as a settings expert consultant to internal and external partners influencing the development and implementation of Community, Workplace, Health Services, Virtual and Home programming across the province. You will plan, allocate, and manage physical, human, and fiscal resources for the Healthy Places team, and assess resource requirements to meet program delivery needs and priorities. You will provide management and oversight of the evaluation for the Healthy Settings initiatives. You will engage in knowledge development and exchange, evaluation, continuous quality improvement and innovation to continually evolve this area.

• Classification: Program Lead
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Healthy Settings Department, Promoting Health, Provincial Population and Public Health
• Primary Location: Southport
• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Negotiable Location: Within Calgary Zone
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 22-NOV-2022
• Date Available: 19-DEC-2022
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $40.32
• Maximum Salary: $69.09
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:Master’s degree in a health-related field (e.g., Master’s in Public Health, Population Health Management, Community Health Sciences, Population Health, or Health Promotion). A minimum of 5-10 years in a leadership and program planning role, ideally in an organization of significant size, complexity and diversity. Progressive leadership experience in a health environment, including 3-5 years of experience in a management role in population and public health. Demonstrated management in leading teams to develop and implement population and public health interventions that take an upstream approach. Demonstrated leadership in health equity, evaluation, monitoring, performance management monitoring systems, and quality improvement. A demonstrated clear pattern of professional and personal development.Additional Required Qualifications:Effective communicator with strong organizational skills, influential skills, client focused orientation and commitment to providing quality services. Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching, mentoring, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Demonstrated ability to develop strategies and establish priorities to meet the short- and long-term operational needs. Demonstrated effectiveness in the ability to initiate, implement and support new or modified approaches, practices and processes in a changing environment. Demonstrated ability to engage key partners and stakeholders in change management process, understand the impact on both internal and external stakeholders and manage risks and benefits accordingly. Ability to manage human, financial, and physical resources within an operating environment. Proven ability to foster partnerships and to achieve organizational goals within an organization and managing within a unionized sector. Strong track record in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external partners. Excellent analytical and decision-making skills. Ability to plan, organize and manage short- and long-term plans and projects and deliver customer-focused results. Ability to foster a climate of cooperation amongst, and build solid relationships, with public agencies, government, committees and other partners.Preferred Qualifications:As required.Quick Apply

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