Director

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Establish frameworks, governance, and processes to assess, monitor, and evaluate contracted and funded services.
• Oversee service quality, return on investment, compliance, risk management, performance measures, and system outcomes.
• Coordinate consistent performance and funding oversight across corporate functions.
• Equip operational leaders to manage providers, funding agreements, and service expectations.
• Advance transparent reviews, long-term planning, and informed decisions aligned with strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Finance, Legal, Evaluation, and Health Shared Services.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health, business, policy, social sciences, or a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
• At least five years leading contracted-services oversight, grant administration, or program planning and delivery in a complex health-care setting.
• Experience advising executive leaders and leading financial management, team development, performance management, and mentorship.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving ability; can interpret complex information, identify trends and risks, and produce practical solutions.
• Can balance priorities, meet timelines, build stakeholder relationships, and communicate and present exceptionally well.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, efficiency, process optimization, and innovation; demonstrated transformational change leadership.
• Demonstrated pattern of professional and personal development.

Preferred qualifications

• Education or certification in health systems leadership, change management, finance, contract management, procurement, project management, or program/service planning is preferred.
• Experience with addiction, mental health, or correctional health services and working knowledge of Recovery Alberta programs, policies, and processes are preferred.

Work arrangement

• Primary location is Southport; the posting states eligibility to work remotely within Alberta and a negotiable provincial location.

Employment and schedule

• Regular full-time, exempt role; day shifts, 7.75 hours per shift, with 10 shifts per two-week cycle and Saturdays and Sundays off.

Compensation

• Minimum and maximum salary figures are listed as $57.07 and $100.39; the posting does not state a pay period.