Senior Project Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, implement, evaluate, and sustain the transformation initiative.
• Develop project plans, communication and education plans, operational resources, evaluation frameworks, and reporting processes.
• Collaborate with operational leaders, clinicians, communications and analytics teams, frontline staff, contracted providers, and external partners.
• Lead organizational readiness and change-management activities and support staff and leadership education.
• Identify practice and workflow improvements and embed caregiver-centered approaches in assessment, care planning, communication, and transitions.
• Represent Assisted Living Alberta in meetings with academic, healthcare, and government stakeholders.
• Meet deliverables, timelines, reporting requirements, and funding obligations.
• Translate strategy, stakeholder feedback, and data into practical recommendations for sustainable change.

Required qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public administration, nursing, or a related field.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare operations or a comparable complex service environment.
• Experience in multi-site or multi-service operations and leading complex projects or operational initiatives.
• Documented professional development in project management, quality improvement, and/or change management.
• Leadership experience in strategic planning, project management, quality improvement, implementation planning, and project evaluation.
• Experience managing issues and risks, facilitating multi-stakeholder groups, and resolving operational or service-delivery challenges.
• Demonstrated communication skills, including preparing reports and presentations and engaging diverse stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in continuing care, seniors' services, or similar community-based or long-term care environments.
• Leadership where project resources did not report directly to the position.
• Experience with structured problem-solving or change-management approaches such as Lean, PDSA, DMAIC, or Prosci/ADKAR.

Work arrangement

• Eligible for hybrid work and may be based anywhere in Alberta.
• FTE is 1.00; listed schedule is day shifts, 7.75 hours per shift, with Saturday and Sunday off.

Compensation

• Listed minimum salary is CAD 38.73 and maximum salary is CAD 66.42; the description does not specify the pay cadence.