Surveillance Program Manager

Role overview

Location and work model

• Hybrid work model.
• Locations listed include Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Halifax, St. John’s, Kelowna, Prince George, Montreal, and Quebec City.

Program delivery and publications

• Manage end-to-end implementation of cancer surveillance and data programs, including planning, coordination, monitoring, and knowledge translation.
• Maintain integrated workplans, production schedules, risk logs, and reporting processes.
• Manage Canadian Cancer Statistics Advisory Committee governance, meetings, agendas, minutes, action tracking, communications, and member nominations.
• Coordinate collaborator meetings, senior-collaborator meetings, and strategic working groups and subcommittees.
• Lead production of Canadian Cancer Statistics publications, special reports, and knowledge products from planning through publication and evaluation.
• Coordinate publication workflows with authors, reviewers, copyeditors, graphic designers, translators, and vendors.
• Support leadership with meeting follow-up, communications, presentations, conference abstracts, and reports.
• Improve project-management processes, standard operating procedures, templates, and tools; delegate administrative work and mentor staff.

Partnerships and administration

• Build and maintain relationships with federal agencies, academic collaborators, cancer registries, researchers, contractors, volunteers, people with lived experience, and internal teams.
• Support relationships with international collaborators, cancer registries, and global health organizations.
• Manage publication communications and engagement, including webinars, briefings, pre-release meetings, launch events, outreach, and dissemination.
• Prepare briefing notes, presentations, reports, committee materials, and executive updates.
• Manage budgets, contracts, invoices, expense claims, vendor agreements, procurement, and budget monitoring and forecasting.
• Maintain SharePoint resources, program records, and documentation; coordinate administrative processes and updates to cancer.ca and related channels.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, or a related field.
• PMP designation or equivalent project/program management certification.
• At least 5 years of job-related experience in progressively more senior positions.
• Experience managing complex multi-partner programs with multiple deliverables and timelines.
• Experience building partnerships across government, academia, and non-profit organizations; supporting committees or governance structures; and coordinating publications and reporting.
• Experience with budget administration and extensive experience developing plans, timelines, reports, and operational processes.
• Strategic and systems thinking; strong communication, customer service, relationship-building, attention to detail, and quality-management skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• French/English bilingualism is highly preferred; French is an asset and is required for roles based in Quebec.

Compensation

• Salary band 6 is listed as CAD 72,000–CAD 82,000; no pay cadence is stated.
• Benefits include paid parental leave, family sick time, and health insurance.

Application information

• The posting lists one current vacancy and requests a resume, cover letter, and salary expectations by October 27, 2026.