Senior Operating Officer — Program Director

Career opportunities are presented in the language received. We have two exciting roles with Assisted Living Alberta! Please see below. Senior Operating Officer – Community, Social Services Integration Your Opportunity: Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) is seeking an experienced senior leader to establish and lead a new province-wide portfolio focused on community and social services integration, social work, and system partnerships. As the Senior Operating Officer (SOO), Community, Social Services Integration and Partnerships, you will strengthen connections across healthcare, community, and social service sectors to support coordinated access, timely care transitions, and improved system outcomes. Reporting to the Executive Lead, Client Navigation and Integration, you will serve as a strategic leader, driving collaboration, enhancing community capacity, and advancing solutions that improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. In this executive leadership role, you cultivate strong relationships across healthcare, community, government, and social service organizations to improve access, care transitions, and coordinated service delivery. The SOO will manage and coach an overall team of approximately 850 positions across social work, partnerships, and integration functions. As the leader of this new and evolving portfolio, you will have a unique opportunity to influence system transformation by building sustainable partnerships, advancing coordinated access and outreach strategies, and embedding social determinants of health into planning and service delivery. To learn more, please visit: https://careers.albertahealthservices.ca/jobs/search/144237306 Program Director, Alternate Level of Care Centre of Expertise Your Opportunity: You’re an experienced leader with a clinical background who’s about thinking bigger – solving problems and making things better on a systems level. Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) is seeking a person like this who combines clinical or social work experience with leadership ability for the role of Program Director for the Alternate Level of Care Centre of Expertise (ALC/COE). The Program Director, ALC/COE is a management role responsible for implementing best practices for transition services, addressing systemic patient transition issues, and resolving complex transition cases. In this role, you will deliver advanced practice support and contribute ALC and transition expertise that informs and operationalizes provincial quality standards that strengthen clinical decision making and improve patient flow, transition experience, and outcomes. Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) provides Albertans with the support they need through a comprehensive assisted living system that offers a full range of services, including medical and non-medical supports, continuing care homes, home care, community care, and social services. ALA is focused on delivering care more effectively and consistently across the province by enhancing home and community services, expediting access to supportive living environments and continuing care homes, and ensuring Albertans and their caregivers are well-informed. To learn more, please visit: https://careers.albertahealthservices.ca/jobs/program-director-alternate-level-of-care-centre-of-expertise-587089

Lead province-wide portfolios focused on community and social services integration and the Alternate Level of Care Centre of Expertise. Drive system transformation by strengthening partnerships across healthcare and social sectors to improve patient flow and care transitions.

Requires experienced senior leadership capabilities with a background in clinical practice or social work. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to manage large teams and implement provincial quality standards for complex transition cases.

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• Strategic Leadership
• Community Integration
• Social Work
• System Partnerships
• Clinical Decision Making
• Patient Flow Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Program Management
• Healthcare Administration
• Change Management
• Care Transitions
• Resource Allocation
• Policy Implementation
• Public Health Planning
• Team Coaching
• Operational Excellence

• Healthcare
• Management & Leadership
• Social Services
• Government & Public Sector

Minimum experience

10+ years

Apply by

Sep 4, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Seniority

Director