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THE JOB: Director, Facility Engagement (18 Month Contract)

The starting salary range falls within the minimum to mid-point of the salary range.

Starting Salary Range: $141,029- $176,286

Reporting to the Vice President of the Specialist Services Committee (VP, SSC), the Director of Facility Engagement provides overall leadership, management, and budget oversight of the SSC’s Facility Engagement Initiative. As a key decision-maker, the role holds a high level of trust and responsibility, working with physicians, health authority leaders, and the Ministry of Health to advance the Physician Master Agreement’s Memorandum of Understanding on Regional and Local Engagement. The Director of Facility Engagement will collaborate with SSC, SCC and Strategic Initiatives, FPSC and Economics, Advocacy and Negotiations leaders to collaboratively deliver on the objectives of the SSC and Facility Engagement work plans, and Doctors of BC strategic plan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts as the chief steward of the Facility Engagement work plan, leading strategic planning, program management and budget oversight to achieve the objectives of the Physician Master Agreement’s Memorandum of Understanding on Regional and Local Engagement and the Doctors of BC strategic plan.
• Acts as the staff lead of the SSC Facility Engagement Working Group, which is comprised of Doctors of BC physician representatives and Ministry of Health and health authority representatives and provides provincial governance of the Facility Engagement Initiative including annual work plan approvals, funding approvals, and input into key program priorities.
• Provides strategic leadership on program development, evaluation, operations, funding policies, issue management, and relationship management with physicians and health authorities.
• Collaborates strategically with SSC, SCC and Strategic Initiatives, FPSC and Economics, Advocacy and Negotiations leaders to advance the objectives of the SSC and Facility Engagement work plans, and Doctors of BC strategic plan.
• Partners with SSC staff to strengthen collaboration between SSC initiatives and portfolios within a cohesive strategy that advances SSC’s mandate and brings a specialty care system lens to decision-making within the organization.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Leading Through People (A):

• Builds high-performing teams that are collaborative, non-competitive and are constantly seeking win-win opportunities.
• Works with team(s) to effectively identify goals and create individual development plans.
• Identifies, mentors, and raises the profile of future high performers and leaders.
• Cultivates a strength-based team mentality while facilitating open dialog about potential weaknesses. Recognizes employee potential and ensures all team members have equitable access to development opportunities.

Leading through Vision (A):

• Fosters a team’s mentality of seeking continuous performance feedback to identify and address potential blind spots.
• Actively acknowledges and rewards creativity and out of the box thinking while accounting for unique learning styles.
• Effectively monitors and boosts team’s self-esteem levels through authentic praise and specific recognition to ensure team members are engaged and personally invested.
• Partners with other change agents to identify and implement opportunities for significant process enhancements.

Leading to Deliver (A):

• Ensures team makeup supports decision making based upon relevant analysis of data as a necessary skillset. Continuously evaluates progress as a team to identifies potential weaknesses and facilitate productive conversation and steps for improvement.
• Establishes clear service expectations and effectively identifies what can be salvaged in setbacks, learned from and leveraged as opportunities.
• Ensures individuals are aware of all expectations and held accountable in a timely manner for their actions. Communicates a collective purpose, creates a clear line of sight to the organization’s values, and ensures team’s alignment with the organization’s goals and strategies.

Leading with Drive (A):

• Views obstructions as potential opportunities.
• Understands and openly discusses learning preferences within the team, remaining conscious of each member’s preferred communication style.
• Ensures team remains focused on goals, energized for the outcomes and accountable for their work and personal energy.
• Displays courageousness in speaking to potentially unpopular points that are grounded in sound business logic.

Doctors of BC Team Member:

Approaches work with a collaborative spirit recognizing we are better together. Embraces change, provides excellence in service and is accountable for their results and helping others achieve theirs. Does the right thing, not the easy thing. Speaks openly and honestly to tackle tough challenges and enrich relationships. Balances hard work with fun and is genuinely friendly and committed to other’s wellbeing.

WHAT YOU BRING

• A minimum of 7+ years’ experience in a senior leadership and operational role.

• A Master’s degree in a related area is an asset.

• Demonstrated leadership capability to provide vision, direction and alignment for a provincially distributed team with clear expectations and the appropriate tools and training to meeting those expectations.

• Ability to promote, maintain, and influence strategic relationships with senior physician, health authority and Ministry of Health leaders.

• Ability to communicate and interact with diplomacy and respect across diverse cultures, negotiating and influencing within a collaborative framework.

• Excellent facilitation, conflict resolution, change management, and communication skills.

• Excellent financial stewardship.

• Ability to analyze trends, problems and opportunities and develop and implement innovative strategies and solutions.

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and written skills, with proven ability to develop clear, concise and comprehensive written reports.

• Proficient computer skills required (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).

• Respect, professionalism, compassion, courage, and self-awareness.

  Doctors of BC thanks all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

  Doctors of BC recognize the pervasive and ongoing harms of colonialism faced by Indigenous peoples and that these harms include the widespread systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in BC's health system. Physicians have a significant role to play in addressing the health disparities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients, and Doctors of BC is committed to continuing to advance reconciliation and address and eliminate racism in health care.

  Doctors of BC celebrates diversity, challenges inequality and is committed to sustaining an inclusive and diverse community. We seek qualified applicants who share our commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion, and truth and reconciliation. We especially welcome applications from persistently and historically oppressed groups, including Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, gender-diverse, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+.

  We acknowledge that the land Doctors of BC operates and supports physicians from is the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations whose historical relationship with the land continues today. For Doctors of BC, acknowledging the land is an expression of cultural humility that involves recognizing our commitment to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.