Senior Executive Director, Physician Services

Competition # : 50449

Department: Health and Wellness

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 29-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we’re committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.

About Our Opportunity

As the Senior Executive Director, Physician Services, you will be a member of the Department of Health and Wellness Executive team and a trusted advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister and the Deputy Minister. You will provide strategic leadership across a broad portfolio that supports the effective operation, transformation and sustainability of Nova Scotia’s health system.

You will lead key areas including corporate and business planning, health human resources, information technology, emergency management, administrative services and asset management. Working across the Department and with Nova Scotia Health, the IWK Health Centre, other government departments and external partners, you will ensure that people, resources, technology and corporate systems are aligned with health system priorities.

You will contribute to setting strategic objectives, policy direction and performance expectations and will help translate government priorities into coordinated plans and action. You will lead evidence-informed approaches to health workforce planning, corporate accountability and resource management while supporting timely, high-quality decision making at the most senior levels of government.

This is an opportunity to lead in a complex and evolving environment where collaboration, innovation and sound judgement are essential. You will build strong partnerships, bring together diverse perspectives and lead transformational change that strengthens health system performance and contributes to better health outcomes for Nova Scotians.

As Senior Executive Director, Physician Services, you will report to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Health and Wellness.

Primary Accountabilities

As the Senior Executive Director, you will provide executive leadership across a diverse portfolio of corporate and health system responsibilities. You will:

• Lead corporate strategic, operational and business planning and strengthen accountability, performance measurement and decision-making processes across the Department.
• Provide executive oversight of corporate services and assets, including information technology, occupational health and safety, records management, facilities, leases and administrative services, ensuring resources are effectively planned and managed.
• Lead the development and alignment of provincial health human resource strategies to support a sustainable workforce that responds to current and future health system needs.
• Work collaboratively with Nova Scotia Health, the IWK Health Centre, government and other system partners such as Doctors Nova Scotia on workforce planning, resource development and agreements that support the availability and accessibility of health professionals.
• Partner with technology leaders to advance health information and technology strategies that align investments and digital capabilities with broader health system priorities.
• Provide strategic advice, analysis and recommendations to the Deputy Minister, Minister and other senior government decision makers on complex, sensitive and high-profile matters.
• Build and strengthen partnerships across government and with health authorities, educational and research institutions, community organizations and other stakeholders to advance shared priorities.
• Lead organizational change and the effective management of divisional human and financial resources while fostering an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing workplace.
  
  

Qualifications and Experience

As an experienced senior leader, you bring a strategic and collaborative approach to leading within a large, complex and highly accountable environment. You demonstrate sound judgement, strong communication and relationship-building skills, and the ability to turn strategic priorities into meaningful results.

This may be the right opportunity for you if you have, at minimum, a bachelor's degree and considerable senior leadership experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

You have demonstrated experience in strategic and business planning, policy or strategy development and implementation, and the management of significant human and financial resources. Experience providing leadership in areas such as health system or workforce planning, corporate services, technology, asset or resource management, emergency management, or other complex public-sector environments would be considered an asset.

You are a strategic and innovative thinker with demonstrated success leading transformation and navigating complex issues involving competing priorities and diverse interests. You can provide clear, evidence-informed advice to senior decision makers and operate effectively within legislative, policy, financial and accountability frameworks.

Your ability to build trusted relationships is essential. You have demonstrated experience working across organizational boundaries and developing partnerships with senior leaders, government, stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams. You are an inclusive leader who develops people, builds shared commitment and creates an environment of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

We will assess the above qualifications and experience using tools such as presentations, interviews, reference checks, etc.

LEADS

The Government of Nova Scotia has adopted the LEADS Leadership Framework. During the interview, candidates will be expected to express how they have demonstrated the key behaviours and capabilities required to effectively lead in a caring and inclusive environment. LEADS Domains includes Leads Self, Engage Others, Achieve Results, Develop Coalitions and Systems Transformation.

Please follow LEADS (novascotia.ca) for more information.

Equivalency

Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

Based on the employment status, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.

Working Conditions

• Normal work week is 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day.
  
• May be required to work overtime on occasion.
  
  

What We Offer

• Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
• Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
• Countless career paths
• A dynamic, client-focused office environment where service excellence and teamwork are our focus.
  
  

Pay Grade:EC 16

Salary Range:$5,805.06 - $7,256.31 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement: Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians, Persons of African Descent, Racialized Persons, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ Persons and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

Accommodation Statement: We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

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PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

If you are receiving a pension from the Nova Scotia Public Service Superannuation Plan (PSSP) or any related plans, you cannot receive pension payments while contributing to the same plan. If you accept a position that requires PSSP contributions, your pension payments must be stopped. Please contact the Nova Scotia Pension Services Corporation for more information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. Where required, candidates must provide proof that they are legally entitled to work in Canada. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to [email protected].