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IWK Health is an internationally recognized and respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary, secondary, and primary care for two million women, children, youth and families across the Maritime provinces. As outlined within IWK’s launch of the most recent 2024-2027 Strategy: “The Road Forward” they look forward to delivering on their priorities as a future-focused, responsive and agile organization and continue their journey on the path toward their purpose and aligned with their values, “to passionately pursue a healthy future with women, children, youth and families in all their diversity through excellence in care; research and innovation; and applied learning.”
The Opportunity
To help drive innovation and advance system transformation, IWK Health is seeking a Vice President, Clinical Support and System Integration to lead key clinical support and people strategies across the organization. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing IWK’s vision while contributing to the delivery of specialized care for women, children, youth, and gender-diverse populations across the Maritimes.
You will oversee a team of 860+ staff and an $87.7 million operating budget, while championing best practices, clinical innovation, and initiatives to improve health outcomes across a range of IWK’s clinical portfolios. You will also lead the IWK’s people services strategy, covering workforce planning, health human resources, compensation, and labour relations, while fostering a culture of wellness, safety, and inclusion.
A key mandate of this role is advancing IWK’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Accessibility (EDIRA) Strategy, ensuring a respectful and equitable environment for patients and staff. You will work closely with provincial partners and align IWK’s efforts with broader system goals, including those outlined in the province’s Action for Health plan.
Key Areas of Responsibility
As Vice President, you will have oversight and accountability for:
- Organizational strategic leadership
- Provincial leadership, partnerships and relationships
- Health human resources, talent management, employee engagement and learning
- Quality service delivery and system performance
- Responsible stewardship
The Ideal Candidate
You are a seasoned executive leader with a graduate degree in a related field and a strong track record of driving change in complex, multi-partner health care environments. You have demonstrated exceptional leadership agility in your oversight of complex and diverse clinical and operational portfolios. Strategic and collaborative, you excel at system-level transformation, people leadership, and building strong partnerships. You bring experience leading large teams and budgets and are equally comfortable shaping long-term policy and managing day-to-day performance.
With a solid background in health human resources and talent strategy, ideally in unionized settings, you are skilled in workforce planning, engagement, and labour relations. You lead with integrity, champion equity and inclusion, and foster safe, healthy, and inclusive workplaces.
You have worked closely with government and system partners, advised senior executives and boards, and delivered on high-impact initiatives aligned with provincial health priorities. Values-driven and future-focused, you share IWK’s commitment to delivering specialized care that meets the unique needs of women, children, youth, and families.
If you’re interested in this opportunity, contact Andrea Forbes Hurley at aforbeshurley@kbrs.ca, Daniella Sam at dsam@kbrs.ca, or Erin MacDonald at emacdonald@kbrs.ca or submit your application online at: https://www.kbrs.ca/Career/17478543337860000008geh.
KBRS will also provide support in this recruitment process to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant’s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation to participate as a candidate in the recruitment process, please contact accommodate@kbrs.ca.
Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years. We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country.
Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.
