Senior Project Director

Position: Project Director - GOA

Rate: $128-$154/HR

Location: Remote/Hybrid

Closing Date: February 19th, 2026 8:00 AM MST

POSITION SUMMARY:

Role Description: Senior Project Director GOA/E-Health

Responsibilities:

Alberta is advancing an ambitious multi-year digital health modernization strategy to support a seamless, patient-centred healthcare experience. Key initiatives include Community Information Integration/Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR), Electronic Referral Solution (ERS), provincial EMR strategy and integration, and modernization of Electronic Health Record (EHR) viewing and clinical document systems. These projects require coordinated leadership, disciplined vendor management, and senior-level project oversight.

The Senior Project Director – eHealth Development provides senior portfolio-level direction, strategic coordination, and project oversight across multiple interdependent initiatives within the provincial eHealth ecosystem. The Director acts as a central integration point between clinical stakeholders, program leadership, IMT delivery teams, shared services partners, and vendors.

The Senior Project Director is responsible for ensuring alignment between business objectives, clinical workflows, technical requirements, interoperability frameworks, and policy directions.

Position Summary

Reporting to executive leadership, the Senior Project Director oversees complex, multi-year eHealth development initiatives and provides strategic oversight across a coordinated portfolio of digital health projects. The Director ensures alignment across clinical, business, technical, and vendor workstreams while driving program progress, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with internal partners (PPHS, AHS, AMA, CPSA, Shared Services organizations), clinical groups, external vendors, and cross-ministry teams to support the design, integration, and implementation of digital-health solutions across Alberta.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Program Leadership

• Provide senior oversight and integration across multiple eHealth initiatives, including:

o CII/CPAR

o Electronic Referral Solution (ERS)

o Provincial EMR Strategy & Integration

o EHR Viewer / Clinical Document Repository modernization

o Additional eHealth modernization workstreams as identified

• Develop and maintain coordinated portfolio plans, roadmaps, dependencies, and workstream alignment.

• Ensure business, clinical, and technical deliverables remain aligned with provincial strategies.

Strategic Development & Analysis

• Provide strategic input on policy, investment, and program direction related to digital-health modernization.

• Support development of Statements of Work, contract language, SLAs, pricing structures, and procurement artifacts.

• Ensure solution designs and workflows support interoperability, data quality, clinical utility, and adoption.

Vendor & Contract Management

• Manage relationships with EMR vendors, technology suppliers, and shared services partners.

• Oversee contract performance, deliverables, amendments, extensions, and compliance against requirements.

• Monitor vendor progress, escalate issues, and drive resolution to maintain schedule and quality.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead engagement with clinicians, professional associations, provincial partners, and regulatory bodies.

• Facilitate working groups, steering committees, and multi-stakeholder forums.

• Provide direction and support for change management, communications, and adoption strategies.

Governance, Reporting & Oversight

• Prepare executive briefings, presentation materials, project artefacts, and progress updates.

• Report on status, risks, mitigation strategies, resource allocations, and interdependencies.

• Ensure alignment with provincial architecture, IMT standards, and enterprise governance structures.

Mandatory Requirements (Minimum 10 years with ALL below)

• Demonstrated experience directly leading the negotiation, development, and management of complex, multi-vendor IT solutions at a regional, provincial, national, or equivalent enterprise scale, including accountability for contract value (equal to or exceeding $500,000), commercial terms, vendor coordination, performance management, risk mitigation, and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in roles requiring knowledge of the clinical and technological aspects of the primary health care domain at a regional, provincial, national, or equivalent health system level.
• Demonstrated experience in the strategic planning of regional, provincial, national, or equivalent enterprise-scale health information technology systems, including setting long-term direction, aligning initiatives to business and clinical priorities, and guiding the evolution of complex digital health environments.
• Demonstrated experience with clinical application integration to support the exchange of patient information, using provincial, national, or international interoperability standards within the Canadian eHealth environment.
• Senior leadership experience working with executive leadership to define, approve, resource, and govern large, multi-year projects or initiatives, including the development of roadmaps, governance structures, briefing materials, and business cases.
• Demonstrated experience applying knowledge of clinical concepts and care processes to inform the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of enterprise-scale clinical information systems.
• Demonstrated experience in oversight of portfolio governance and the development of portfolio management processes for large, complex healthcare initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading healthcare portfolios or multiple large-scale initiatives of similar size and complexity within complex health system environments.
• Experience with provincial, national, or international healthcare interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR) in the context of enterprise clinical system integration.
• Experience working for or with provincial health ministries, provincial health authorities, or comparable public-sector health organizations. (10 years)

Equipment requirements:

Contractor must provide own equipment

Working Hours:

Per worker model below this is a Hybrid role.

Working Hours/location:

• Standard Hours of work are 8:00 to 5:00 with a 1 hr lunch break Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the province.

• Location: … ATB Place- 17TH FL Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, AB 528

• This resource will primarily work remotely; however, the resource may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in office on reasonable notice from the Province. At the time of providing such notice, the Province will advise of the expected duration of any such meetings or work sessions. However, time to travel and any associated expenses to and from Edmonton and/or travel within Alberta will be at no cost to the Province. This will typically be once per quarter but may be adjusted depending on business needs

• Work must be done within Canada

Estimated Start Date: MAR 2026

Estimated End Date: MAR 2028

Rate Range: $128 - $154/hr

Based on Experience and Competitiveness