Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Vice President, Research
Based in Vancouver, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), funded by the province of British Columbia, is BC's health research funding agency. MSFHR helps develop, retain and recruit the talented people whose research improves the health of British Columbians, addresses health system priorities, creates jobs and adds to the knowledge economy. Established in 2001, MSFHR is a key participant in BC's health research and life sciences ecosystem. The Foundation works as a trusted partner with government, the health research community and the health system to support better health outcomes through research and its translation into new treatments, cures, practices and solutions. MSFHR is now seeking an experienced research leader to fill the newly created position of Vice-President, Research .
Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President, Research will work in collaboration with the CEO to develop a research agenda for the Foundation that helps determine and also study what the Foundation funds, how it supports the translation of evidence into practice and policy, and how it strengthens the research system in which it works. The VP, Research will lead a high-performing team, including three directors and 18 staff, and will be responsible for the management and oversight of a portfolio that includes research competitions, knowledge translation, strategic planning, partnership, and evaluation & impact analysis. A senior leader both internally and externally, the VP Research forges relationships with government, academia, partners and other funders, the health system and the community to establish BC as a hub of world-class health research that attracts, supports, and retains talented researchers.
Our ideal candidate brings a PhD in health sciences with a minimum of ten years’ experience in health research systems. The incumbent is passionate about health research ecosystems, committed to enhancing the use of evidence in the work of funding agencies, and motivated to help build a strong, collaborative organizational culture. The preferred candidate has deep experience with funding agencies and a solid understanding of how health research and health care interface. They have demonstrated success as a leader of and mentor to staff at all levels along with an ability to inspire, influence, and motivate others. A skilled communicator, the incumbent is highly ethical with sound judgement and a focus on evidence-based decision making.
To explore this incredible opportunity further, please contact Esther McGregor or send your resume and related information to joanne.mcmullin@odgersberndtson.com . To submit your resume in confidence, please visit https://www.odgersberndtson.com/en/careers/15533 .
The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers Berndtson and MSFHR throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.
Mar 20, 2019
Full time
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Vice President, Research
Based in Vancouver, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), funded by the province of British Columbia, is BC's health research funding agency. MSFHR helps develop, retain and recruit the talented people whose research improves the health of British Columbians, addresses health system priorities, creates jobs and adds to the knowledge economy. Established in 2001, MSFHR is a key participant in BC's health research and life sciences ecosystem. The Foundation works as a trusted partner with government, the health research community and the health system to support better health outcomes through research and its translation into new treatments, cures, practices and solutions. MSFHR is now seeking an experienced research leader to fill the newly created position of Vice-President, Research .
Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President, Research will work in collaboration with the CEO to develop a research agenda for the Foundation that helps determine and also study what the Foundation funds, how it supports the translation of evidence into practice and policy, and how it strengthens the research system in which it works. The VP, Research will lead a high-performing team, including three directors and 18 staff, and will be responsible for the management and oversight of a portfolio that includes research competitions, knowledge translation, strategic planning, partnership, and evaluation & impact analysis. A senior leader both internally and externally, the VP Research forges relationships with government, academia, partners and other funders, the health system and the community to establish BC as a hub of world-class health research that attracts, supports, and retains talented researchers.
Our ideal candidate brings a PhD in health sciences with a minimum of ten years’ experience in health research systems. The incumbent is passionate about health research ecosystems, committed to enhancing the use of evidence in the work of funding agencies, and motivated to help build a strong, collaborative organizational culture. The preferred candidate has deep experience with funding agencies and a solid understanding of how health research and health care interface. They have demonstrated success as a leader of and mentor to staff at all levels along with an ability to inspire, influence, and motivate others. A skilled communicator, the incumbent is highly ethical with sound judgement and a focus on evidence-based decision making.
To explore this incredible opportunity further, please contact Esther McGregor or send your resume and related information to joanne.mcmullin@odgersberndtson.com . To submit your resume in confidence, please visit https://www.odgersberndtson.com/en/careers/15533 .
The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers Berndtson and MSFHR throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) has delivered major health service programs including Cancer, Women’s & Children’s Health, Emergency Health Services, and Mental Health & Substance Use Services across BC for over a decade. Working with five health authorities PHSA also has planned and coordinated many specialty health care services offering province-wide solutions that improve the health of British Columbians. PHSA has earned a reputation as a global employer of choice with a team of world-class experts.
PHSA received an even broader mandate from the BC government in summer 2018, that broadens PHSA’s provincial accountabilities to provide ‘on system of care’ across BC. In response to this mandate, this new role has been created. This new mandate affords a significant opportunity to drive system change that has not existed for 20 years. The new EVP will have the opportunity to be part of the executive team that will architect the exciting new provincial focus, or ‘one system of care’.
Reporting the President & CEO, the Executive Vice President, Provincial Clinical Service Delivery is responsible for providing overall executive leadership for province-wide quality delivery of major specialty clinical programs to all appropriate populations across B.C. including BC Cancer, BC Women’s Health, BC Children’s Health, BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services and BC Emergency Health Services. This is a high profile, influential and strategic role.
As the ideal candidate, you are a systems-thinking, strategically minded executive with over 15 years of recent, related experience working in large, complex academic heath care settings including 10 years in an executive leadership role. Your experience includes demonstrated knowledge of current best practices, quality improvement processes, and patient safety. Additional experience in a regional setting that includes multi hospital cute, complex ambulatory settings and community health settings is ideal.
Located in Vancouver, BC, this is a rare opportunity to provide provincial stewardship to a broad and highly impactful portfolio.
Mar 04, 2019
Full time
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) has delivered major health service programs including Cancer, Women’s & Children’s Health, Emergency Health Services, and Mental Health & Substance Use Services across BC for over a decade. Working with five health authorities PHSA also has planned and coordinated many specialty health care services offering province-wide solutions that improve the health of British Columbians. PHSA has earned a reputation as a global employer of choice with a team of world-class experts.
PHSA received an even broader mandate from the BC government in summer 2018, that broadens PHSA’s provincial accountabilities to provide ‘on system of care’ across BC. In response to this mandate, this new role has been created. This new mandate affords a significant opportunity to drive system change that has not existed for 20 years. The new EVP will have the opportunity to be part of the executive team that will architect the exciting new provincial focus, or ‘one system of care’.
Reporting the President & CEO, the Executive Vice President, Provincial Clinical Service Delivery is responsible for providing overall executive leadership for province-wide quality delivery of major specialty clinical programs to all appropriate populations across B.C. including BC Cancer, BC Women’s Health, BC Children’s Health, BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services and BC Emergency Health Services. This is a high profile, influential and strategic role.
As the ideal candidate, you are a systems-thinking, strategically minded executive with over 15 years of recent, related experience working in large, complex academic heath care settings including 10 years in an executive leadership role. Your experience includes demonstrated knowledge of current best practices, quality improvement processes, and patient safety. Additional experience in a regional setting that includes multi hospital cute, complex ambulatory settings and community health settings is ideal.
Located in Vancouver, BC, this is a rare opportunity to provide provincial stewardship to a broad and highly impactful portfolio.
Join one of Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals and Northeastern Ontario’s academic health sciences centre as Vice-President, Academic and Research Impact.
With 13 sites in Greater Sudbury and an additional 25 sites across the region where staff provides care and information technology supports, the purpose of HSN and HSNRI is to provide high quality health services, support learning and generate research that improves health outcomes for the people of Northeastern Ontario. We have 4,000 dedicated and resilient employees, 700 active volunteers, 500 highly-skilled medical staff and scientists and 2,100 learners per year including 228 students and residents of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).
As Vice-President, you will champion one the five key goals of the 2019-2024 Strategic Plan: to strengthen our academic and research impact. The aspiration is that we will progress as an academic health sciences centre, through regional, provincial, national and international collaborations. This new role brings together current teams from HSN and HSNRI totaling over 70 people involved in education and research activities with an annual budget exceeding $12 million.
You will be responsible for the achievement of outcomes 17 to 19 of the Strategic Plan. You can learn more about HSN and HSNRI at www.hsnsudbury.ca and about our Strategic Plan at www.yourhsn.ca .
You will lead an interdisciplinary leadership team composed of the:
HSNRI Scientific Director;
HSN Medical Director, Relationship with NOSM and the Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association;
HSN Medical Director, Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre;
Director, ICES North.
Your portfolio will also include the Office for the Promotion of Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA). OPERA will be composed of:
HSNRI managers and staff associated with clinical trials and research operations, research capacity and health innovation cluster, research compliance, bioinformatics and genomics and lab operations;
HSN managers and staff associated with the Library, the Simulation Lab, student placements as well as medical learner advisors.
You will be responsible for all HSNRI operations and the support to HSN’s 2,100 learners. You will optimize new state-of-art research and educational facilities such as HSNRI’s new $19 million HSNRI site opened in June 2017 and HSN’s $26 million Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre under construction.
You will be motivated to offer the best academic experience to learners and to provide exceptional support to medical staff and scientists in their academic and research efforts.
You will serve as resource-person to the HSNRI Board’s Research Committee, liaise with postsecondary education partners, research and economic development partners and represent HSN on the Research Committee of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO).
Leaders from Laurentian University, NOSM, Cambrian College and Collège Boréal will be involved in the annual performance goal setting and performance reviews for this role.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Committee of HSN and HSNRI reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer, you will also be responsible for a number of organizational-wide priorities including the achievement of targets set annually by the HSN Board as part of its Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).
The ideal candidate will have:
At least a master’s degree, a medical degree or other health professional terminal degree;
10 years of experience in leadership roles in academic health science centres, in postsecondary education or research organizations;
A successful track record designing research programs, securing external funding, administering research contracts, overseeing operations and leading teams;
A proven ability to engage proactively and earn the trust of internal clients such as medical staff, scientists, faculty and learners;
A proven ability to develop mutually beneficial and innovative partnerships with external stakeholders;
Experience in interacting with the private sector and with government decision-makers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels;
Exceptional communications and interpersonal skills and organizational savvy;
Experience at the director, associate vice-president, vice-president, CEO, assistant deputy minister, associate dean or dean levels;
Fluency in spoken and written English, fluency in French is an asset.
The full job description can be viewed on the HSN Careers Website.
The Search Committee will begin to review applications on March 19, 2019. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
We offer competitive salary and vacation, extended health and dental benefits, a pension plan through HOOPP and relocation allowance to assist with moving expenses.
Interested applicants are asked to apply directly to posting #19-0236 on the HSN Careers Website at hsnsudbury.ca/careers . External applicants can learn more about Sudbury by viewing the Relocating to Sudbury link on our careers portal.
Feb 28, 2019
Full time
Join one of Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals and Northeastern Ontario’s academic health sciences centre as Vice-President, Academic and Research Impact.
With 13 sites in Greater Sudbury and an additional 25 sites across the region where staff provides care and information technology supports, the purpose of HSN and HSNRI is to provide high quality health services, support learning and generate research that improves health outcomes for the people of Northeastern Ontario. We have 4,000 dedicated and resilient employees, 700 active volunteers, 500 highly-skilled medical staff and scientists and 2,100 learners per year including 228 students and residents of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).
As Vice-President, you will champion one the five key goals of the 2019-2024 Strategic Plan: to strengthen our academic and research impact. The aspiration is that we will progress as an academic health sciences centre, through regional, provincial, national and international collaborations. This new role brings together current teams from HSN and HSNRI totaling over 70 people involved in education and research activities with an annual budget exceeding $12 million.
You will be responsible for the achievement of outcomes 17 to 19 of the Strategic Plan. You can learn more about HSN and HSNRI at www.hsnsudbury.ca and about our Strategic Plan at www.yourhsn.ca .
You will lead an interdisciplinary leadership team composed of the:
HSNRI Scientific Director;
HSN Medical Director, Relationship with NOSM and the Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association;
HSN Medical Director, Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre;
Director, ICES North.
Your portfolio will also include the Office for the Promotion of Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA). OPERA will be composed of:
HSNRI managers and staff associated with clinical trials and research operations, research capacity and health innovation cluster, research compliance, bioinformatics and genomics and lab operations;
HSN managers and staff associated with the Library, the Simulation Lab, student placements as well as medical learner advisors.
You will be responsible for all HSNRI operations and the support to HSN’s 2,100 learners. You will optimize new state-of-art research and educational facilities such as HSNRI’s new $19 million HSNRI site opened in June 2017 and HSN’s $26 million Labelle Innovation and Learning Centre under construction.
You will be motivated to offer the best academic experience to learners and to provide exceptional support to medical staff and scientists in their academic and research efforts.
You will serve as resource-person to the HSNRI Board’s Research Committee, liaise with postsecondary education partners, research and economic development partners and represent HSN on the Research Committee of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO).
Leaders from Laurentian University, NOSM, Cambrian College and Collège Boréal will be involved in the annual performance goal setting and performance reviews for this role.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Committee of HSN and HSNRI reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer, you will also be responsible for a number of organizational-wide priorities including the achievement of targets set annually by the HSN Board as part of its Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).
The ideal candidate will have:
At least a master’s degree, a medical degree or other health professional terminal degree;
10 years of experience in leadership roles in academic health science centres, in postsecondary education or research organizations;
A successful track record designing research programs, securing external funding, administering research contracts, overseeing operations and leading teams;
A proven ability to engage proactively and earn the trust of internal clients such as medical staff, scientists, faculty and learners;
A proven ability to develop mutually beneficial and innovative partnerships with external stakeholders;
Experience in interacting with the private sector and with government decision-makers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels;
Exceptional communications and interpersonal skills and organizational savvy;
Experience at the director, associate vice-president, vice-president, CEO, assistant deputy minister, associate dean or dean levels;
Fluency in spoken and written English, fluency in French is an asset.
The full job description can be viewed on the HSN Careers Website.
The Search Committee will begin to review applications on March 19, 2019. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
We offer competitive salary and vacation, extended health and dental benefits, a pension plan through HOOPP and relocation allowance to assist with moving expenses.
Interested applicants are asked to apply directly to posting #19-0236 on the HSN Careers Website at hsnsudbury.ca/careers . External applicants can learn more about Sudbury by viewing the Relocating to Sudbury link on our careers portal.
