Project Director, BORNConnect – Digital OPR+ , BORN Ontario, CHEO

For more than a decade, BORN Ontario (Better Outcomes Registry & Network) has played a pivotal role in advancing perinatal and child health across the province. As Ontario’s prescribed perinatal, newborn, and child registry, BORN enables high-quality, data-driven care by collecting, integrating, and translating critical health information to improve outcomes for pregnant and birthing individuals, infants, and families. Working in partnership with clinicians, researchers, health-system leaders, and community organizations, BORN serves as a trusted steward of sensitive health data, driving continuous quality improvement, informing policy, and supporting a learning health system that is foundational to the well-being of Ontarians.

With an ambitious agenda of digital modernization, strengthened governance, province-wide collaboration, and equitable care delivery, BORN Ontario is seeking a visionary and collaborative Project Director, BORNConnect – Digital Ontario Perinatal Record+ (OPR +) to lead one of the most significant digital health transformations in maternal–child care in Ontario’s history.

The Project Director (PD) works to steer and deliver the full lifecycle of the multi-year BORNConnect – digital OPR+ initiative, ensuring the creation of a modernized, interoperable digital perinatal record that enhances care quality and safety. The PD leads the scoping, design, development, testing, and implementation of the digital platform and its supporting standards. The PD establishes and guides robust governance structures that engage clinicians, technical partners, and provincial stakeholders in shaping project direction. In collaboration with the Project Medical Director, the PD executes a comprehensive clinical consultation and engagement strategy to inform functionality, adoption, and best practices. The PD advances provincial data standards and integration protocols and oversees the development of modern integration patterns and a FHIR–enabled architecture that supports seamless data exchange between EMRs including HIS systems. The PD directs privacy, security, and data stewardship activities to ensure safe, compliant information exchange. The PD leads pilot and go-live planning, monitors outcomes, evaluates impact, and drives continuous improvement. Collectively, the PD positions the BORNConnect – digital OPR+ for long-term provincial adoption, scale, and operational sustainability within Ontario’s connected care ecosystem.

As the ideal candidate, you are a strategic, innovative, and systems-oriented leader with deep experience delivering complex digital health or clinical transformation initiatives involving multiple partners and disciplines. You excel at mobilizing diverse constituent groups and partners, from clinicians and technical experts to policy leaders and community voices, bringing clarity, momentum, and adaptive thinking to large-scale, multi-phase programs. You lead with curiosity, empathy, and structured decision-making, and you communicate with credibility across clinical, technical, operational, and executive audiences. You thrive in environments that require both visionary strategy and disciplined execution, and you are skilled at advancing interoperability, data governance, privacy considerations, and evidence-informed design. Experience with digital health standards, clinical information systems, maternal–child health, or provincial health agencies will be considered strong assets.

If you are energized by the opportunity to help transform perinatal care in Ontario and lead a province-wide initiative that will improve the experience and outcomes of pregnant and birthing individuals, clinicians, and families, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and Cover Letter via the portal at boyden.thriveapp.ly/job/3116. For more information or questions, please contact Mike Young (myoung@boyden.com).

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