Program Manager - Client Concerns

Your Opportunity:

Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) is seeking a highly collaborative and influential leader to join the Program Excellence, Planning, Performance and Quality portfolio in a provincial role that directly impacts the experience, safety, and quality of life of Albertans receiving continuing care services. Reporting to the Director, Client Experience and Concerns, the Program Manager, Client Concerns provides strategic leadership and accountability for the portfolio across Alberta’s continuing care sector, including ALA-operated and contracted services. Working in close partnership with senior leaders, operators, and sector stakeholders, this role helps shape the provincial approach to identifying, assessing, and addressing client concerns while advancing a culture of quality, learning, and continuous improvement. The Program Manager leads a specialized provincial team and is responsible for setting strategic direction, governance, and priorities that support consistent, responsive, and person-centred processes across the sector. This position plays a key role in influencing system improvement by translating insights from client concerns into recommendations that strengthen policy, practice, education, and service delivery. Success in this role requires a skilled relationship builder who thrives in complex environments, can influence change across diverse stakeholder groups, and is passionate about enhancing client experience and outcomes. If you are a healthcare leader looking to make a meaningful impact at a provincial level, we encourage you to apply.

Description:

The Program Manager, Client Concerns provides leadership for provincial initiatives that aim to receive, assess and react to client concerns in Continuing Care settings and programs. The Program Manager ensures best practices and actions to understand and react to client concerns are encouraged and implemented across the Continuing Care sector. The position will identify organization priorities and set out action plans for implementation and evaluation. The Program Manager will work to scale and spread initiatives to process client concerns and encourage the identification of issues or concerns that impact client experience by connecting with clinical teams across the province. The position works with ALA-operated services, contracted providers and system partners to leverage ongoing initiatives to improve client experiences and identify new opportunities for improvement to reduce client-reported concerns. In addition, they will plan and implement formal communication networks to learn from assisted living operators and share lessons learned. In collaboration with the Program Manager, Client Experience and Quality of Life (QofL), the position will evaluate connections between trends in formal client concerns and actions that can work to address these concerns across the province, translating concerns into new practices

Required Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree in health administration, health sciences, nursing, allied health, education, business administration or a related health care discipline is required. Undergraduate education and professional preparation in a clinical health discipline is also a must for this position. An equivalent combination of clinical education and relevant experience may be considered. Minimum of three years of progressively responsible experience in a complex healthcare environment, including significant leadership experience in quality improvement, healthcare quality, system improvement or a related provincial or organizational function is required.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience providing strategic leadership for complex quality and safety functions spanning multiple programs, service settings, organizations or providers, including oversight of significant and highly sensitive quality and safety matters. Extensive knowledge of quality improvement, system-based approaches to organizational learning, governance and approaches to identifying and addressing systemic concerns and opportunities for improvement. Demonstrated leadership, judgment and relationship-management capability, including the ability to lead senior professionals, influence independent service providers and system partners, and navigate complex, sensitive issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in health administration, health sciences, nursing, allied health, education, business administration or related healthcare discipline. Certification or recognized professional development in healthcare quality, patient safety, accreditation or safety review methodologies.