Competition # :   44659

Department :   Health and Wellness

Location :   HALIFAX

Type of Employment :   Permanent

Union Status : Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date :   13-Dec-24    ( Applications are accepted until 11 : 59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians.  Along with our partners, including Nova Scotia Health and the IWK Health Centre, we are committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, continuing care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.

The people who benefit from government programs and services come from all walks of life. It is important that the Department of Health and Wellness reflects the people that we serve – so we can deliver better, more accessible, and inclusive public services. We work hard to create an environment where different perspectives and experiences are valued. We are committed to helping diverse talent thrive.

About Our Opportunity

Achieving our strategic vision to provide more care, faster for Nova Scotians requires focusing our investments on the most important components of our health system. We need to ensure every dollar spent on healthcare delivers maximum value towards improving patient outcomes and system sustainability. Nova Scotians expect better healthcare. The Planning & Investment Team is working to make it happen right now.

As the Investment Coordinator you will be a key member of the Planning & Investment Team. Engaging closely with the broader team, you will lead the development of digital tools and interactive dashboards that will enable a strategic approach to health system investment planning and monitoring.  As someone who is passionate about ensuring a more robust and resilient healthcare system and improving healthcare for Nova Scotians, you will embed value for money processes within the tools you create to mature short- and long-term investment evaluation, and responsible and resilient health system direction setting. To do this, you will use your programming skills to take disparate sources of data and turn them into interactive tools, synthesizing strategic information, enabling colleagues to understand, visualize and action it. This will require an aptitude for innovative data story telling and a sufficient financial acumen to work with and understand, financial data.

Your skills collaborating with stakeholders will be critical to your success with the Planning and Investment Team. You will foster new relationships, expand on existing ones, and ensure that the expertise of partners is built into the overall investment portfolio strategy. In this position, you will enable the effective allocation of human and financial resources where it matters most to Nova Scotians, while ensuring investment alignment with the overall strategic vision and mission of the Department. As a result of your contributions to the Planning and Investment team, a more thoughtful approach to healthcare investment will be implemented, improving health delivery and health outcomes for Nova Scotians.

Primary Accountabilities

In this role you will :

• Use our healthcare databases to develop tools (dashboards, reports, etc.) that support the broader team and our partners in monitoring investments and their impact.
• Integrate value-based healthcare investment strategies into your tools to support short- and long-term planning and evaluation with our partners to improve patient outcomes and health system sustainability.
• Use data visualization and story telling tools and techniques leveraging Tableau or Power BI and apply your core competencies in scripting programming languages (SQL, R, Python, STATA, etc.).
• Support the team by providing investment indicators to monitor, measure and assess risk, impact, and progress of system performance relative to investments made.
• Produce regular, planned vs. actual progress reports and forecasts, with respect to the portfolio overall, as well as strategic initiatives within the portfolio.
• Use financial acumen to provide recommendations for system strategy, standards, and policy.
• Contribute to a departmental culture of evidence-informed decision making and promote continuous learning and inquiry.
• Plan and lead consultation amongst the health system partners to strengthen and enhance understanding of strategic investment principals.
• Develop and formalize collaborative relationships within each investment stream of the overall portfolio.

Qualifications and Experience

We recognize that everyone brings different skills and experiences to the table and that not everyone “checks all the boxes”. So, apply anyway! Tell us why you’re the right fit for the job.

As the successful candidate, you possess a Bachelor’s degree with several years of progressive experience in a related field, or a post-secondary degree in a related discipline (economics, mathematics, statistics, finance, business administration, computer science etc.). A Master’s degree would be considered an asset.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Additional skills include :

You share our values of Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Accountability & The Public Good, have a passion for service excellence and actively promote and encourage the importance of people, teams, diversity, and culture.

The Government of Nova Scotia has adopted the LEADS Leadership Framework.  During the interview, candidates will be expected to express how they have demonstrated the key behaviours and capabilities required to effectively lead in a caring and inclusive environment. LEADS Domains includes Leads Self, Engage Others, Achieve Results, Develop Coalitions and Systems Transformation.

Please follow LEADS (novascotia.ca) for more information.

We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools : written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

Equivalency

An equivalent combination of training, education and experience will be considered. Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

The Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan , Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs.  For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here : Benefits for government employees .

What We Offer

Pay Grade :   EC 11

Salary Range :   $3,351.92 - $4,189.95 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement :

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve.  The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented.  If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

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PLEASE NOTE : Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to

[email protected].