Associate Manager

Your Opportunity:

The Associate Manager of the Ambulatory Oncology and Radiation Therapy (RT) Review Clinics provides operational and clinical leadership for teams working within the Arthur Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre. This role is responsible for advancing patient and family centered care, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services, and supporting capacity planning to maintain timely access for patients requiring care. The Associate Manager leads workforce optimization initiatives and provides direction to multidisciplinary teams to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time, from the right provider and care team. The role is accountable for operational planning, resource management, and the coordination of clinic activities to support efficient, effective, and patient-focused care delivery. Reporting directly to the Manager of the Ambulatory Oncology and RT Review Clinics, the Associate Manager serves in a key clinical leadership capacity. The successful candidate will provide strategic direction, team leadership, and operational oversight for clinic activities, ensuring alignment with the vision, mission, values, and business objectives of Cancer Care Alberta. This position is accountable for unit-level decision-making and has direct leadership responsibility for achieving operational, clinical, and strategic goals within the Ambulatory Oncology and RT Review Clinics. The Associate Manager fosters a culture of excellence, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability while supporting staff, patients, and families in achieving optimal outcomes.

Description:

The Associate Manager of the Ambulatory Oncology and Radiation Therapy (RT) Review Clinics provides operational and clinical leadership for teams working within the Arthur Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre. This role is responsible for advancing patient and family centered care, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services, and supporting capacity planning to maintain timely access for patients requiring care. The Associate Manager leads workforce optimization initiatives and provides direction to multidisciplinary teams to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time, from the right provider and care team. The role is accountable for operational planning, resource management, and the coordination of clinic activities to support efficient, effective, and patient-focused care delivery. Reporting directly to the Manager of the Ambulatory Oncology and RT Review Clinics, the Associate Manager serves in a key clinical leadership capacity. The successful candidate will provide strategic direction, team leadership, and operational oversight for clinic activities, ensuring alignment with the vision, mission, values, and business objectives of Cancer Care Alberta. This position is accountable for unit-level decision-making and has direct leadership responsibility for achieving operational, clinical, and strategic goals within the Ambulatory Oncology and RT Review Clinics. The Associate Manager fosters a culture of excellence, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability while supporting staff, patients, and families in achieving optimal outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in nursing or a related health discipline required. Minimum of two years of management/leadership experience in a unionized healthcare environment. Current professional registration in good standing with the applicable regulatory body. Demonstrated leadership, strategic planning, and operational management experience in a high-volume academic healthcare centre. Exceptional interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills. Proven leadership abilities, including complex decision-making, coaching, mentoring, team development, and the capacity to inspire confidence and engagement in others. Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change, drive innovation, and develop effective solutions to complex and diverse challenges. Strong commitment to fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and patient-centered culture.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Formal change management training/certification with demonstrated experience leading and supporting teams through complex change initiatives. Exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder engagement skills. Proven ability to effectively manage human, financial, and physical resources while ensuring accountability, efficiency, and quality performance. Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships and achieving organizational objectives through collaboration, influence, and relationship management, including experience working within unionized environments. Plays a key leadership role in facilitating effective communication and collaboration among internal teams, provincial programs, external partners, and organizational stakeholders to support operational excellence and patient-centered care.

Preferred Qualifications: