Leadership Development, Program Manager

For over 75 years, Medavie Blue Cross has been a leading health and wellness partner for individuals, employers and governments across Canada.

As a not-for-profit organization, we proudly invest in communities to help address some of Canada’s most pressing health care challenges.

We are one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Life & Health Insurer of the Year for 2021 and an Imagine Canada Caring Company.

Our 2,400 professionals work across six provinces, united by our shared values of being caring, accountable, responsible, innovative and community-minded.

We’re committed to ensuring our employees thrive in our award-winning, collaborative culture focused on ensuring health, wellness, and personal and professional growth through a variety of programs and support across our organization.

Together with Medavie Health Services, we are part of Medavie a national health solutions partner with over 7,700 employees.

Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians.

Job Title : Leadership Development, Program Manager Department : Talent and Communications Competition : 86942 Internal / External : Both Employment Type : Full Time Permanent Location : Remote Salary : Comprehensive Compensation Reports To : Director, Organizational Development

Summary

The Leadership Development, Program Manager supports the Director of Organizational Development to plan and execute on the overall organizational talent development strategy and priorities.

You will be responsible for the design, development, delivery and advancement of Medavie’s leadership development strategy including learning journeys, solutions, tools and assessments.

Through related development programs and projects, you will ensure that individuals and teams elevate their leadership capabilities to support company’s goals, organizational culture, and values.

As a Program Manager, you will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, HR partners and Business Segment Leaders to ensure high-quality implementation of strategies and solutions to build a robust and diverse leadership pipeline.

You will provide thought leadership to corporate programs design and delivery including but not limited to leadership development and learning and you will be integral to supporting key talent management initiatives linked to Performance Management, Career Development, and Succession Planning.

Key responsibilities

• Champion the Medavie Values and develop, lead and grow our Leadership Development strategy by offering programs tailored to specific leadership needs, whether they are emerging, new, existing or experienced leaders.
• Oversee the continual establishment of objectives, planning, development, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of leadership development journeys, programs, and solutions that will support the desired organizational culture, drive high-level performance and achieve business outcomes.
• Act as a Project Manager in the deployment of leadership development programs and corporate events, which include creating annual delivery calendars, project plans, resource planning, and budget management.
• Offer guidance and expertise to key stakeholders to identify leadership development needs and design solutions, programs, and tools that are fit for purpose.
• Create with subject matter experts, training vendors / consultants high-quality, innovative learning experiences, training content, and capability solutions for the organization, using both traditional and emerging methods with a strong emphasis on sustainability.
• Manage relationships with third-party vendors / suppliers as required to source and deliver on the leadership development services roadmap.
• Stay abreast of the latest developments and trends in talent management and maintain a community of practice across industries that is relevant to the talent management and leadership development and provide thought- leadership in this area internally.
• Ensure measurement metrics (KPIs) are implemented for programs and solutions to assess effectiveness and impact.
• Produce reports and presentations to showcase progress, identify barriers and gain buy-in and sponsorship from senior leaders for future solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field, such as Adult Education, Business, Organizational Development, or Industrial Psychology (Master’s degree is considered a strong asset)
• 8-10 years of progressive HR experience with a minimum of 7 years specifically
• in Leadership or Learning Assessment and Development
• Significant experience in designing, developing, planning, deploying of Leadership Development Journeys and Experiences
• Experience in using various types of assessments tools (360 feedback, psychometric, leadership assessments) to support development experiences.
• Experience in adult learning principles, instructional design methodology, training and facilitation
• Has a record of effectively aligning learning strategies and programs to organizational strategies, and achieving tangible business or people related results.

Experience in project management and multi-stakeholder management

• Knowledge of LMS or LEP are assets
• Experience in content development using technological learning tools (Captivate, WebEx, Adobe, Menti,
• Written and spoken bilingualism (French and English) is a strong asset

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