Senior Analyst, Policy & Planning, Public Health

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Location:

Provincial Zone, Flexible Within the Province
Department: PH Planning Qlty Systems Performance
Type of Employment:
Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment ( 100% ) x 1
Management/Non Union P
osition
Posting Closing Date: 23-May-25

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and qua ternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions.

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Reporting to the Manager, Planning, Quality & System Performance, the Senior Analyst, Policy and Planning participates in the development of the strategic direction of Public Health by providing leadership in the areas of policy development, planning and accountability, provincial standards, best and promising practices, provincial Standard Operating Procedures and more broadly, evidence-based decision making. The Senior Analyst provides strategic analysis and advice for the advancement of defined priority areas according to Public Health’s priorities and the identified strategic directions of Nova Scotia Health.

This involves building new and fostering existing partnerships that support the achievement of priorities.

The Senior Analyst, Policy & Planning leads work teams and manages projects to advance provincialPublic Healthpriority areas and assists in developing a strategic provincialoperationalplans, human resource and financial planning, monitoring systems and continuous quality improvement mechanisms.

The Senior Analyst assists in designing a provincial integrated plan for developing strategic and operational plans that support excellence, PH priorities and goals. The Senior Analyst also brings a strong background in quality improvement to facilitate the development of a quality program for Public Health and supports continuous improvement to advance a vision of excellence. This position is provincial in nature;

therefore, a balance of remote and onsite presence is required.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Baccalaureate degree in public health, health promotion, community development, health administration or other relevant field
• 3 years of relevant leadership experience and providing strategic, evidence-based decision support with progressive accountabilities for standards development, planning, and implementation, advising on healthy public policy, and adoption of best practices to deliver high quality services.
• Master’s Degree in a health related discipline, health administration, business administration or related subject considered an asset
• Eligible for registration with relevant health…