Excellence in Team- Care Project Manager

Excellence in Team-Based Care Project Manager (#2026-16)

About the CFPC

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is the professional organization that represents more than 45,000 members across the country. The College establishes the standards for and accredits postgraduate family medicine training in Canada’s 17 medical schools. It reviews and certifies continuing professional development programs and materials that enable family physicians to meet certification and licensing requirements.

The CFPC provides high-quality services, supports family medicine teaching and research, and advocates on behalf of the specialty of family medicine, family physicians, and the patients they serve.

Our Vision
:
Leading family medicine. Improving lives.

Our Mission
:
Leading family medicine to improve the health of all people in Canada—by setting standards for education, certifying, and supporting family physicians, championing advocacy and research, and honouring the patient-physician relationship as being core to our profession.

Our Values
:
Caring;
Learning;
Collaboration;
Responsiveness;
Respect;
Integrity; and Commitment to Excellence.

Our Goals
:

• Advancing Family Medicine
• Transforming the CFPC

Position Title
:
Excellence in Team-Based Care Project Manager

Vacancy#: 2026-16
Department: Health Policy and Government Relations
Division: Member and External Relations
Reports to: Director, Health Policy and Government Relations
Direct Reports: No
Classification: Individual Contributor
Status: Contract Full-Time
Term of Contract: 2 Years
Full Time Equivalent: 1.0
Salary: $94,437.84 to $

The Project Manager oversees and supports all the actions required for the successful conceptualization and successful execution of the Excellence in Teams-Based Care project. The project aims to create a Working Group of experts in interprofessional care, identify successful examples of team-based care across Canada, and summarize enablers of this success for replication.

The Project Manager will track the progress of individual tasks against the established work breakdown structure, acting both as an information conduit and an individual contributor performing some of the tasks. This will include:

• Liaising with members of Working Group for information and suggestions
• Establishing metrics for defining excellence in team-based care
• Collecting available information from high‑performing practices and collating it into summaries for review/publication
• Alignment of success criteria with College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)’s strategic priorities
• Communication with selected Best Practice Teams to obtain information on their functioning, summarizing these
• Researching existing government support systems available for team-based practices and applying these
• Ongoing interaction with members of Focus on Family Medicine Task Force to ascertain how best practices align with priorities/positions of the Task Force members and their joint work

Throughout the project there will be key information generated, such as:

• Examples of best practices in team-based care
• Government programs that enable these
• Grassroots approaches that enable these successes
• Evidence on the benefits achieved through the work of these practices
• The structural requirements of achieving these good results – practice team makeup, practice organizations, scheduling strategies, patient communications, etc.
• The Project Manager will be responsible for capturing these and compiling these in a concise, shareable way as the final outcome of the project

The Project Manager will keep track of key tasks on the Project Plan and ensure their timely completion by offering reminders and schedule adjustments based on the project progress.

• The Project plan will be updated regularly to ensure that the timeline is realistic and…