Portfolio Liaison, LFP

• Pay or shift range: $90,640 CAD to $113,300 CAD The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, internal equity, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.
• Doctors of BC Jobs
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: PORTF
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The starting salary range falls within the minimum to mid-point of the salary range.

Starting Salary Range: $90,640 - $113,300

Reporting to the Director, Economics the Portfolio Liaison, LFP provides strategic oversight, coordination, and leadership for the LFP portfolio, ensuring alignment with the priorities and commitments of Doctors of BC, BC Family Doctors (BCFD), the Family Practice Services Committee (FPSC), and government partners. Acting as a key liaison across these organizations, the Portfolio Liaison builds and maintains collaborative relationships, facilitates communication and decision-making, and supports the development of proposals, submissions, and strategic initiatives.

Working closely with BC Family Doctors' Executive Directors and Chief Medical Officer, as well as Doctors of BC leadership and operational teams, the role navigates complex stakeholder relationships, brings together diverse perspectives, and translates strategic and policy direction into coordinated priorities and actionable plans.

The Portfolio Liaison oversees the coordination and delivery of portfolio workplans, timelines, and key deliverables, working collaboratively with the Project Manager and cross-functional teams, including Billing Support and Education, Practitioner Payments, Analytics, and Communications. The role monitors progress, identifies risks and dependencies, facilitates issue resolution, and ensures alignment between policy direction and operational implementation. In addition, the Portfolio Liaison develops briefing materials, Board reports, executive communications, and recommendations to support informed decision-making and accountability.

Through effective relationship management, strategic communication, and cross-organizational collaboration, the role supports the successful implementation of LFP priorities and initiatives while ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment across partners.

What success looks like:

Relationship Building (A):

• Ability to set objectives necessary for obtaining feedback and assistance.
• Maintains effective communication by sharing ideas and exploring opportunities with members of personal network.
• Seeks referrals from others with relevant expertise and influence.
• Attends and maintains relationships with relevant formal and informal professional groups and organizations.

Change Advocate (A):

• Leads the planning and implementation of change programs that impact critical functions and processes.
• Partners with other resource managers and change agents to identify opportunities for significant process enhancements.
• Recommends changes that impact strategic business direction.
• Proven ability to set expectations for monitoring, feedback systems and reviews performance trends.
• Evaluates progress and involves peers and team members in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance.
• Improves efficiency by spearheading pilots and planned functional change initiatives.

Negotiating (I):

• Demonstrates more than one preferred negotiating style (e.g. competing, co-operative, avoiding, compromise, accommodating) and adapts depending on the counterpart and context.
• Negotiates in a constructive manner when tackling difficult issues, making realistic compromises during negotiations.
• Manages buy-in and gains trust with stakeholders prior to and during negotiations, listening to other points of view to negotiate a fair compromise.
• Explores creative solutions to overcome antagonism and develop partnerships.
• Reviews the immediate results, broad implications and unintended consequences of all decisions.

Strategic Thinking (A):

• Identifies and considers emerging development opportunities and risks when articulating new options and recommendations.
• Maintains a broad, strategic perspective while identifying and focusing on crucial details.
• Analyzes project inputs from various elements (e.g.,…