senior program manager.

We are seeking an expert Senior Program Manager to provide strategic portfolio oversight, governance framework design, and operational execution leadership across interconnected digital health workstreams. In this role, you will collaborate closely with executive leadership and cross-functional management teams to strengthen program coordination, reporting clarity, and delivery health. Operating within a highly regulated public health environment, you will manage multi-workstream dependencies, drive program-level process optimization, and embed rigorous health data standardization frameworks to enable secure, high-quality, and interoperable system-level data exchange.

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Duration: 9-month contract.

Advantages
Strategic Portfolio Impact: Shape the foundational governance and integration frameworks making regional and provincial digital health data trustworthy, connected, and interoperable.

Cutting-Edge Data Scope: Command high-market value by leading programs centered on modern data lifecycles and advanced health informatics standards.

Executive Visibility: Act as a key strategic advisor, producing executive dashboards and delivering critical briefings directly to director-level leadership.

Brief & Presentable Terms: Own a high-profile, non-operational execution mandate focused purely on transformation, process optimization, and change enablement.

Responsibilities
Portfolio Integration & Oversight: Develop and maintain a unified portfolio integration approach that delivers a clear, system-level view of multi-workstream priorities, milestones, interdependencies, and overall delivery health.

Program Governance Architecture: Design, implement, and continuously improve program governance processes, operational templates, compliance controls, and committee meeting structures to support efficient leadership oversight.

Executive Telemetry & Reporting: Consolidate data from multiple parallel workstreams to author recurring and ad-hoc program reports, leadership briefing materials, status dashboards, and comprehensive analyses of emerging risks.

Change Management Leadership: Apply formal change management methodologies and practices to drive organizational adoption, support behavioral transitions, and implement new operational delivery structures across interconnected teams.

Risk & Dependency Mitigation: Track, manage, and neutralize program-level risks, systemic blockers, cross-project dependencies, and action items, ensuring timely executive escalation and structured follow-through.

Financial & Capacity Planning: Support rigorous financial and operational planning by maintaining deep visibility into program budget usage, team resource capacity, and delivery constraints.

Operational Process Optimization: Identify strategic opportunities to refine operational workflows, improve reporting quality, and enhance coordination mechanisms across the entire digital health standards portfolio.

Partner Facilitation & Alignment: Coordinate activities and facilitate governance forums, steering committees, and interactive working sessions, ensuring absolute alignment on accountabilities and record-of-decision tracking across diverse partners.

Qualifications
Core Program Seniority: Minimum of 10+ years of progressive professional experience in program management, large-scale initiative delivery, or portfolio oversight within public sector or multi-setting healthcare organizations.

Digital Health Infrastructure Literacy: Deep practical knowledge of health data practices, data models, lifecycle management, and the application of interoperability standards (including HL7 FHIR®, SNOMED CT®, and LOINC®) across local, regional, and national tiers.

Governance & KPI Mastery: Proven ability to establish formal program governance frameworks, performance matrices, operational KPIs, and rigorous executive reporting mechanisms.

Advanced Change Management Toolkit: Demonstrated experience applying formal change management frameworks to support adoption, structural workflows, and behavioral change across complex enterprise services.

Financial & Resource Acumen: Strong experience managing financial tracking, budget forecasting, resource capacity planning, and deployment constraints.

Process Mapping & SDLC Literacy: Proficient in advanced process mapping techniques and navigating the broader solution development lifecycle (SDLC) alongside modern enterprise collaboration tools.

Soft Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of steering cross-functional stakeholders toward consensus under tight deadlines.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Health Information Management, or a related discipline (or an approved equivalent combination of education and relevant senior professional experience).

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Program Manager" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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