Chief Project Officer, and Executive Director, Capital Planning and Projects

Come work as a Chief Project Officer, and Executive Director, Capital Planning and Projects with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Chief Project Officer, and Executive Director, Capital Planning and Projects to join the team.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer & VP, Strategic Business Services, the Chief Project Officer and Executive Director provides executive leadership for a capital portfolio exceeding $500M, guiding projects from strategic vision to operation readiness.

This executive role leads a team of experts through an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and/or leads in full collaboration with the Alliance Leadership team in a partnership model that values collaboration, innovation, and shared success — building the spaces where patients heal, care teams thrive, and excellence takes shape through every decision, design, and partnership. This position oversees all stages — planning, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning — while fostering collaboration across VCH, the Ministry of Health, Infrastructure BC, and community partners.

It is a defining leadership opportunity for an experienced executive who thrives in complex, multi-partner environments and is motivated by the opportunity to deliver lasting public infrastructure through partnership and purpose.

This work is framed within VCH’s commitments to our pillars of Indigenous Cultural Safety, Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Planetary Health.

As a Chief Project Officer, and Executive Director, Capital Planning and Projects with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Lead transformational delivery: Oversee planning, procurement, design, construction, and commissioning of major hospital redevelopments.
• Champion collaborative delivery: Lead high-performing teams through IPD or Alliance models emphasizing partnership, transparency, and shared success.
• Strategic facility planning: Co-develop long-range facility strategies and site-specific master plans aligned with VCH’s goals and community priorities.
• Procurement and contract oversight: Direct procurement strategy, evaluation, negotiation, and contract management to ensure fair, transparent, value-based outcomes.
• Risk, governance, and compliance: Implement rigorous risk-management frameworks and ensure adherence to health, safety, environmental, and accreditation standards.
• Clinical and operational integration: Align facility design with care-delivery models; ensure seamless operational readiness and patient safety during transition.
• Financial stewardship: Oversee capital and operating budgets, maintaining fiscal discipline, transparency, and alignment with public-sector standards.
• Strategic asset management: Contribute to long-term capital investment strategies, lifecycle planning, and asset optimization across VCH’s facility portfolio.
• Innovation and sustainability: Advance evidence-based design, LEAN principles, and sustainability goals to create adaptable, resilient, inclusive environments.
• People leadership: Build a culture of excellence, inclusion, and psychological safety; support, mentor, and empower multidisciplinary project teams.
• Knowledge leadership: Integrate emerging technologies and best practices to continuously enhance capital planning and project delivery.
• Partner and community engagement: Foster trusted relationships with government, clinical, and community partners to ensure projects reflect shared values.

Technical & Governance Accountabilities

• Business-plan execution: Ensure the effective and timely discharge of VCH’s project responsibilities as outlined in approved business plans, funding agreements, and governance frameworks.
• Scope and quality control: Approve scope revisions within delegated signing authority; ensure robust project-management plans and reporting processes are in place.
• Specifications and technology integration: Direct development of building, equipment, and digital-technology specifications to ensure full clinical and operational integration.
• Feasibility and planning studies: Lead preparation of feasibility analyses, project charters, and implementation plans supporting capital-project approvals and readiness.
• Matrix coordination: Promote synergy and accountability across Alliance Leadership team, project-management, clinical-planning, equipment-planning, and results-management functions to avoid duplication.
• Performance and human-resources management: Oversee recruitment, performance evaluation, and professional development for assigned staff in accordance with VCH policies.
• Carries out responsibilities in accordance with health and safety requirements. Immediately reports unsafe situations by notifying supervisor or other appropriate personnel.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Harleen Dastur-Randhawa, Manager, Executive Talent Acquisition at View email address on click.appcast.io.

WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research, and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and "going first" when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health, and dental and municipal pension plan.
• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities.
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families.
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers.
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff.

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams, and inclusive environments, which are integral to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, BC’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers and Canada's Top Employers for Young People in 2026.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.

Employees of VCH must apply online via the Internal Career Portal on CareerHub, you are currently viewing the External Career Portal. Refer to the site for instructions on how to view internal job postings and how to apply as an employee. Current VCH employees who apply to this posting using this external site will be considered as an external candidate. Seniority will not apply.

Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.

Education & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Engineering or a related discipline, supplemented with ten (10) to fifteen (15) years’ of progressive senior leadership experience in large, complex organizations - ideally in healthcare or public infrastructure, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Proven success delivering complex major capital projects (>$250M, or similar size/complexity) using Integrated Project Delivery, Alliance, Design-Build, P3, or Construction Management models

Knowledge & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to bring strategic foresight, operational excellence, and a commitment to collaboration and integrity.
• Demonstrates inclusive leadership, strong relationship-building skills, and the ability to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in governance, partner engagement, fiscal oversight, and risk management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead an inclusive, partnership-oriented approach that fosters collaboration across executive, clinical and community teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, plan, direct and implement processes.
• Ability to supervise and provide direction to others, and fosters a respectful and motivating work environment and where individual competencies can thrive.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with key internal and external partners to promote and enhance services provided with sensitivity to diversity and indigenous lens.
• Practices the recognition, inclusion and support of all types and aspects of diversity at all stages of engagement, with an understanding of the issues faced by people from equity-deserving groups.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain rapport with internal and external partners.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Ability to organize and prioritize functions to meet tight and evolving timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively in a highly dynamic environment subject to continuous change.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Shared Values

You care for everyone:

• You are compassionate, empathetic, and sensitive to the needs of others.
• You are respectful, treating people as equals, and valuing others’ perspectives and differences.
• You are appreciative of others’ efforts and give them praise when it’s due.

You Are Always Learning

• You are open minded, always receptive to different perspectives and ways of doing things.
• You are curious and ask questions to find a deeper understanding.
• You share your expertise and mentor others by sharing your knowledge and experience.

You Strive For Better Results

• You are accountable, and take responsibility for what you say, what you do, and who you engage in achieving better results.
• You are a solution finder, empowered to solve the challenges we face in healthcare.
• You take ownership for growth and development and personal development, always seek feedback and opportunities to improve how we do things.