Executive Director, Workplace Health & Safety

at  PHSA

Salary Range: $141,146 - $202,898/year. The starting salary for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan. Salary will be prorated accordingly for part-time roles.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY

People and Culture, Corporate Services
Hybrid Opportunity
You are an experienced occupational health professional with a penchant for organizational transformation, achieving results, and continuous learning. Colleagues know you for your strong collaborative leadership style, persuasive negotiation skills with ability to achieve consensus, genuine desire to listen to diverse perspectives, and ability to take plans from concept to implementation. You’re equally invested in both health and safety, with a people-first perspective in building and achieving action plans. If you’re looking for an incredible leadership opportunity, this role reaching across British Columbia may be the perfect “what’s next” for your workplace health and safety career!

The Executive Director, Workplace Health & Safety reports to the Vice President, People and Culture and is a member of the senior leadership team. This role is accountable for the Workplace Safety & Prevention and Disability Management portfolios within People and Culture, which reach across the Provincial Health Services Authority’s (PHSA) province-wide programs. The Executive Director guides the overall strategic leadership in the provision of Workplace Safety & Prevention and Disability Management functions, with responsibility for operations and strategic planning, and represents PHSA in internal and industry initiatives. High-level accountabilities include:

• Actively guides, contributes and works in partnership with senior leadership team colleagues in the overall strategic leadership and the planning, development and management of the department strategy, goals and objectives for PHSA and its agencies, services and divisions. Makes decisions that have broad implications and complexity, ensures consistency with PHSA’s overall strategic plan, alignment with the MoH priorities, and works within the boundaries of government legislation and policies as well as provincial standards and agreements.
• Provides strategic leadership and expertise and develops long and short-term plans; aligns portfolio goals and objectives to the overall strategic direction of HR within PHSA.
• Collaborates with leadership to ensure cross functional HR network teams are integrated and collaborative in their approach to providing consistent and qualitative service to clients.
• Drives results through integrating practice and approaches across PHSA, building on practice and extending it to all, exploring opportunities and leveraging resources, and cultivating innovation including the development of standard operating procedures and systems/processes.
• Leads staff in growing partnerships with clients and facilitating consensus to plan and deliver on specific programs and services. Negotiates both internally and externally to PHSA on a formal basis, enters into contracts and letters of understanding on behalf of PHSA, and makes decisions involving complex and diverse issues.
• Oversees the portfolio teams to successfully provide expert counsel, high quality services, act as a business partner, and to embody and support PHSA values. Provides leadership to staff through coaching, guiding and modelling key behaviours/strategies, encouraging dialogue and providing guidance and advice to facilitate resolutions to work issues.
• Develops and monitors an annual budget includes operating, project/temporary funding, and budgets; monitors overall portfolio budget performance, plans and adjusts operations and/or staffing to meet projections and annual targets, and approves expenditures and preparing summary reports.