Senior Manager, HIA Policy

Role Responsibilities

If you are a strategic policy leader with expertise in health information legislation, governance and complex stakeholder environments, this is an exciting opportunity to lead impactful health information policy in Alberta. The Senior Manager, HIA Policy plays a critical role in supporting Alberta’s health sector through the complexities of health information legislation, with a focus on the Health Information Act (HIA). This leadership role involves providing strategic guidance on legislative interpretation, driving the HIA's provincial implementation, and ensuring that policies stay effective and responsive to the needs of Alberta’s health system. In this role, you will also support external stakeholders directly, helping to shape Alberta’s health information landscape for the future.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading the development of health information policy, including primary responsibility for the ongoing maintenance and modernization of the HIA and its regulations.  

• Leading focused implementation activities for recent amendments to the HIA, including developing policy guidance, supporting stakeholder readiness, coordinating interpretation and implementation advice, and ensuring operational impacts are identified and addressed across Primary and Preventative Health Services and the broader health system.

• Developing, leading and communicating on data / information governance to support the continued development of the Alberta Electronic Health Record (ABEHR).  
• Providing expert leadership and support to Primary and Preventative Health Services, the health system in Alberta, other government sectors and affiliated stakeholders within Alberta on health information legislation and the development of the ABEHR system.   
• Leading, developing, and making decisions and participating in complex issues related to the collection, use, disclosure and protection of health information as required to support new and developing initiatives including but not limited to the Alberta Electronic Health Record, shared electronic health records, the department's Business Intelligence Environment, My Health Records, Health System Refocus priorities and other provincial initiatives as required. 
• Acting in partnership with the Director as operational liaison with the OIPC regarding health information legislation policy, including the ABEHR.
• Leading and directing the management of the HIA Policy team including oversight for the HIA Help Desk and managing a department wide training and knowledge development program.   

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

Drive for Results: Tracking and using data from various team responsibilities to assess and adjust processes as necessary to ensure effectiveness.

Systems Thinking: This position is responsible for maintaining the Health Information Act's ongoing effectiveness which requires a constant systems view of how the Act supports the broader health system objectives.  Considering emerging trends and issues impacting the interpretation and application of the Act.

Creative Problem Solving: Supporting program areas requires effective listening to understand the issues before providing advice on the application of the Act is a common scenario for this role and the team at large.

Develop Self and Others: Leading a team of policy advisors and analysts, developing knowledge and building capacity are ongoing responsibilities of this role.

Agility: In leading a team of seven policy team members, this position is responsible for a number of core functions that are impacted by changes in the organization.  For example, needing to adapt to training needs for delivering mandatory training or demands on the inquiries to support department priorities to ensure compliance with the HIA. These shifts require clear and thoughtful change processes.

Qualifications

Required:

• A University degree in a related field such as information management, political science, law, policy, health administration or social sciences
• Five years of progressively responsible experience in information privacy policy, information management, health sector issues, policy development, health services delivery, and/or legislative issues. 

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered based

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or 
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

Assets: 

• Masters Degree in related field;
• Certificate in Information Access and Protection of Privacy (IAPP);
• Project development experience is required to manage various assigned and competing tasks;
• Experience leading and participating with groups of senior-level stakeholders in policy and related matters;
• Management experience related to developing and supervising direct reports;
• Knowledge in access and privacy legislation including the HIA, POPA , ATIA, PIPA and PIPEDA; 
• Knowledge of GOA stakeholder engagement, policy development, and legislative review processes.
• Management-level writing skills using plain language to succinctly document issues and inputs;
• Well-developed public speaking, communication, and presentation skills (both written and oral);
• Knowledge of electronic health record information systems and their impacts on health information policy development.

A cover letter outlining how your experience relates to the qualifications of this role is required.

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Notes

This competition will be used to fill one full-time permanent position, working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

The position is located in ATB place North, Edmonton, Alberta.

If a security screening is required;

• Final candidates will be required to undergo a criminal records check (CRC).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

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• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.