Program Manager
Your Opportunity:
Health Shared Services provides essential services to Alberta's provincial health agencies and corporations. Capital Management's goal is to provide Albertans with safe, well-designed, efficient, sustainable and well-maintained health facilities and equipment, which support the delivery of high quality, client, patient, and family focused health services. Reporting to the Director, Space Integration-North Sector, the Program Manager leads a team responsible for optimizing owned and leased space supporting corporate and community health operations.
Description:
This position oversees a team responsible to develop concepts for infrastructure solutions and/or furniture modifications to support the delivery of services aligned with the vision, mission and business plans of agencies and corporations served. The Manager will develop and maintain positive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders including Public Health Corporations, Public Health Agencies and Ministries. The Manager is responsible to: Lead a team in the development and coordination of project specific complex and integrated accommodation strategies for community and office/administrative space (non-clinical), ranging from site specific solutions to sector/regional considerations. Implement furnishings reconfiguration/moves to ensure the effective utilization of space inventory. Lead the development of both short- and long-term accommodations strategies, policies and procedures within the North Sector. This work is coordinated closely with the Real Estate teams ensuring the use of owned and leased facilities is maximized and the workspace needs of clients are met both currently and in the future through comprehensive planning services. Lead the concept development of small to medium sized non-clinical projects including tenant improvements, capital upgrades, as well as staff moves, adds, changes in accordance with all applicable HSS policies, procedures and standards. Develop strategies, policies, and procedures for effective project development that not only meet client needs and the overall health services plan but are also fiscally responsible. Ensure standards for the design and fit-out of space, both clinical and administrative, are applied consistently across owned and leased sites.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: Program Manager
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Space Integration
- Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza
- Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 06-OCT-2026
- Date Available: 02-NOV-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $45.23
- Maximum Salary: $77.51
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
A minimum of 10 years progressively responsible experience in infrastructure space management and accommodation planning, preferably including experience in healthcare or other large institutional, publicly funded environments of significant size, complexity, and diversity. The incumbent will demonstrate a clear pattern of professional and personal development.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Effective communicator with strong organizational skills, client-focused orientation and commitment to quality services. Leadership skills: demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching and teaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Ability to manage diverse human, financial and physical resources in a changing and multifaceted environment with diverse, complex and sensitive issues. Proven ability to foster partnerships and to achieve organizational goals within a large, diverse organization and managing within a unionized sector. The ability to motivate and lead staff and ensure the quality of the deliverables is consistent and provides good return on investment. Able to achieve results by managing outcomes using a variety of internal and external resources. Uses strategic thinking, long-term goals to assess options and risks. Ability to lead a diverse group of professional staff and advise senior executive and external consultants on complex, occasionally confrontational, confidential, potentially stressful challenges or projects; and to bring a professional, focused approach in communications.
Preferred Qualifications:
A related Diploma, Bachelor, or Masters’ Degree preferably in the field of Interior Design or Architecture plus designations in project management, planning, or other related area. Experience in strategy, policy, leadership, project and program management.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.
We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
