Original job description
Your Opportunity:
Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) is seeking a visionary healthcare leader to help shape the future of continuing care across Alberta. The Senior Director, Continuing Care Homes & Specialized Clinical Programs is a pivotal provincial leadership role responsible for advancing high-quality, person-centred care for some of Alberta's most vulnerable populations. This role will influence how services are designed, integrated, measured, and continuously improved to ensure they remain equitable, evidence-informed, sustainable, and responsive to the evolving needs of Albertans. Reporting to the Senior Provincial Director, Program Excellence, the Senior Director provides strategic leadership and provincial accountability for Continuing Care Homes, Palliative Care, Specialty Clinical Programs, and Allied Health services. The role sets the provincial vision, standards, policies, service models, and performance expectations that guide care delivery. A trusted advisor to senior leadership and system partners, the Senior Director leads transformative strategies that advance quality, safety, innovation, and clinical excellence while strengthening service delivery. This is a rare opportunity to influence provincial healthcare strategy, drive meaningful system transformation, and leave a lasting legacy for residents, patients, families, care providers, and communities across Alberta. If you are inspired by purpose-driven leadership and large-scale impact, we invite you to join us and help shape the future of continuing care in Alberta. This position may be hybrid and located anywhere in Alberta.
Description:
The Senior Director determines provincial program direction within delegated authority and provides recommendations to the Senior Provincial Director, Executive Leadership Team, Board and government where decisions require broader organizational or government approval. The position establishes the program requirements against which services are planned, implemented and evaluated. Operational leaders and contracted providers remain accountable for day-to-day service delivery, while this role holds enterprise accountability for provincial program design, integration, implementation requirements and outcomes. The position is accountable for identifying and addressing systemic variation, service gaps, resident and client risks, quality concerns, workforce pressures and emerging program needs. The Senior Director establishes provincial implementation and performance requirements, evaluates program effectiveness and directs corrective action, improvement, policy clarification or escalation when services do not meet established expectations. The role operates in a complex environment requiring alignment across ALA Operations, contracted continuing care home and service providers, provincial health agencies, government, health professionals, regulatory bodies, municipalities, community organizations and other health and social-service partners. Job titles are under review as are subject to change.
Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta Classification: Executive Director Union: Exempt Unit and Program: Program Excellence Primary Location: Melcor Centre Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta Negotiable Location: Provincial Employee Class: Regular Full Time FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 21-OCT-2026 Date Available: 31-OCT-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 10 Shifts per cycle: 50 Shift Pattern: Days, On Call Days Off: Saturday/Sunday Minimum Salary: $64.94 Maximum Salary: $116.89 Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Required Qualifications:
A master's degree in health services administration, public or business administration, nursing, social work, allied health or a related discipline. A clinical or regulated health-profession background relevant to the role. Current professional registration is required where applicable to the incumbent's discipline. A minimum of seven (7) years’ of progressive senior leadership experience in a large, complex health or human-services organization, including responsibility for provincial or system-level program strategy, design, implementation and performance.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Substantial knowledge of Continuing Care Homes, Palliative and Specialty Programs, and Allied Health or closely related health-system functions, with demonstrated ability to integrate services across organizational and care-setting boundaries. Demonstrated experience advising executives and government; leading complex transformation; developing policy, standards and program frameworks; and translating strategy into consistent operational implementation. Strong political acumen, judgment and decision-making capability with experience managing sensitive issues and balancing client outcomes, quality, access, workforce, financial sustainability and organizational risk. Exceptional communication, negotiation, facilitation and relationship-management skills, including the ability to build alignment among government, health agencies, operational leaders, clinicians, contracted providers, community partners, clients and families. Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams, developing leaders, managing change and delivering measurable results in a geographically dispersed environment. Ability to use data, evidence, quality findings and stakeholder experience to assess performance, identify system-level issues and make defensible recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications:
Executive leadership experience within Alberta's continuing care health system, and working with contracted service providers, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. Experience leading cross-agency initiatives involving acute care, primary care, community services and government partners. Equivalences of education, experience and skills may be considered.
