Project Manager, Strategy – Permanent Full-Time

VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) is one of the largest not-for-profit home care providers in Ontario. Our team is made up of close to 3,000 caring and committed professionals who love what they do. Our providers tell us: “Home care is where I can truly make a difference. There is such a sense of accomplishment from helping people live independently at home.” Our teams work together to provide high quality, client-centred care to those who need it most in their homes, schools, retirement homes and other community settings. Many of our team members manage their own schedules in the community and they say, “The freedom and flexibility can’t be beat.” Providers form meaningful bonds with the clients and families they serve over time and are supported by a diverse regional team and beneficial home office programs. Team members tell us “I love the inclusive culture. I feel welcome and at home.” 

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Pay Range

Commensurate with Experience

The Project Manager, Strategy will lead project team(s) in both the execution and adoption of high-impact projects and initiatives aligned with VHA’s strategic priorities for 2025-2030. With a relentless focus on delivering measurable outcomes and ensuring adoption, this role will drive initiatives that create meaningful and lasting benefits across the organization. Championing a co-design approach, the role ensures the voices of clients, families, frontline staff, and partners drive projects from conception to completion. As a key member of the Office of Strategy Management (OSM), the Project Manager will work with cross-functional teams across VHA (including frontline staff) to drive engagement and ensure successful strategy implementation, focusing on the adoption of standardized tools and processes.

This role will support the development and maintain sustainable processes to keep stakeholders informed of projects’ status, risks, execute mitigation strategies with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external to VHA. This role will enhance the reputation of its department and organization, consistent with VHA’s vision, mission and core beliefs of services as well as building and supporting sustainable and productive public relations with clients and VHA staff and partners. #INVHACorp

Key Areas of Accountability:

• 3-5 years of experience leading and supporting the execution of large-scale strategic projects involving multiple internal and external stakeholders. Experience should include driving organization-wide changes to support the successful execution of strategic initiatives.
• Proven expertise in project management principles and methodologies and experience developing and managing cross-functional teams on large-budget, cross-disciplinary and complex project portfolio by setting priorities, project and individual workplans, communicating values, strategies, expectations, and promoting an engaged and inclusive environment.
• Flexible, nimble and adaptable to new and unexpected situations that may arise from projects/initiatives while working in a fast-paced healthcare environment
• Excellent project management skills, utilizing project planning techniques and project planning tools and templates, e.g. use adaptive approach, scope statements, project charters, team agreements, requirement analysis, lessons-learned, Gantt charts, critical path analysis, etc.
• Experience leading and supporting annual planning across departments to develop annual plans in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; deliver tough messages with grace; execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Excellent BI data analysis skills to provide strategic, evidence-based advice/recommendations to teams and leaders as appropriate and identify errors in reports for large sets of data for a large organization.
• Well-developed knowledge of engaging with and supporting leaders within a health care setting to apply change and design approaches in supporting project execution and adoption of new strategic initiatives  
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; deliver tough messages with grace; execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Highly organized with the ability to apply structure to manage and track multiple projects / programs of work
• Experience in applying quality improvement methodologies to achieve outcomes is valuable (e.g. process mapping, value stream analysis, kaizen events etc.)
• Provide project leadership to facilitate the achievement of the OSM objectives.

Key skills, experience and behaviors required for this position: 

• A minimum of three to five years progressive leadership responsibility and project management, preferably in health-related sector (required)
• Demonstrated experience establishing and delivering complex projects within a large system and / or organization
• Experience leading and supporting project teams
• Bachelor’s degree in a related health care discipline from a recognized university (required)
• Advanced degree, e.g. Masters Degree in Health Administration or Business Administration or equivalent (ideal)
• Project Management Institute (PMI) certification preferred or extensive project leadership experience (required)
• PROSCI Change Management Practitioner, Certified (preferred)

What makes VHA’s compensation unique?

• Benefits and pension plan for permanent eligible employees

• Compensation for education and professional development

• VHA is a leading learning organization so we can provide you with comprehensive orientation and training at the start and throughout your career

• Mentorship and peer support

• Career development opportunities

• Employee and family assistance program

• Wellness resources

• Perks & discounts

• Staff & service provider events

Accommodation and VHA’s commitment to DEI

At VHA Home HealthCare (VHA), we passionately strive to uphold our commitments to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We champion inclusion and diversity in all parts of our organization and are strong believers that a diverse workforce is key to the ongoing and future success of VHA. We aim to review all applicants with fair and unbiased recruitment practices where opportunities are presented based on merits, skills, and experience. VHA is committed to providing reasonable accommodation and our services are accessible and sensitive to the needs of diverse groups. If you require any accommodation, please let us know in advance as we are happy to comply.

How to Apply?

Our online application should take about 5 to 10 minutes to complete.

VHA is accredited with Exemplary Standing by Accreditation Canada; an RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization designate; and a founding member agency of United Way Greater Toronto.

Thank you to everyone who applies. We will review applications as they are received. We’ll only be contacting those selected for further discussion.

In every role and at every level, we lead with purpose, build bonds that matter, and we’re passionate about providing spectacular care.