Academic Program Manager

Michener; Toronto; On-site; CAD 86,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Academic Program Manager to lead initiatives at a renowned healthcare education institution. This role involves managing complex projects, ensuring high-quality learning experiences, and engaging with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive project management experience, outstanding communication skills, and strategic thinking to drive program success. Join a team dedicated to advancing healthcare education and make a significant impact on the future of health professions. This position offers opportunities for hybrid work arrangements, making it an attractive option for professionals looking to balance work and life effectively.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project management experience in healthcare or education.
• Outstanding communication and facilitation skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects ensuring success in quality and enrolment targets.
• Provide program reporting and maintain communication with stakeholders.

Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Management

Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

PMP Certification

Six Sigma Certification

Job description

Position: Academic Program Manager
Department: The Michener Centre for Community Health Education
Status: Permanent Full Time
Site: The Michener Institute
Salary: $86,067.76 - $107,584.70 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week

Opportunity for hybrid work arrangements available for this role (min. 2 days onsite per week)

The Michener Institute of Education at UHN is Canada’s only post-secondary institution devoted exclusively to healthcare professions, offering full-time, part-time and continuing education programs. For more than 65 years, Michener has prepared generations of professionals for applied health careers and responded to emerging health system priorities. We’re uniquely situated within University Health Network (UHN) in downtown Toronto, one of the largest and most highly ranked hospital systems in Canada and internationally. Our curriculum is informed by cutting-edge research and clinical innovations, giving Michener graduates an advantage as they begin their careers. At Michener, we make healthcare happen.

If you want to work with a team of professionals dedicated to the advancement of applied health sciences, we encourage you to apply for the Academic Program Manager position in the Centre for Community Health Education within The Michener Institute.

Job Description

The Academic Program Manager, reporting to the Head of the Centre for Community Health Education, makes daily decisions that keep a complex portfolio of initiatives on track, delivering on scope, budget, and outcomes in a multi-complexity environment, bringing along clients, colleagues, consultants, and other stakeholders to achieve business objectives, and to ensure high quality learning experiences for all participants.

Responsibilities:

• The Academic Program Manager is a self-starter with proven experience managing multiple projects in a multi-stakeholder environment. They are deeply familiar with structured methodologies for project management in complex environments like healthcare or post-secondary education. They ensure managed programs achieve success through team leadership of matrixed functional groups of skilled individuals who may report organizationally elsewhere, negotiating required time and attention.
• The Academic Program Manager has outstanding communication skills, including writing clearly and concisely, superior facilitation skills, and excellent project presentation skills. They are comfortable and successful in engaging with decision-makers and influencers across large organizations and institutions, including government ministries and agencies, across UHN entities, and internally with Michener colleagues.
• Must be an expert in breaking complex initiatives into the processes and procedures required to achieve success, bringing clarity of vision in process improvements and change management.
• Launches and sustains programming for the Michener Institute to deliver in service to the healthcare system, ensuring success in quality and enrolment targets.
• Provides formal and informal program reporting, trend analyses, updates, and progress communications, maintaining communication with all stakeholders and enhancing the Michener brand through expert, on-time, on-budget quality delivery.
• Acts as a valued second to the Head, Centre for Community Health Education, providing the day-to-day delivery lens on both new programming and on optimizing ongoing programming to ensure financial and learning success for students.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education or experience
• PMP certification is an asset, but not required
• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management
• Minimum 5 years of direct experience in healthcare and/or post-secondary education or a combination of both.
• Six Sigma experience/certification is an asset, but not required
• A track record of successful program planning, stakeholder engagement, program communications, metrics tracking, and outcome analysis in complex environments
• Outstanding communication skills, including writing clearly and concisely, and project management presentation skills

Additional Information

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a detailed resume and cover letter.

For further information on The Michener Institute, please visit our website at www.michener.ca.

The Michener Institute is publicly funded by the Ministry of Health and is a respectful, caring and inclusive workplace. We are committed to championing accessibility, diversity and equal opportunity.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process providing the applicant has met the bona fide requirements for the open position. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.

While we thank all applicants only those selected for an interview will be contacted.