Director

Alberta Health Services; Calgary; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Alberta Health Services seeks a Director to lead the Cancer Advanced Analytics program, overseeing the Alberta Cancer Registry, Data Integrity & Integration, Cancer Surgery Alberta, and Cancer Surveillance & Reporting teams. Collaboration with clinicians, researchers and provincial partners is essential to advance analytics for care and research.

The role focuses on strategy, data quality, dashboards, and innovative analytic techniques to improve cancer care across Alberta.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree with advanced quantitative focus required.
• Minimum 5 years of management experience.
• Minimum 10 years of health service analytics and academic research experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee development, validation and improvement of cancer data assets and reporting systems.
• Lead multiple provincial teams across sites (70-80 FTEs).
• Set analytic priorities and design analytic/reporting methods for operations and planning.
• Develop dashboards/scorecards showing clinical performance and quality metrics.
• Coordinate involvement in national/international cancer measurement and surveillance efforts.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Graduate degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, business, analytics, or related field with an advanced quantitative focus

Job description

The Director, Cancer Advanced Analytics, is responsible for oversight of the Cancer Advanced Analytics program. This includes strategic leadership in advancing cancer analytics for health service improvement, operations, surveillance, and academic research. This position is responsible for leadership and oversight of the Alberta Cancer Registry, Data Integrity & Integration, Cancer Surgery Alberta, and Cancer Surveillance & Reporting teams.The Director works with clinicians, leaders, and researchers internal and external to Health Shared Services (HSS) to expand the use of data, analytics and decision support in new and novel ways. The underlying aim is to elevate the data and systems to increase the quality and impact of cancer analytics and research. This involves fostering collaboration and innovation beyond oncology, leveraging Connect Care and other systems to expand research opportunities, data access, automated reporting/dashboards while also developing innovative analytic techniques.The Director works in collaboration with Provincial Programs, Universities, clinical and academic researchers, provincial health Ministries/Agencies/Corporations (notably Cancer Care Alberta, CCA), as well as national and international cancer organizations, and is responsible for the alignment of cancer analytics goals and objectives with those of Cancer Research, CCA, Connect Care, and Alberta’s new Cancer Care Plan.

Description

This position oversees the development, validation, and continuous improvement of cancer data assets and related measurement and reporting systems, ensuring high quality, timely, and methodologically sound analytics to support cancer care and research needs, provincial planning, performance measurement, and health system decision making.

• Leading and managing multiple provincial teams across multiple sites (70-80 FTEs in total).
• Establishing analytic priorities, designing appropriate analytic and reporting methods, and managing stakeholder expectations for operational needs, strategic decision-making, and planning.
• Developing dashboards/scorecards that present a broad perspective on clinical performance and quality (may involve the inclusion of finBuilds and maintains strong partnerships across federal, provincial, and international organizations to advance cancer data standards, analytic innovation, and collaborative research.
• Leads Alberta’s participation in national and international cancer measurement and surveillance committees (e.g., Statistics Canada, Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer).
• Directs provincial participation and resourcing to major international research and benchmarking initiatives (e.g., International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership).
• Provides oversight of the Alberta Cancer Registry and all provincial cancer data submissions to Statistics Canada and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, ensuring adherence to rigorous national and international data quality standards.
• Contributes and advises on publications and reports on cancer surveillance, epidemiology and analytics with key stakeholders within Alberta and other provincial, national and international organizations.

• Transition Company: Health Shared Services
• Classification: Director
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Cancer Advanced Analytics
• Primary Location: Arthur Child Cancer Centre
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 19-OCT-2026
• Date Available: 02-NOV-2026
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $57.07
• Maximum Salary: $100.39
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

• Transition Company: Health Shared Services
• Classification: Director
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Cancer Advanced Analytics
• Primary Location: Arthur Child Cancer Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Negotiable Location: Provincial
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 19-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: $57.07
• Maximum Salary: $100.39
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications

Graduate degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, business, analytics, or other related field with an advanced quantitative focus.

Additional Required Qualifications

• 5 years of management experience.
• 10 years of health service analytic and academic research experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change and influence decision-making through the synthesis and interpretation of data.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with senior leaders by presenting detailed plans, complex analyses, methods and findings in business- and user-friendly language.
• Experience in developing collaborative working relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to handle complex issues and difficult situations.
• Proven abilities in negotiation, facilitation, and conflict resolution.
• Ability to deal with highly complex or sensitive issues in a professional manner.
• Skill in balancing diverse and conflicting stakeholder interests.

Preferred Qualifications

Leadership training.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the postingend 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.

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