Senior Consultant, Sustainability

Fraser Health Authority; Surrey; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia, Canada, is seeking a Full Time Senior Consultant, Sustainability to lead climate action and champion planetary health across our regional healthcare network. With a Master’s degree and five years of experience, you will serve as the core subject matter expert executing our long-term sustainability strategy.

Use change management skills to partner with clinical leaders to implement, monitor, and scale green healthcare solutions across sites, networks,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a discipline related to public health, sustainability, climate action, or project management.
• Five (5) years of related experience.
• Change management experience in the health sector is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Utilize project and change management methodologies to support the Sustainability strategy.
• Develop charters, objectives, and schedules for the Sustainability work plan.
• Manage projects through the project management lifecycle and report to senior leaders.
• Collaborate with Energy and Environmental Sustainability teams and other SMEs.
• Research sustainability trends and health impacts to shape strategy.
• Coordinate engagement with other health authorities regionally.

Skills

Project management

Change management

Sustainability

Climate change knowledge

Indigenous cultural safety

Facilitation

Leadership

Independent work

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in public health/sustainability/project management

Job description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $46.37 - $66.66 / hour

Job Summary

Fraser Health is seeking a Full Time Senior Consultant, Sustainability to lead climate action and champion planetary health across our regional healthcare network. With a Master’s degree and five years of experience, you will serve as the core subject matter expert executing our long-term sustainability strategy. Use your change management skills to partner with clinical leaders to implement, monitor, and scale green healthcare solutions.

Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Reporting to a Lead/Manager, the Senior Consultant, Sustainability champions project and change management methodologies, acts as a connection to the Lead/Manager for subject matter expertise, and is responsible to coordinate assigned sustainability priorities and initiatives. In partnership with clinical and operational leadership from various programs, networks and sites, the Senior Consultant supports activation and implementation of components of the Sustainability (Planetary Health) Strategy and related goals of the organization. The Senior Consultant provides advice and consultation in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of priority sustainability initiatives, performance trends and recommends modifications to improve Sustainability related programs.

Responsibilities

1. Utilizes various project management and change management methodologies, to support the implementation of the Fraser Health wide Sustainability (Planetary Health) strategy and work plan by planning, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating to further increase social and environmental sustainability, mitigating climate change, and furthering health adaptation.
2. Supports the establishment of project charters, objectives, and schedules specific to the Sustainability work plan in order to ensure effective collaboration with internal/external partners, appropriate resource use, progression of project activities and achievement of desired results. Development of other documentation may include proposals, briefing notes, work plans, risk management plans, change management plans, communication plans, and outcome measurement plans.
3. Manages assigned projects through the project management lifecycle and liaises with partners toward the achievement of project goals through effectively communicating the project vision, advancing priorities, resolving/escalating issues, and providing recommendations to senior leaders.
4. Collaborates with internal/external partners such as the Energy and Environmental Sustainability team and other subject matter experts to support strategy, implementation and achievement of project goals.
5. Researches, scans and synthesizes literature and projects relating to current/future sustainability trends, potential health system impacts, vulnerability/risk assessments, equity, change management and implementation science to shape the objectives of the Sustainability (Planetary Health) Strategy work plan.
6. Supports and coordinates engagement with other heath authorities through regional working groups to strategize on the implementation of Sustainability initiatives.
7. Participates in the development of knowledge translation and mobilization activities by incorporating student resources and research opportunities into sustainability work.
8. Assesses the impact of the projects (change initiatives) from various partner perspectives and manages the impacts and interdependencies with other priority work in Sustainability, and across Fraser Health.

Qualifications

A level of education, training, and experience equivalent at a minimum, to a Master’s degree in a discipline related to public health, sustainability, climate action, or project management, plus five (5) years of recent, related experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Previous experience in change management in the health sector is an asset.

COMPETENCIES:

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Strong leadership skills to move forward complex organization change in a health organization.
• Strong understanding of project and change management methodologies and ability to meet project targets and objectives.
• Working knowledge of climate change science, health impacts, health and social equity, and sustainable health care.
• Indigenous cultural safety training and/or experience, a commitment to reconciliation, and a track record of creating respectful and effective relationship with Indigenous leaders, knowledge keepers, and representatives.
• Demonstrated facilitation skills with the ability to professionally and respectfully engage with multiple partners in meaningful dialogue through advisory committees, meetings and workshops. Ability to integrate feedback from partners into project activities.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate relevant information from a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines as required.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize large amounts of information and knowledge from a number of sources including scientific literature, government reports, and partner consultations.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, and able to work independently.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team as well as independently.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and prioritize work, work under time constraints to meet deadlines; handle interruptions and changes in priorities.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.