Senior Program Lead, Clinical Operations - Cancer Care Alberta

Alberta Health Services; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Alberta is seeking a Senior Program Lead for Clinical Operations to advance cancer care across the province. This role offers the chance to provide strategic direction and operational oversight, impacting clinical outcomes and fostering partnerships. The ideal candidate will have at least 10 years of clinical leadership experience, a graduate degree, and a passion for continuous improvement in healthcare services. This position allows for hybrid work within Alberta, offering a collaborative environment to shape cancer care.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive clinical leadership expertise in a complex healthcare organization.
• Minimum of 7 years in a senior leadership or executive leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to manage change and create innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for integration, planning, delivery and evaluation of clinical cancer services.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for cancer care programs province-wide.
• Foster executive-level collaboration to address complex health system challenges.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership skills

Effective communication

Change management

Relationship management

Education

Graduate degree in healthcare management or related field

Job description

Your Opportunity

A tremendous opportunity is available to take your clinical leadership expertise to the next level with Cancer Care Alberta (CCA). We are currently recruiting for a Senior Program Lead (SPL), Clinical Operations to join our provincial team. This rare opportunity arises as we celebrate the retirement of a highly respected leader who has helped shape cancer care in Alberta. Under Alberta’s health system refocus, CCA became a standalone corporation on September 1, 2025, ushering in a new era of autonomy, accountability, and growth. As Senior Program Lead, you are uniquely positioned to shape the future of Cancer Care Alberta—leveraging the organization’s exciting new corporate structure to innovate, elevate services, and leave a lasting mark on cancer care for patients, programs, and staff across the province. As a crucial member of the CCA Executive Leadership Team, the SPL collaborates closely with the Managing Director and has a key executive role providing strategic direction and operational oversight for CCA’s clinical programs. Drawing on deep clinical knowledge and proven leadership experience, the incumbent leads and supports the translation of CCA strategy and priorities into action, setting direction consistent with the overarching vision to deliver the highest level of cancer care and services. This role has significant provincial and organizational impact and holds accountability for establishing, monitoring, and supporting strategies to improve performance, clinical outcomes, and integration with care partners. Leadership, relationship management, change management, and stakeholder engagement are large and complex components of this role, requiring a dynamic, forward-thinking leader committed to quality and continuous improvement. If you are ready to lead transformative changes and leave a lasting legacy in cancer care, apply now!

Description

Reporting to the Managing Director of CCA, the Senior Program Lead (SPL) is accountable for the integration, planning, delivery and evaluation of clinical cancer services and programs across CCA. This role encompasses strategic and operational leadership, complex stakeholder engagement, change management and oversight of people, resources, and fiscal management for CCA’s clinical operations province-wide. The SPL provides indirect leadership to more than 2,500 staff and ensures the effective delivery of cancer services across CCA’s Tertiary Centres (Arthur Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Cross Cancer Institute), Regional Cancer Centre’s (Grande Prairie, Central Alberta, Jack Ady, and Margery Yuill), 11 Community Cancer Centre’s, Supportive Care & Patient Experience Programs, and the Provincial Cancer Pharmacy Program. The SPL leads clinical operational planning initiatives in collaboration with operational and medical leadership to advance the organization’s strategic direction, priorities, and desired outcomes, ensuring alignment with the annual operational plan, the Cancer Roadmap, and the Cancer Strategy Plan. This position provides critical input and recommendations to the Executive Leadership Team on service delivery decisions impacting the overall CCA budget and achievement of operational objectives. The SPL fosters executive-level collaboration to address complex health system challenges, identify opportunities for innovation and drive continuous improvement through strategic direction setting, while supporting effective alignment and mobilization of resources to deliver optimal services for staff, patients and families. Importantly, the SPL champions a highly effective workplace culture grounded in knowledge generation and translation, quality improvement, innovation, and patient-centered care. This position can be located anywhere in Alberta.

• Transition Company: Cancer Care Alberta
• Classification: Senior Program Lead
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Cancer Care Alberta
• Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza
• 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: 07-JAN-2026
• Date Available: 09-FEB-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: $69.77
• Maximum Salary: $125.53
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications

Graduate degree in healthcare management, business administration or a related healthcare field. A minimum of 10 years of progressive, clinical leadership expertise in a complex, diverse healthcare organization/setting. Minimum of 7 years of current experience in a senior leadership or executive leadership role (leading leaders).

Additional Required Qualifications

Extensive practical experience in strategy, policy development, leadership and program management. Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching/teaching, delegation and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Demonstrated ability to use strategic thinking, considering long‑term goals assessing options and implications. Effective communicator with strong organizational skills. Proven ability to foster partnerships and to achieve organizational goals within a large diverse organization and managing with a unionized sector. Demonstrated ability to manage change and create innovative solutions. Dynamic communications skills including public speaking, delivering presentations and reports. Technology proficiency and adaptability including clinical databases, reporting platforms and virtual technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Oncology leadership and/or clinical expertise. Executive leadership courses and training. Clinical training, designations, certification or relevant association memberships. LEADS Framework training and expertise. Program, project or change management certifications.