Senior Executive Director, Physician Services

**Competition # :** 50449 **Department:** Health and Wellness **Location:** HALIFAX **Type of Employment:** Permanent **Union Status:** Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG **Closing Date:** 29-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time) **About Us** ------------ The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we’re committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference. **About Our Opportunity** ------------------------- As the Senior Executive Director, Physician Services, you will be a member of the Department of Health and Wellness Executive team and a trusted advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister and the Deputy Minister. You will provide strategic leadership across a broad portfolio that supports the effective operation, transformation and sustainability of Nova Scotia’s health system. You will lead key areas including corporate and business planning, health human resources, information technology, emergency management, administrative services and asset management. Working across the Department and with Nova Scotia Health, the IWK Health Centre, other government departments and external partners, you will ensure that people, resources, technology and corporate systems are aligned with health system priorities. You will contribute to setting strategic objectives, policy direction and performance expectations and will help translate government priorities into coordinated plans and action. You will lead evidence-informed approaches to health workforce planning, corporate accountability and resource management while supporting timely, high-quality decision making at the most senior levels of government. This is an opportunity to lead in a complex and evolving environment where collaboration, innovation and sound judgement are essential. You will build strong partnerships, bring together diverse perspectives and lead transformational change that strengthens health system performance and contributes to better health outcomes for Nova Scotians. As Senior Executive Director, Physician Services, you will report to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Health and Wellness. **Primary Accountabilities** ---------------------------- As the Senior Executive Director, you will provide executive leadership across a diverse portfolio of corporate and health system responsibilities. You will: * Lead corporate strate