PLANNING, PROGRAMMING & RESEARCH OFFICER (1565) at CBHSSJB

Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay • Full-time • Canada, Canada, Canada • 1w ago

SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Person who is responsible for one or more programs with a view to providing professional assistance for the development of services. She/he conducts research activities that are necessary for identifying and assessing needs and resources. She/he designs and proposes development plans and programs in order to ensure adequate service planning. She/he provides advice concerning the implementation or improvement of programs and/or services. She/he may participate in various teaching or training activities.

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
Under the supervision of the Director, Program Development and Support, and in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery services, the Coordinator of Birthing home, as well as the Planning Programming and Research Officer for Midwifery Education Program, the incumbent:
• Ensures different levels of planning for Midwifery services:
o Elaborates midwifery service framework to support its strategic development;
o Develops action plans for midwifery services implementation and expansion;
• Conducts needs assessment, services evaluation, and carry out situation analyses, including state of situations reports;
• Contributes to the development of policies and procedures for midwifery services;
• Contributes to organize, coordinate, animate and report on meetings and/or working groups such as, but not limited to:
o the MoreOB group
o the Perinatal Care Coordinating Working Group
• Contributes to the development and implementation of data system for midwifery services, as well as overseeing the data mining and care information use to support service offer, and decision making;
• Collaborates to the onboarding of new employees of the unit,
• Assume all other tasks requested by the immediate supervisor.

REQUIREMENTS
Education:
• Bachelor degree in health, social science, administration, or another appropriate discipline.
• Master’s degree is an asset.

Experience:
• Three (3) years of relevant experience in services planning or program evaluation

Knowledge and Abilities:
• Proven experience in health and social services planning;
• Abilities to contribute to program development and service implementation;
• Good knowledge of interdisciplinary team functioning;
• Ability to grasp the context and the health and social issues related to First Nation communities;
• Great ability to apply Eeyou/Eenou (Cree) values, culture, and teachings into programs and service planning;
• Good knowledge of the MSSS and Quebec Public Health programs, laws, regulations, orientations and trends, especially for community health promotion and prevention;
• Excellent critical thinking and organizational skills;
• Result-oriented, autonomous and flexible;
• Ability to multi-task and to deal with pressure and deadlines;
• Team player skills and proven ability to maintain excellent professional relationships with colleagues and partners;
• Excellent communication skills for written and oral presentations;
• Good abilities in computer MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.);
• Familiarity with clinical information systems and statistical computer applications is an asset.

LANGUAGE
• Fluent in English;
• Fluency in Cree is an asset.

OTHER
• Willing to travel to the communities.