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About the role

  • Vice-President shaping the Canadian Medical Association’s national healthcare policy agenda. Leading evidence-informed solutions, advocacy alignment, stakeholder relationships, and public policy strategy across Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Establish the strategic direction and long-term vision for the CMA’s public policy portfolio
  • Steward the enterprise health policy agenda and align priorities with organizational strategy, emerging system needs, physician and member perspectives, and healthcare improvement opportunities
  • Position the policy function as a source of forward-looking, actionable solutions to complex healthcare challenges
  • Identify emerging opportunities and translate research, evidence, physician insight, and system knowledge into credible policy options
  • Build relationships and support to move ideas from consultation and organizational positioning toward influence and adoption
  • Shape the CMA’s long-term policy perspective on healthcare delivery, workforce sustainability, health equity, innovation, access to care, system performance, and evolving physician and patient needs
  • Connect policy development with advocacy, communications, media, engagement, research, and partnership strategies
  • Ensure policy priorities are informed by meaningful consultation and translated into clear organizational positions, compelling narratives, and coordinated approaches
  • Represent the CMA’s policy perspectives and healthcare expertise in strategic forums, policy discussions, and national dialogue
  • Build and sustain relationships with physicians, patients, governments, medical and professional organizations, health system leaders, researchers, and other healthcare and public policy partners across Canada
  • Convene expertise, build consensus, and advance practical healthcare solutions
  • Provide leadership and oversight to the broader policy function
  • Foster a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative culture
  • Support leadership development and succession
  • Ensure strong governance, responsible resource stewardship, risk management, and operational performance

Requirements

  • At least a decade or more of progressive experience in health policy, healthcare strategy, health system leadership, and public policy within a healthcare environment
  • Experience leading public policy and healthcare strategy at a senior level
  • Ability to develop strategic direction and long-term vision for a public policy portfolio
  • Ability to translate research, evidence, physician insight, and system knowledge into credible policy options
  • Ability to build relationships with physicians, patients, governments, medical and professional organizations, health system leaders, researchers, and other partners across Canada
  • Ability to lead consultation, organizational positioning, advocacy, communications, media, engagement, research, and partnership strategies
  • Ability to establish priorities, performance expectations, and measures of success
  • Leadership development and succession-planning capability
  • Knowledge of governance, resource stewardship, risk management, and operational performance

Benefits

  • Accommodation for employees with disabilities, accessibility needs, and other protected human rights characteristics, to the point of undue hardship
  • Reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities
  • Inclusive culture where employees can be their authentic selves and are valued for diverse personal experiences and perspectives

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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