Lead, Renal Clinical Programs

Job Description

What Ontario Health offers:

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
• a health care spending or wellness spending account
• a premium defined benefit pension plan
• three personal days and two float days annually
• three weeks’ vacation to start (for individual contributors), increasing to four weeks after two years
• career development opportunities
• a collaborative values-based team culture
• a wellness program
• a hybrid working model
• participation in Communities of Inclusion

Join a team that’s driving meaningful change in kidney care across Ontario. As the Lead for Clinical Quality Improvement within the Renal Clinical Programs team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of care for people living with chronic kidney disease.

Here Is What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the development of a strategy to advance equitable access, experience and outcomes for people with chronic kidney disease
• Plan, lead and execute projects to advance equity, inclusion, diversity and anti-racism and drive clinical quality improvement
• Provide project management leadership to ORN’s strategic planning process, ensuring a process that promotes equity, inclusion, diversity and anti-racism
• Promote a patient-focused approach and ensure work is undertaken in alignment with Ontario Health’s values and priorities
• Engage a diverse set of stakeholder groups, internal and external, to collaborate and partner on delivery of key activities and solicit support and buy-in
• Actively manage projects and initiatives, including identifying and effectively communicating with relevant stakeholders, managing project documentation, driving agendas, and providing input in a collaborative setting
• Develop needs assessments, jurisdictional scans, briefing notes, options analyses, impact assessments to create program policies and guidance
• Prepare reports, briefings, policy papers, briefing/issue notes, and presentations for a variety of audiences
• Develop and present material using excellent written, verbal, and graphical communications skills, with ability to express complex concepts effectively to a variety of audiences
• Deliver excellent tactical and strategic thinking
• Approach problems proactively and recommend thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of complex problems
• Provide management and stakeholders with status updates, feedback and appropriate reporting on projects
• Manage multiple projects concurrently
• Promote collaboration and teamwork, including working for consensus and contributing to achievement of team goals

Here is what you will need to be successful

Education And Experience

• An undergraduate degree in public health, health sciences, health administration or a related field is required
• A master’s degree in public health, health sciences, health administration or a related field is preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
• Experience conducting end-to-end planning and execution of program/operational activities within the specific focus area of expertise
• Experience in advancing equity, inclusion, diversity and anti-racism in the health system
• Experience synthesizing and applying best practice recommendations to quality improvement initiatives

Knowledge And Skills

• Demonstrated ability to successfully execute on multiple large-scale, complex, high-risk projects, ideally within a cross-functional structure
• An understanding of Ontario’s cancer care system
• Knowledge of frameworks for evidence review and evaluation and policy development
• Proven ability to problem solve and provide thorough and practical solutions to a wide range of complex problems and approach challenges proactively
• Excellent writing skills including the ability to prepare briefing notes, reports and policy papers
• Excellent oral skills including ability to create and deliver effective presentations and answer questions
• Strong relationship building skills, with demonstrated experience engaging and building relationships and consensus amongst diverse stakeholders, including clinicians and patient and family advisors
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple priorities in a cross-functional team environment and to respond quickly based on timelines and project plans
• Demonstrated ability to successfully execute on multiple large-scale, complex, high-risk projects
• Detail-oriented with excellent organization and time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a self-directed manner with minimal supervision
• Ability to work well under pressure and use good judgment in assessing difficult situations
• Comfortable working in a dynamic fast-paced environment with a degree of uncertainty or ambiguity
• Well-rounded expertise and help facilitate complex interdependencies between projects and with key partners

Location: Ontario Health supports a hybrid work environment and has office locations across the province. We welcome applications from candidates residing anywhere in the province of Ontario.

Employment Type
Permanent Full time

Contract Length
N/A

Salary Band
Band 6

External Application Deadline Date
September 21, 2025

All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members of Black and racialized groups; 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary individuals; and people living with disabilities.

Ontario Health is an accessible employer, and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please email careers@ontariohealth.ca and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider
• Industries

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