Manager - Contracts, Academic & Community Partnerships

 Req ID: 198730
Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible within the Province 
Department: IPPL Affiliate Placement
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 24-Mar-25

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

The Interprofessional Practice and Learning (IPPL) team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.

Academic and Community Partnerships, a provincial IPPL team, works collaboratively with zone IPPL teams, operations teams including preceptors, across all zones as well as key external partners such as academic partners to provide support for learners, create a sense of belonging and to ensure quality learner experiences. Academic and Community Partnerships encourages innovative and unique processes related to learners and students to ensure continued excellence in quality person-centred care and practice. 

About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Director, Academic & Community Partnerships, the Manager of Contacts, Academic & Community Partnerships fosters responsive and innovative approaches to learning by leading the sourcing, preparation and negation, and acceptance of a diverse range of agreements, grants, contracts, subcontracts, licensing and brokering agreements and collaborative partnerships for Nova Scotia Health (NSH) IPPL and the internal and external stakeholders they work with in accordance with all laws, regulations and polices in Nova Scotia Health. The manager serves as the sourcing and contract expert, consulting with and advising IPPL leadership and their stakeholders on major and/or critical contract negations to ensure appropriate evaluation of potential liabilities and assessment of risk.

While fostering innovation, the manager identifies and assesses legal risk for IPPL legal contracts, linking with the NSH legal team to provide recommendations and risk mitigation alternatives. The Manager ensures efficient coordination and implementation of contract terms and conditions across IPPL with close collaboration and frequent communication with key stakeholders, industry, and government.

The Manager coordinates the activities of contract subject matter experts from simple and routine to highly complex contractual arrangements of strategic importance to IPPL. The Manager directs identification, development and implementation of entire range of contract formation, negotiation, and post award management and the development and administration of policies and processes in accordance with stakeholder expectations and corporate objectives.
The position is accountable for working across NSH IPPL to identify priorities in collaboration with broader system partners in addition to leading administration, management and capacity building as it relates to contract development. 

The Manager facilitates and champions a learning environment that aligns with the current and proposed future state of the Nova Scotia Health and work closely with IPPL Directors to ensures efficient coordination and implementation of contract terms and conditions across the organization with close collaboration and frequent communication with key customers, industry, and government. This work fosters innovative approaches with education institutions, government and other partners. They also work with IWK and the Continuing Care Sector as appropriate.
 

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Master’s Degree preferred
• Five to seven (5-7) years of directly applicable contracting and sourcing leadership experience required.
• Proficiency and ability to review analyse, negotiate, draft and manage complex contractual documents and relationships including but not limited to analysing 
• Knowledge of NS Health procurement processes including NSH Financial Signing Authority policy, internal audit processes, SAP practices preferred.
• Effective communicator, including the ability to effectively communicate and provide support on complex negotiations.
• Leadership qualities, including a commitment to support IPPL to ensure complete, accurate and timely supporting contracts.
• Understands the business care and present financial/analytical issues and profit and loss implications based on analytics tools.
• Knowledge of various legal contracts such as Project Charters, MOUs
• Organizational skills, including ability to manage concurrent projects with shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Time management skills. Including the ability to work to deadline and within budget.
• Problem solving skills; takes initiative to find solutions to unique problems.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships and interact with all clients in scope.
• High level of competence in both written and verbal communication.
• Experience working with diversity of staff and stakeholders, with knowledge of cultural competence, diversity and social inclusion.

Please ensure your resume and cover letter are up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications

Hours

Permanent Full-Time: 75 Hours Bi-Weekly

Compensation and Benefits

$42.94 - $53.67 hourly
$83,727 - $104,659 annually

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. 

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.