Executive Director, Human Resources

Your Opportunity:

Help shape the future of healthcare in Alberta! Primary Care Alberta (PCA) is seeking a strategic leader for the role of Executive Director, Human Resources (EDHR). The EDHR provides leadership for the development, implementation, and long-term vision of PCA's integrated workforce strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and provincial health system objectives. An influential and collaborative leader, the EDHR plays a critical role in advancing PCA’s commitment to a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace—fostering a culture that supports engagement, innovation, and high performance across the organization. Politically astute and coalition-savvy, you know how to build partnerships that advance strategic goals. As a provincial role, the position location is negotiable within Alberta—giving you flexibility to design your ideal lifestyle. Primary Care Alberta is a made-in-Alberta solution to improve access to the primary care services Albertans rely on. By delivering coordinated services, Primary Care Alberta allows for valued healthcare professionals to do what they do best ─ care for you. Together, we are creating a future where compassionate, timely and effective healthcare is available to every Albertan at every stage of life.

Description:

The Executive Director, Human Resources (EDHR) is responsible for the development, implementation, and vision of Primary Care Alberta’s (PCA’s) overall people strategy, identification of organizational workforce priorities, and oversight of the implementation of people and health professions programs, policies, and services that are delivered through the service agreement with Health Shared Services. It ensures delivery of human resources, workplace health and safety and health professions and practice services are effectively aligned with the strategic direction and culture of PCA. Reporting to the Executive Lead, Strategic Services, the EDHR is accountable for ensuring availability of an integrated human resources service for PCA and acts as strategic counsel to the Chief Executive Officer and the executive leadership team on all aspects of people-based solutions and services. This role ensures delivery of human resources services as set out in the service agreement with Health Shared Services and is responsible for creation, execution, monitoring, and reporting of integrated strategic workforce plans and a people strategy across PCA. The EDHR is accountable for internal communications, engagement, and change management with the PCA workforce. The EDHR is accountable to foster relationships, both internal and external to the organization and to support integration and coordination of service delivery, including, but not limited to HR Business Partnerships, Talent and Workforce Strategies, Labour Relations, HR Shared Services, and Workplace Health & Safety.