Job Description

Req ID: 209998
Location: Flexible within the province
Department: PH Healthy Communities (Provincial)
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 26-Sep-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 to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.
About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager, Healthy Communities (Science and System Performance) the Senior Policy Analyst provides leadership in the areas of policy development, facilitation and project management, planning and accountability, monitoring systems and evaluation, provincial standards, best and promising practices, and evidence-based decision making for Public health - Healthy communities. The Senior Policy Analyst holds content expertise in healthy public policy processes, public health sciences, knowledge translation and the implementation of Healthy Communities Standards and protocols.
The Senior Policy Analyst provides strategic analysis and advice on issues impacting healthy communities and population health outcomes to support Science and System performance, Healthy Communities, and public health leadership. The Senior Policy Analyst leads work teams and manages projects to advance provincial Healthy Communities priority areas and assists in developing strategic provincial Healthy Communities plans that is supported by provincial evaluations, human resource and financial planning, monitoring systems and continuous quality improvement mechanisms.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Baccalaureate degree in public health, health promotion, or other relevant field. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant leadership experience and providing strategic, evidence-based decision support with progressive accountabilities for standards development, evaluation, and implementation, advising on healthy public policy, and adoption of best practices for public health. Demonstrated knowledge of public health system
• Excellent leadership, organizational and decision skills.
• Experience in leading complex change.
• Expertise in healthy public policy processes, public health sciences, healthy equity, health promotion practice and non-communicable disease prevention.
• Evidence-based collaborative problem solving of complex multifaceted issues.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills that are responsive to audience needs
• Competency in evidence-based practice and critical appraisal
• Strong analysis and synthesis skills to inform strategy development and organizational planning
• Expertise in financial planning and monitoring
• Demonstrated expertise in project management and knowledge of issue tracking, issue management and escalation.
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and approaches
• Experience in development standards, protocols, and guidelines to support Public Health, Healthy Communities Program and workforce development plans and strategies
• Experience in using evidence-based decision making to support workforce planning and development
• Ability to analyze and interpret, monitor, and report on quantitative and qualitative data
• Establish provincial reports, indicator dashboards and knowledge translation plans.
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours

• Permanent, Full-time position, 75 Hours Bi-weekly

Compensation and Benefits
$38.36 - $47.95 Hourly
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.

Skills Required