Clinical Informatics Director

About the company

How Jobgether works We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether?

Your tasks

• Lead clinical informatics activities throughout the implementation of a large-scale, multi-site clinical information system (CIS), ensuring alignment between clinical priorities, system design, and organizational objectives.
• Standardize clinical workflows across healthcare facilities while accommodating approved local variations and maintaining consistency in clinical practices.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, clinical leaders, and multidisciplinary stakeholders to gather requirements, assess operational needs, and translate clinical priorities into effective system solutions.
• Lead clinical governance processes, facilitate working groups, coordinate decision-making, and oversee approval mechanisms to ensure alignment across participating facilities.
• Translate clinical requirements, workflow analyses, and approved designs into technical configuration and system build specifications in collaboration with technical teams.
• Oversee clinical informatics and technical build teams, including resource allocation, work prioritization, testing activities, release management, upgrades, and implementation milestones.
• Direct clinical validation, system testing, release readiness assessments, cutover planning, and go-live preparation to support safe and effective implementation.
• Provide leadership during go-live activities, incident management, issue resolution, and post-implementation stabilization, ensuring timely response to clinical and operational challenges.
• Embed patient safety, clinical quality, and evidence-based practices into system configuration, workflow design, and implementation decisions.
• Develop and support clinician education, change management, communication, and adoption initiatives to facilitate successful transitions to new digital workflows.
• Monitor program progress, identify risks and dependencies, track issues, and provide actionable recommendations and status updates to senior leadership.
• Mentor team members, facilitate knowledge transfer, and contribute to the development of sustainable internal clinical informatics capabilities and continuous optimization practices.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Health Sciences, or a related discipline. An equivalent combination of education and substantial senior-level clinical informatics experience may be considered.
• At least 10 years of experience in clinical informatics, enterprise EHR/EMR/CIS implementation or optimization, and clinical workflow design within a healthcare system, including progressively responsible leadership experience.
• A minimum of 5 years in a leadership or senior advisory role overseeing clinical informatics, clinical system build activities, or clinical workflow teams within a multi-site acute-care healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated experience standardizing, redesigning, and localizing clinical workflows across multiple healthcare facilities while balancing enterprise requirements with approved site-specific needs.
• Strong expertise in clinical informatics and enterprise electronic health record systems, including the ability to translate clinical requirements into technical configuration specifications and build activities.
• Proven experience engaging physicians and other clinical stakeholders, facilitating clinical governance, managing competing priorities, and supporting collaborative decision-making and system adoption.
• Hands-on knowledge of clinical validation, testing strategies, release readiness, cutover planning, go-live execution, incident management, and post-implementation stabilization.
• A strong understanding of patient safety, clinical quality, clinician education, adult learning principles, change management, and continuous improvement in digital healthcare environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, coordinate cross-functional activities, manage resources, mentor professionals, and facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess program risks, resolve complex issues, monitor progress, and communicate recommendations to senior leadership.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in both English and French, with the ability to engage effectively with clinical, technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and travel periodically to project locations as required.

What we offer

• Competitive hourly compensation: CAD$100–$110 per hour, depending on the applicable contractual terms.
• Remote work arrangement: Work remotely from New Brunswick, Canada, with periodic travel to project sites as needed.
• Contract opportunity: Contribute to a significant, multi-site healthcare technology transformation initiative.
• Long-term project engagement: The advertised contract runs from November 2, 2026, to November 1, 2028, with the initial job description also indicating a 12-month duration; the final contract term should be confirmed with the hiring team.
• Professional impact: Help shape clinical information systems, improve clinical workflows, and support patient safety and quality of care across multiple healthcare facilities.
• Leadership and development: Apply your expertise to complex enterprise implementations while mentoring teams and supporting the growth of internal clinical informatics capabilities.

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