Our Burnaby area client is a leader in the support and provision of healthcare services to the British Columbia public.

The client is seeking an Expert Project Manager on a contract basis to support Provincial Digital Services activities.

Project Description:

Provincial Digital Services (PDS) delivers provincial digital health strategies and business transformations by relentlessly focusing on the end user and the end-to-end health services journey for everyone in British Columbia. We concentrate on the design and delivery of digital health tools and platforms to support the ongoing evolution of a connected health system and digitally enabled health care. By collaborating with all provincial health sector partners, we ensure an equitable approach to addressing health sector priorities.

PDS is part of the Provincial Digital Health & Information Services (PDHIS) portfolio that was formed in July 2022 to enable our BC health system to be more effective digitally and virtually.  PDHIS brings together many organizational units from different parts of PHSA into one portfolio and includes a close partnership with the Ministry of Health to deliver on the BC Digital Health Strategy.

This engagement supports the advancement of British Columbia’s provincial laboratory strategy, focusing on the evolution, sustainability, and long‑term direction of provincial lab services. The work emphasizes coordinated planning, communication, partner alignment, and delivery oversight to enable a modern, resilient lab ecosystem that supports clinical care, operational effectiveness, and provincial priorities.

Advancing the lab strategy requires a complex, multi‑stakeholder approach spanning clinical, operational, organizational, and technical domains. This work includes establishing a clear understanding of current‑state lab service dependencies, architecture, guiding decisions around sequencing and readiness for change, supporting transition planning across partner organizations, and ensuring patient safety, service continuity, and data stewardship throughout periods of change. Strong governance, communications, and change leadership are critical to enabling confidence and alignment across provincial health sector partners.

Anticipated services include:

Provincial Digital Services (PDS), within the Provincial Digital Health & Information Services (PDHIS) portfolio, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to provide leadership across this lab transformation effort. The Project Manager will focus on orchestrating the work required to move the organization toward its future lab state, aligning stakeholders, managing interdependencies, and ensuring that legacy solution transitions are delivered in a way that supports broader strategic outcomes rather than being treated as isolated technical activities.

The role will work closely with client and leadership, clinical and operational partners, regional health authorities, vendors, and Ministry of Health stakeholders to plan and manage timelines, risks, and decision points across the lab services landscape. The Project Manager will also support executive‑level reporting and issue escalation, ensuring alignment with the provincial lab strategy and related initiatives, and enabling informed decision‑making as the organization progresses toward a modernized, sustainable future state for laboratory services.

• Scope of Work

○       Confirm and maintain plan (schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical path) for the lab strategy.

○       Establish and run project governance (status reporting, RAID log, decision tracking, change control, and escalation paths).

○       Coordinate with business, clinical, and technical stakeholders across BC Health Organizations to validate scope, readiness, and cutover activities.

○       Oversee delivery of decommissioning workstreams (e.g., application retirement, data retention/archiving, interface and integration changes, access removal, vendor offboarding, infrastructure teardown, and operational handover).

○       Manage risks and continuity planning to ensure no unintended disruption to downstream systems, reporting, or patient/clinical workflows.

○       Support procurement/vendor management activities as required (RFP and SOW coordination, deliverable acceptance, and invoice validation).

○       Develop and execute stakeholder communications, including change impacts, timelines, and readiness requirements.

• Key Deliverables

○       Project charter and integrated project plan (including workstreams, resourcing, milestones, and dependencies).

○       Governance cadence, meeting materials, and weekly/bi-weekly executive status reports.

○       Comprehensive RAID log and change control register.

○       Develop and maintain runbook/cutover plans (including validation, rollback/contingency approaches).

○       Data disposition and retention plan aligned with applicable policies (including records management, privacy, and security requirements).

○       Operational transition/handover package and closure report (lessons learned, final budget/schedule variance, and sign-offs).

• Timeline of Engagement

○       Initial phase (Weeks 1–4): Introduction, discovery, confirmation of scope and dependencies, baseline plan, governance start-up.

○       Delivery phase (Months 2–TBC): Workstream coordination, readiness, communications, deliverable tracking, risk management.

Closure phase (final 2–4 weeks): Cutover/retirement completion, handover, documentation, and project closure.

Maximum number of candidate submissions: 1

Note that due to cost and logistics factors, our client has a preference for candidates residing local to this opportunity.  If suitable please apply today!  There is an excellent chance of extension.  Deadline is May 9, 2026.

• BC Health sector experience: Demonstrated familiarity and experience delivering initiatives within the British Columbia health sector (e.g., PHSA, regional Health Authorities, Ministry of Health, Shared Services), including working within multi-stakeholder governance and inter-organizational delivery models.
• Project leadership: Minimum 10+ years’ experience leading large-scale, complex projects/programs, including senior stakeholder reporting and executive-level governance.
• Decommissioning / transition experience: Proven experience planning and executing application/system decommissioning, service transitions, or major technology retirements, including dependency management and service continuity planning.
• Digital health / IM/IT: Experience working with enterprise IM/IT environments, integrations/interfaces, data migration/archiving, identity and access management, and operational readiness.
• Privacy, security, and records: Working knowledge of healthcare privacy and information security requirements and practices (including secure data handling, access controls, and records retention/disposition planning).
• Change and communications: Demonstrated ability to plan and execute communications and change activities to support stakeholder readiness and adoption of new processes/services.
• Education/credentials: Relevant post-secondary degree/diploma and project management certification (e.g., PMP) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Core competencies: Excellent facilitation, negotiation, documentation, and issue-resolution skills; strong ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver to tight timelines.