About this role
Competition # : 49748 Department: Health and Wellness Location: HALIFAX Type of Employment: Permanent Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG Closing Date: 16-Sep-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time) About Us
The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we're committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, acute care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we're recruiting leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.
About Our Opportunity
Are you passionate about leading complex policy projects to enhance and support the health care system in Nova Scota? Do you thrive at the intersection of people, process, and problem-solving?
As a Senior Policy Analyst with the Policy and Legislation team in the Department of Health and Wellness, you will have the opportunity to provide policy leadership, decision support, and expertise to multiple specialty areas, on major policy, regulatory, and legislative initiatives. This position is consistently called upon to lead, from start to finish, a variety of legislative, regulatory, policy, and process initiatives that that are strategically aligned with government priorities.
This Senior Policy Analyst role offers a unique opportunity to provide mentorship to analysts and leaders within assigned branches on effective policy development and take overall responsibility for policy requirements for a division or branch. You will work closely with subject matter experts and leaders to make effective recommendations with a focus on strategic decision-making and impact of recommendations.
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