Your Opportunity:

Are you passionate about shaping how healthcare leaders and employees learn, grow, and lead? Are you energized by helping leaders, teams, and organizations grow stronger, navigate change, and build cultures of continuous improvement? Do you bring deep expertise in organizational behaviour, change management, and human dynamics — paired with the confidence to act as a trusted advisor in complex environments? If you're a skilled leadership consultant, coach, and advanced facilitator who thrives on building relationships and delivering impactful learning experiences, the Senior Advisor, Talent Development & Learning (Delivery) role may be the opportunity for you. Join a talented team of learning and development professionals dedicated to strengthening leader, team, and organizational effectiveness across the provincial healthcare system. Reporting to the Manager, Talent Development & Learning (Delivery), you'll partner with leaders to design tailored support interventions and facilitate formal learning courses and programs that drive meaningful change.

Description:

As Senior Advisor, you bring advanced expertise in leadership development, assessment, coaching, consulting, intervention design, and facilitation. As an internal organizational effectiveness consultant, you partner with leaders across the provincial healthcare system to align strategy, culture, people, and processes — navigating complexity with confidence as a trusted advisor and change agent. You're skilled at assessing organizational, leader, and team effectiveness using diagnostic tools, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and direct observation. You analyze structures, work processes, culture, communication patterns, decision-making, and employee engagement to surface meaningful improvement opportunities. You translate assessment findings into strategic, targeted interventions and action plans that strengthen leadership capability, workplace culture, and team performance. As an advanced facilitator, you cultivate trust and psychological safety to create brave, engaging learning experiences in meetings, sessions, and formal programs. Grounded in human-centered design and systems thinking, you collaborate with internal Centers of Excellence and partners to deliver customized client support. You build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders and bring proven experience in designing and facilitating senior leadership retreats and strategic meetings that drive collaboration and alignment.

Transition Company: Health Shared Services Classification: Senior Advisor Union: Exempt Unit and Program: Talent Development and Learning, Talent Management Strategies Primary Location: Southport Tower Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta Negotiable Location: Provincial Employee Class: Regular Full Time FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 08-SEP-2026 Date Available: 21-SEP-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 2 Shifts per cycle: 10 Shift Pattern: Days Days Off: Saturday/Sunday Minimum Salary: $38.73 Maximum Salary: $66.42 Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications:

University degree in Organizational Development, Adult Learning, Education, Human Resources, Social Sciences, Coaching, Conflict Management, or a related field (equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered). Minimum five (5) years of experience in a healthcare setting. Minimum five (5) years of practical experience in: Leadership, team, and organizational development consulting. Facilitating formal courses and programs. Designing and facilitating customized leader and team learning sessions. 1:1 leader effectiveness coaching. Leading client meetings and strategic conversations. Change management consulting. Demonstrated strengths in: Adult learning principles and human-centered design. Analytical thinking, project management, facilitation, and creative problem-solving. Internal consulting with diverse stakeholders and client groups. Designing learning across multiple methodologies and modalities. Interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills. Coaching, mentoring, and developing others. Awareness of emerging trends in adult education, leadership, and workplace learning.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Skilled at building collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. Strong project management skills across planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation. Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and virtual collaboration tools. Adaptable in environments with ambiguity, change, and shifting priorities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage at all organizational levels. Strong organizational and time management skills in fast-paced, deadline-driven settings. Solid grounding in evidence-informed research and evaluation to support decision-making and program design.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in Leadership, Education, Organizational Development, or a related discipline. ICF Coaching designation (CEC, CPCC, ACC, or PCC). Certifications such as CSTD, CACE, CCM, Prosci, or similar. Experience in a large, complex organization — healthcare preferred. Strong understanding of healthcare workforce development needs.

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