Clinical Informatics Director

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Clinical Informatics Director based in Canada.

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Informatics Director to lead a large-scale, multi-site clinical information system implementation across multiple healthcare facilities. In this senior leadership role, you will bridge clinical practice, digital health technology, and enterprise system design to deliver effective, standardized clinical workflows. You will collaborate with physicians, nurses, clinical leaders, technical teams, and executive stakeholders to align system capabilities with patient care requirements. Your expertise will help ensure clinical systems support patient safety, clinical quality, operational efficiency, and consistent care delivery across sites. You will oversee clinical governance, technical build coordination, system validation, go-live readiness, and post-implementation stabilization. This opportunity offers the chance to influence a major healthcare transformation initiative while strengthening clinician engagement, system adoption, and continuous improvement. The position is fully remote in New Brunswick, with periodic travel to project locations as required, and is offered on a contract basis.

Accountabilities

• 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 responses 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