Data Governance Lead – BA3 Client: Service New Brunswick (SNB) / New Brunswick Department of Health

Program: Provincial Clinical Information Solution (Symbio Program)

Location: Remote within Canada

Travel: Must be able to travel to New Brunswick at least once per month

Contract: August 17, 2026 – August 16, 2028

Extension: Two optional 1-year extensions

Hours: 7.5 hours/day

Engagement: Full-time Contract

Openings: 2

About the Opportunity Service New Brunswick / New Brunswick Department of Health is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead (BA3) to support the Provincial Clinical Information Solution (CIS) / Symbio Program .

New Brunswick is undertaking a major healthcare transformation initiative to transition from multiple standalone hospital information systems toward a unified, standardized and integrated provincial Clinical Information Solution .

The Data Governance Lead will provide strategic leadership in establishing, implementing and maturing a province-wide health data governance program that ensures health system data is trusted, secure, appropriately governed, ethically used and effectively leveraged for public benefit.

The successful candidate will serve as a key integrator between health policy, privacy, clinical operations, analytics, digital health platforms and data governance , translating legislative and policy requirements into practical operational governance across the provincial healthcare system.

Key Responsibilities Provincial Data Governance Strategy & Framework

- Lead the design, development and implementation of a provincial health data governance framework .
- Establish governance policies, standards, decision rights, accountability models and operating practices across the health data lifecycle.
- Define and implement data ownership, stewardship and custodianship models across the health system.
- Develop data classification schemas and governance artefacts supporting consistent, secure and compliant use of health information.
- Align the data governance framework with provincial digital health initiatives, the Symbio CIS transformation and enterprise analytics.

Legislative, Policy & Compliance

- Provide strategic recommendations regarding legislative, regulatory and policy approaches supporting health data governance.
- Translate provincial health information legislation, including PHIPPA , into practical governance policies and operational guidance.
- Support initiatives involving privacy, consent, information network designation and secondary use of health data .
- Develop and implement data standards, policies and procedures that support responsible management and ethical use of personal health information.

Data Governance & Stewardship

- Establish and support provincial data governance committees, councils and working groups.
- Define explicit roles and responsibilities for Data Owners, Data Stewards and Data Custodians .
- Develop and promote common data dictionaries, standards and governance practices.
- Establish appropriate oversight, decision-making and escalation mechanisms.
- Champion data quality, standardization and interoperability across the health system.

Analytics & Secondary Use of Health Data

- Enable secure, compliant and efficient secondary use of health data for:

- Health system planning

- Analytics

- Performance management

- Population health management

- Research

- Policy development
- Collaborate with analytics and privacy teams to establish appropriate data access controls.
- Develop strategies and governance models that enable ethical and responsible secondary use of personal health information.

Privacy, Consent & Access Management

- Collaborate with Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs) and Privacy departments on health data governance.
- Support the development of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) , privacy policies and procedures.
- Lead/support development of a scalable Consent Management Framework .




- Develop appropriate Access Control frameworks for the Symbio Program and future provincial data assets and systems.
- Ensure personal health information is managed and safeguarded appropriately.

Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within the Department of Health, RHAs, SNB and broader health system.

- Engage effectively with

- Health system executives

- Clinical leaders

- Physicians/clinicians

- Privacy leaders and CPOs

- Business stakeholders

- Technical teams

- Operational teams

- Analytics teams
- Government and public-sector partners
- Facilitate complex discussions and build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Manage politically sensitive and complex issues with professionalism and tact.
- Support patient engagement and public understanding of health data use where required.

Program / Project Leadership

- Lead planning, execution and delivery of data governance and stewardship initiatives.
- Drive implementation of governance strategies, policies, standards and operating models.
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams and ensure deliverables are completed to a high standard.
- Provide executive-level reporting, presentations, recommendations and program materials.
- Ensure stakeholder alignment, adoption and successful implementation of governance practices.

Requirements Mandatory Qualifications – MUST HAVE Candidates must clearly demonstrate every requirement below . Experience should be presented with the client/employer, project/role, dates in Month/Year format, duration, responsibilities and outcomes . The Submission Matrix specifically requires this level of detail for evaluation.

M1 – Education University degree in one of the following:

- Healthcare Sciences
- Health Administration
- Business Administration
- Health Informatics
- Information Technology

OR an equivalent combination of applicable education and experience. M2 – Canadian Healthcare Data Governance – 10+ Years 10+ years of demonstrated experience leading Canadian healthcare data governance strategy, planning, policy and implementation within a province or territory comparable to New Brunswick in terms of size or complexity.

Candidates should demonstrate hands-on experience with:

- Healthcare data governance
- Data governance strategy
- Governance planning
- Governance policy development
- Governance implementation
- Provincial/territorial healthcare environments
- Large-scale health data initiatives

M3 – Government / Provincial Health Leadership – 10+ Years 10+ years of progressive leadership experience within government , focused on:

- Health system planning
- Provincial healthcare initiatives
- Data initiatives
- Digital health initiatives
- Large-scale public-sector transformation

The candidate must demonstrate progressively increasing leadership responsibility within government/public healthcare environments. M4 – Availability Candidate must be available to start on or about August 17, 2026 , or earlier if possible.

Scored Qualifications – HIGH PRIORITY Candidates with the following experience will be strongly preferred and should clearly demonstrate these capabilities in their resumes and submission matrices.

S1 – Public Healthcare Data & Digital Health – 10+ Years 10+ years of experience working in the public healthcare sector , including government, provincial agencies or acute-care environments, leading data-related initiatives such as:

- Data governance
- Data policy
- Health data strategy
- Large-scale digital health initiatives
- Healthcare transformation




- Provincial health information initiatives

S2 – Progressive Leadership / Large Teams – 10+ Years 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in public-sector healthcare , including extensive experience with direct people management and leadership of large, effective teams .

Candidates should demonstrate

- People leadership
- Team management
- Organizational leadership
- Cross-functional leadership
- Large-scale healthcare program leadership

S3 – Digital Health Strategy & Roadmaps – 8+ Years 8+ years of experience developing digital health strategies, policies and roadmaps at provincial/territorial scale , particularly initiatives supporting the ethical secondary use of health data for:

- Health system planning
- Population health management
- Research
- Analytics
- Policy development
- Other secondary-use cases

S4 – Stakeholder Management – 10+ Years 10+ years of strong stakeholder management experience involving public and private-sector stakeholders and diverse teams, including:

- Clinical
- Business
- Technical
- Operational
- Government
- Healthcare leadership

Must demonstrate the ability to facilitate discussions, resolve competing perspectives and develop consensus. S5 – Executive & Clinical Engagement – 8+ Years 8+ years of experience engaging and collaborating with health system executives, clinical leaders and other system stakeholders to drive system-level transformation.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to:

- Influence senior stakeholders
- Navigate complex healthcare environments
- Manage politically sensitive matters
- Build consensus
- Drive organizational/system transformation
- Communicate effectively with executive and clinical leadership

S6 – Privacy, CPO & PHI Governance – 5+ Years 5+ years of experience collaborating with Privacy departments and Chief Privacy Officers (CPOs) on initiatives involving:

- Policy and procedure development
- Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
- Consent management
- Privacy governance
- Personal health information
- Ethical use of health information
- Access controls
- Health data privacy initiatives

S7 – Executive Communication & Reporting – 8+ Years 8+ years of excellent verbal and written communication experience , including:

- Executive-level reporting
- Program-level reporting
- Executive presentations
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder presentations
- Governance documentation
- High-quality project deliverables
- Stakeholder engagement and satisfaction

Key Deliverables The successful Data Governance Lead will be expected to contribute to or deliver:

- Provincial data governance framework covering data ownership, governance, stewardship and custodianship .
- Policies and procedures supporting the prudent management, safeguarding and ethical use of personal health information.
- Support for modernization of health information legislation, including PHIPPA .
- Provincial data standards, policies and procedures.
- Health data classification schema, including categories such as public, internal and confidential.
- Symbio Data Strategy aligned with the Symbio Business Intelligence strategy.
- Provincial data strategy aligned with the provincial BI strategy.
- Consent Management Framework for the Symbio Program that can scale provincially.
- Access Control framework supporting the Symbio Program and future provincial data assets/systems.

Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal candidate is a senior healthcare data governance executive/leader with extensive Canadian public-sector experience and a proven record of leading provincial-scale healthcare transformation. Strong candidates will typically bring:

- 10+ years of healthcare data governance leadership
- 10+ years of government/public-sector health system leadership
- Provincial/territorial healthcare transformation experience
- Digital health strategy and roadmap development
- Enterprise/provincial data governance framework development
- Data stewardship and custodianship expertise

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