About the Role
The Analytics Lead will play a critical role in shaping initiatives within the Social Medicine program to improve care delivery for marginalized and underserved populations. This role exercises considerable judgment and independence in supporting corporate, strategic, and operational initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Translate complex analytics into clear narratives, surfacing opportunities for improvement and enabling evidence-based decisions.
- Partner with clinical programs and leadership to understand needs, align analytics to strategic goals, and build trust in data.
- Design and deliver analytic solutions (dashboards, reports, models) that drive transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Analyze and interpret data from large information databases such as IDS, TPS, EPIC, REDCAP forms, City of Toronto, and IntelliHealth.
- Partner with clinical programs, corporate teams, and leadership to interpret performance data, identify key trends, and generate actionable insights.
- Build trust-based relationships with stakeholders, supporting them in defining data needs, interpreting insights, and embedding analytics into daily workflows.
- Translate complex public health, population health, and social determinants of health information into written reports for various audiences.
- Evaluate analytics solutions for sustainable value and improvement.
- Assist in the interpretation of results and preparation of material for presentation, publication, and/or grants.
- Represent Data & Analytics and the Gattuso Centre professionally with clinical, education, and research teams.
- Lead or contribute to analytic initiatives aligning with UHN and Ontario Health provincial priorities, ensuring timely delivery, risk management, and effective stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain relationships with internal and external partners who use or provide health data and collaborate with all areas of UHN and Data & Analytics.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- An Undergraduate Degree in Health Informatics, Public Health or related field.
- Minimum 3 years of related experience in healthcare analytics, performance management, or related roles.
- Minimum 1 year of related experience in project management.
- Hands-on experience with CIHI datasets, Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Continuing Care Reporting System (CCRS), National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS), or other large data sets (e.g. Wait Times) is preferred.
- Experience designing and developing dashboards, routine, and ad-hoc reports from multiple datasets (e.g. Power BI, Excel, SQL, or compatible tools).
- Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression principles and practices.
- Knowledge of the Ontario health care system and public health and strong foundation in the social determinants of health, population health and health policy is an asset.
- Flexibility working in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Excellent data analysis skills to identify patterns, visualize findings and communicate insights.
- Able to work with minimal supervision on moderately complex tasks with a level of ambiguity.
- Able to work with and balance the needs of clinical, operational, research, and executive teams.
- Exercise diplomacy, discretion, and sound decision-making abilities.
- Able to effectively deal with high-priority unscheduled tasks and problems.
- Experience developing presentations and communications to various stakeholder groups including executive level management.
- Experience in program evaluation.
- Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.
- All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.
- Please ensure you check your email regularly.
- A Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.
- Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.
Skills
- Data storytelling
- Performance insights
- Stakeholder engagement
- Relationship management
- Strategic analytics
- Improvement enablement
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- Communication
- Project management
- Program evaluation
Location
- Toronto General Hospital
- Toronto Western Hospital
Work Type
- Permanent Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 3 years of related experience in healthcare analytics, performance management, or related roles
- Minimum 1 year of related experience in project management
Education Level
- Undergraduate Degree in Health Informatics, Public Health or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $89,739 - $134,586 per annum
Benefits
- Competitive offer packages
- Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
- A flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
- Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)
About the Company
- UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital.
- With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre.
- As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care.
- UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine.
- UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
- UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.
Equal Opportunity
- UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace.
- Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.
- Applicants need to make their requirements known.
