Planning, programming and Research Officer - NRBHSS

The Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services (NRBHSS), incorporated under the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement

(section 15) as well as the Act respecting health services and social services, covers the entire territory located north of the 55th parallel.

Its mission is to adapt health and social services programs to the population’s needs and the region’s realities and to ensure efficient

organization of the resources made available to the Nunavik region.

The regional board seeks to fill the following temporary assignment:

Planning, programming and research officer

Surveillance, planning and research

Posting 2025-009

Reporting to the Director of Public Health and under the supervision of the Surveillance and Planning

Coordinator, the role of the Officer will be to lead the development and writing of the Nunavik Regional Public

Health Surveillance Plan, ensuring that it is consistent with the surveillance strategy and objectives of the

organization.

In addition, the officer will coordinate and facilitate the various activities required to develop the surveillance

plan. This person will also work closely with other public health teams and external stakeholders to ensure that

the plan reflects Nunavik's public health priorities and operational context.

Your responsibilities also include to:

• Produce portraits of population health and its determinants;

• Contribute to the dissemination of surveillance products, ensuring that they comply with the plan's

dissemination strategy;

• Evaluate and monitor the effectiveness and relevance of the surveillance plan, recommending updates or

adjustments where necessary;

• In collaboration with other monitoring analysts, carry out analyses and respond to requests for data or

information, ensuring that results meet stakeholder needs;

• Work collaboratively with other monitoring analysts to support common team objectives, including crossfunctional monitoring tasks;

• Provide technical expertise and insights to inform ongoing surveillance activities and public health

interventions;

• Perform other related duties as assigned by direct supervisor.

REQUIREMENTS

• For candidates who are beneficiaries of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, a combination of

relevant experience and education may be considered;

• Must have a bachelor's degree in an appropriate academic discipline such as business administration,

humanities or social sciences;

• Must have experience of the content and aims of a public health surveillance plan;

• Graduate training in epidemiology or biostatistics (an asset);

• Master's degree in public health with a major in epidemiological surveillance (an asset);

• Knowledge and experience of various provincial, federal and Inuit socio-health databases;

• Good knowledge of socio-health surveys conducted in Nunavik;

• Experience in quantitative analysis;

• Knowledge of epidemiology or statistics and quantitative/qualitative methods (an asset);

• Proficiency in prospective studies and trend analysis;

• Proficiency in SPSS and Stata software;

• Knowledge of Nunavik and Inuit culture (an asset);

• Excellent knowledge of two of the three languages used in the region: inuktitut, english or french;

• Knowledge of the Office 365 suite (an asset);

• Coordination and facilitation skills;

• Ability to maintain links with local, provincial and national partners;

• Rigor, ability to analyze and synthesize;

• Written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Temporary full-time assignment (35hr/week) for 2 years with possibility of extension;

• Telecommuting position with occasional travel to Nunavik;

• Salary based on MSSS rules and experience ($29.50/hr to $52.28/hr).

Northern benefits: Employees who settle in Nunavik can benefit from a variety of bonuses, including a retention

bonus, a remoteness bonus and a cost-of-living bonus. For those hired more than 50 km from Kuujjuaq,

low-cost housing is offered, along with reimbursement of moving and storage costs. In addition, annual personal

trips from Kuujjuaq to the hiring point and other benefits.

For more information on our services and our region, we invite you to consult the Nunavik Regional Board of

Health and Social Services website at: https://nrbhss.ca/en.

Employees of the health and social services network are potentially eligible for the northern leave without

pay.

Interested candidates should send their resume, no later than March 9, 2025 to the attention of:

Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services

Human Resources

P.O. Box 900, Kuujjuaq, Québec J0M 1C0

drh.Recrutement-Recruitment.rr17@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

TEL: 1-844-964-2244 / 819 964-2222 FAX: 819 964-2888

Candidates who are beneficiaries of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement shall receive priority.