Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care - Chief Executive Officer

Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care (“Yee Hong”) is one of Canada’s largest not-for-profit senior care organizations with an exceptional reputation for delivering high quality, culturally appropriate and person-centred care and services to diverse individuals and communities. With a vision of seniors living their lives to the fullest - with independence, health and dignity, Yee Hong provides a full continuum of culturally appropriate services and care from active seniors programs to home and community support services, long term care and palliative/end of life care, from campuses and other locations across the Greater Toronto Area. Yee Hong proudly provides care to Asian Canadian seniors living in any setting including Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, and Filipino and other diverse backgrounds. Yee Hong serves more than 15,000 seniors and caregivers annually and shares knowledge and insights on a wide range of senior-related matters.Yee Hong’s community and in-home support services empowers seniors across the GTA to remain independent and active community members. These services include active seniors programs, home care, adult day programs, congregate dining, meals on wheels from a community kitchen, caregiver support services, transportation, and a wide array of innovative programs including supporting individuals and their families with managing chronic disease, dementia and palliative care. In addition to excellent care provision, Yee Hong is also a trusted advisor in the senior services and broader healthcare and social services sectors. Yee Hong’s Institute for Social Innovation in Aging builds capacity with a range of social service organizations through advisory services, its private career college and research.With deep knowledge and expertise in culturally appropriate senior care and services, Yee Hong partners with other like-hearted organizations and systems, funders, corporations, policy makers and researchers building a better understanding of the need for person-centred and culturally appropriate care for seniors living in any setting. This includes creating awareness to actively address systemic barriers including stigma, discrimination and racism that leads to poorer health outcomes and quality of life for racialized communities living in Canada and beyond.Yee Hong is seeking an exceptional Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) to lead the next chapter in Yee Hong’s evolution and growth. Reporting to the Yee Hong Centre Board of Directors through the Board Chair, the incoming CEO is a dynamic and collaborative executive leader who will continue to shape Yee Hong’s strategic direction and exceptionally execute on its transformative strategic plan and digital transformation journey. The Chief Executive Officer is a strategic, visionary healthcare and business leader with strong financial, operational, human resources and governance experience. With outstanding relationship building and stakeholder management skills, the incoming CEO will have expertise in corporate and community partnership development, fundraising, including effective government funding, communications and relations. Highly regarded for their inspirational leadership approach, the CEO has the proven ability to build and leverage highly capable teams, in person and remotely, in a rapidly transforming environment.Driven by a commitment to excellence in providing seniors’ care and the importance of elevating seniors’ experience to the next level by addressing the growing and diverse needs for innovative, high-quality services, the incoming CEO knows how to effectively communicate Yee Hong’s unique brand and value proposition, cultivate opportunities to renew and build Yee Hong’s capacity for innovation and transformation, and poise it for sustainable growth. With proven success in developing a wide range of corporate, private and public sector partnerships, the incoming CEO will create new sources of funding and partnership opportunities while continuing to improve Yee Hong’s profile in the seniors’ health sector as part of an integrated system. Leveraging data-driven insights and fact-based stories to develop new programs, influence policy development, the CEO is committed to developing collaborative relationships and contributing to the wellbeing of communities by driving seamless integration across Yee Hong and ensuring impactful changes in support of person-centred care.Forward-thinking and with the ability to combine business, strategic and financial acumen with a high degree of empathy, respect and integrity to effectively lead Yee Hong, the incoming CEO will build on Yee Hong’s decades-strong track record of excellence in delivering a holistic continuum of culturally appropriate seniors care and strategically position it to become an even stronger and more vibrant organization that meets the growing, diverse needs of older adults now and in the future. An outstanding, culturally aware communicator and exceptional relationship builder, the incoming CEO will look for opportunities to enhance Yee Hong’s financial and operational sustainability to expand services through innovative technology, best industry practices, programs and services, delivery models, strategic partnerships and/or integrations to better serve its communities. A goal-oriented change agent, the incoming CEO will build and inspire a high performing management team to innovate and advance the operational effectiveness of Yee Hong through a rigorous review of the current operations and organizational structure to achieve service expansion and efficiency improvement.With 10-15+ years of progressive business and operational leadership experience in healthcare, social and community services and/or senior or long-term care, the incoming CEO is a compelling, well-networked executive leader with a passion to advance excellence in seniors care delivery, solidify Yee Hong’s platform for sustainability and growth, and deepen its impact in the communities it serves. The incoming CEO will have a demonstrated history of transformative leadership with a keen sensitivity to diverse cultures and their nuances. With experience working collaboratively with Boards of Directors and their Foundations, the new CEO is an exceptional business savvy leader with the ability to ensure seamless operations balanced by an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to see short and long-term possibilities in people, systems and services. This is an exceptional leadership opportunity to operate in an environment with a portfolio of program/service delivery offerings and high growth potential and enable the transformation and optimization of culturally appropriate seniors’ care delivery through efficiency and growth, research, education and system solutions, now and for many years to come.How to ApplyIf you are interested in further exploring this exciting Yee Hong Chief Executive Officer opportunity, please provide your resume and a detailed cover letter that highlights your background and connects the dots between your leadership experience and the key competencies outlined in this Position Profile and lets us know why serving as Yee Hong’s Chief Executive Officer resonates for you. Please address your cover letter to Lisa Heidman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Arlington Partners International and the Yee Hong Selection Committee and send your confidential materials directly to Lisa Heidman at lisaheidman@arlingtonpartnersinc.com. Yee Hong is committed to promoting equity, diversity, inclusion and providing accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Yee Hong strives to attract and retain a diverse Board and workforce where employees are inspired to provide an atmosphere of respect and encouragement of all. Through Yee Hong’s policies, practices, benefits, and professional development, Yee Hong provides an environment that increases awareness and removes barriers to positively empower the health and well-being of people and communities it so proudly serves.We look forward to exploring your candidacy.