Associate Director, Digital Learning

**Classification & Regular Hours**: Hours per Week: 35 Salary Grade: 18 **About Western**: Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" - an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference. **About Us**: The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) advances the university’s teaching and learning mission by providing orientation, training, mentorship, research and innovation opportunities for faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at Western so that they can create inclusive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate learning experiences for students. The CTL team works to foster and enhance best practices in teaching and learning at Western in partnership with the Faculties, Western Libraries, the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Office of Indigenous Initiatives, Student Experience, Western International, and Western Technology Services. The CTL advocates for teaching excellence and research on teaching at Western, nationally, and internationally. The CTL offers certificates, workshops, conferences, communities of practice, courses, consultations, facilitation of workshops and retreats, and online resources at the instructor, departmental, Faculty and institutional-levels. The Centre for Teaching and Learning is recognized nationally and internationally for its research-based practice, comprehensive teaching assistant and international graduate student programs, extended teaching certificate programs, digital learning resources, and as the home of The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. **Responsibilities**: The Associate Director, Digital Learning works to enhance and develop opportunities for online, blended, and technology-enhanced teaching and learning at Western. The Associate Director is responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of programs on online, blended, and technology-enhanced teaching at the CTL and campus-wide, this includes program and curriculum design, facilitation, project management, budget and proposal writing, supervision of members of CTL’s Digital Learning team, and collaborating with key partners on digital learning initiatives across campus. **Qualifications**: **Education**: - Master’s degree in instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, education, or a related field. - PhD preferred **Experience**: - 5 years of progressive experience with online teaching and course development, with expertise in instructional design techniques and outcomes-based curriculum design - 3 years of experience working as an educational developer or instructional designer in post-secondary environments - 3 years leadership experience, preferably in a university teaching centre or digital learning unit - Extensive experience writing documentation for faculty development and writing grant proposals is preferred - Experience with online teaching at college/university level preferred - Experience with Ontario’s institutional quality assurance process and curriculum renewal is preferred - Experience in leading transformational change initiatives at an institutional level preferred Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: - Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of educational technologies, instructional design theories, models, and teaching strategies suited to an online learning environment - Demonstrated knowledge, experience and practice in training, program development and one-on-one consultations - Experience with Learning Management Systems; knowledge of Brightspace is preferred - Demonstrated knowledge of project management and the ability to manage multiple projects, people, and schedules within an academic context - Ability to quickly research, evaluate, and recommend the viability of new technologies and innovations in Digital Learning - Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of faculty members with different disciplinary backgrounds while establishing proactive, positive consulting relationships - Ability to work in a team environment at multiple organizational levels within Western, with colleagues from diverse backgrounds to build positive and strong relationships at all levels of the organization - Proven ability to interact with people in a professional, respectful and diplomatic manner - Effective presentation skills to both small, large, and diverse audiences - Collaborative leadership and management skills with a track record of building and leading a team of professional high performing staff **Background Checks**: While transcripts are not required for the inter