Education Design Specialist

**Education Design Specialist - Program Planning, Development and Renewal - FT Admin (2 positions)**
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**Find Your Spot at Humber**

At Humber, we are a vibrant, diverse community of professionals dedicated to providing an exceptional learning experience for our students. Through our strategic vision and exciting new brand Builders of Brilliance we are co-constructing a new model of polytechnic education for Ontario, Canada, and the world. We are committed to ensuring Humber offers the right programs, with the most effective teaching and learning approaches, to prepare exceptional leaders for our industries and communities.

To achieve our vision, we take finding and developing the right talent very seriously. We offer a collegial, collaborative, inclusive environment in which each individual is supported to grow and bring their best each day.

If you are excited by the prospect of contributing to our vision for learning, if you would like to be part of building a new model of polytechnic education, of ‘building brilliance’, in one of Canada’s preeminent higher education institutions, then here is your opportunity to join our dynamic team.

**Job Details**:
**Position Title**: Educational Desing Specialist (2 positions)
**Status**: Full Time Admin
**Hours**:37.5 hours per week
**Faculty/Department**:Program Planning, Development & Renewal
**Campus/Location**:North Campus
**Minimum Starting Salary**:$93,705.00; starting salaries are determined based on qualifications and years of related experience.

**About the Program Planning, Development & Renewal at Humber**:
Program Planning, Development & Renewal (PPDR) is a centralized department with pan-institutional responsibilities. Working in partnership with the faculties, we lead program planning and development, renewal and review, and work on special projects. PPDR also administers Humber’s Academic Quality Framework. The Quality Framework is a system of interrelated processes that, through a program lens, help maintain and enhance our ability to provide optimal learning opportunities for students.

**About the Assistant Program Quality Consultant Role**:
The incumbent will also be accountable for developing and operationalizing educational design training and resources institution-wide to enhance faculty Recognition of Prior Learning-Quality Assurance (RPL-QA) practices. This includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

- Leads key quality enhancement and continuous improvement practices regarding transfer credit assessment, pathway/block transfer gap analysis and prior learning recognition assessment (PLAR). Including, but not limited to, training sessions, resource development and ongoing maintenance of RPL-QA mechanisms.
- Leads the creation and implementation of professional learning opportunities of all faculty and staff regarding RPL quality assurance mechanisms (e.g., prior learning assessment and recognition tools etc.)
- Provide administrative management of RPL-QA mechanism development, including tracking progress, monitoring timelines, and reporting on the business case and deliverables.

**About You**:
You are passionate about working at Ontario's largest Polytechnic; you thrive on improving productivity and quality that contribute to team success If this sounds like you, keep reading:
**Education**

Master’s Degree with a focus on Education, Curriculum Development, Assessment, Quality in Higher Education, and/or Artificial Intelligence.

**Experience/Skills**
- Extensive knowledge of the theory and practices associated with outcomes-based pedagogy inclusive of the design, development and delivery of program curriculum.
- Ability to navigate, and respond to, changing priorities.
- Excellent leadership skills and the ability to motivate a team to complete a project/goal/task.
- Ability to anticipate challenging situations and proactively seek guidance.
- Create synergies across various units and build relationships with key stakeholders to advance RPL quality assurance and continuous improvement.
- Strong background in post-secondary, outcomes-based inclusive pedagogical methodologies, practices, and principles.
- Strong report writing skills, government grant reporting experience preferred.
- Knowledge of various RPL-related funding opportunities (e.g. CTIG, ONCAT) and the CAAT sector or other Canadian post-secondary institutions.
- Knowledge of various digital educational technologies, software and AI tools is preferred.
- Excellent computer software skills (especially MS Office, and data analysis programs).

**What's in it for you?**
- An opportunity to have an impact with a post-secondary institution, poised to do great things.
- Be part of a diverse, hard-working, and supportive team.
- Tools and technology that will allow you to succeed at your job.
- Amazing perks
- Highly supportive work culture

We thank you for your interest in working with Humber Polytechnic. Only applicants selected for an inte