E-Learning Specialist

Date Posted: 05/06/2024
Req ID: 37224
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Career Centre
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00038287

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of humanpotential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

The UTM Career Centre utilizes a student-focused approach to help students develop career management skills that they can use throughout their life. Each member of the team contributes, individually and collectively, via their specific role and by supporting others to meet the Centre's overall mission and goals. Under the supervision of the Director, Career Centre, the E-Learning Specialist works with fellow staff to plan, develop, design and produce e-learning modules on a variety of career development topics and updates existing modules. The Specialist works collaboratively to maintain the Centre's branding and standards for allprojects. The Specialist investigates and recommends technological solutions, and ensures that a universal design learning approach is incorporated. The Specialist supports staff in the achievement of learning goals for each module or instance. The Specialist provides technical support for other virtual learning opportunities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing e-learning modules and online assessments using existing software for instructional purposes
• Creating and maintaining course shells on the learning management engine
• Analyzing user needs and business processes to create programming solutions
• Analyzing technical solutions to ensure compliance with best practice and industry standards
• Planning and overseeing the implementation of an evaluation framework for assigned projects
• Creating and editing documents
• Analyzing and recommending technologies that can be integrated/utilized to better serve unit objectives
• Serving as a resource to others by providing (non-supervisory) job-related guidance

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Training or certification in instructional design, visual communications
• Minimum four years experience in instructional design for e-learning, including managing projects, developing appropriate learning outcomes and content creation.
• Demonstrated ability to design high quality, effective and interactive e-learning opportunities with subject matter experts
• Experience developing an assessment framework for e-learning activities
• Experience ensuring e-learning experiences arecompliant with universal design learning principles e.g AODA compliance
• Experience researching and utilizing best practices in e-learning, including design and new technologies
• Demonstrated ability to train other staff in using e-learningtools
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast paced environment
• Experience using e-learning platforms and tools e.g. learning management systems, e-learning software such as Articulate and related platforms such as Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience working with institutional branding initiatives
• Strong e-learning design skills for a variety of audiences
• Strong team work skills with a diverse set of colleagues
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to design appropriate learning outcomes
• Ability to attune practices to the needs of a diverse population, aligning with the principles of equity, inclusion, reconciliation and belonging, respecting the lived experiences of ourstudents and staff
• Precision in managing projects and design
• Time management skills within individual projects and across multiple simultaneous projects
• Flexibility, discretion, tact and sound judgment

Assets (Nonessential):

• Knowledge of/interest in career development, student development and related theories
• Experience in an post-secondary setting
• Knowledge of Javascript, Adobe design suite

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Motivated self-learner
• Multi-tasker
• Resourceful
• Team player

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline

Closing Date: 05/14/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.