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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

10

Job Family:

Academic Delivery Support

# of Open Positions:

2

Faculty/Service - Department:

Undergraduate Medical Education

Campus:

Roger Guindon Hall

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted:

December 02, 2024

Applications must be received BEFORE:

December 13, 2024

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 11

Salary Range:

$87,272.00 - $110,239.00

About the Faculty of Medicine
Welcome to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada. Our learners have access to state-of-the art facilities and specialized institutions as they learn alongside world-class physicians and scientists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 medical schools in Canada, our faculty is among the top faculties of medicine in the world for research impact in biomedical and health sciences.

Position Purpose:

As an educational development advisor, design and facilitate pedagogical training for faculty members, with a focus on educational and learning technologies and on implementing teaching practices that are based on innovative approaches (active learning, experiential learning, etc.) Working with professors and production team members as an instructional designer and project lead to design online courses and resources. Offer ongoing personalized support to faculty members to help them design online, face-to-face and blended courses, use effective teaching strategies, and integrate technology, whether in the classroom or online, to support student learning.

Specific Accountabilities 

• Design professional development activities in university teaching for professors based on best educational practices to improve teaching, learning and student participation, while taking into account the needs of all members of the teaching community (regular and part-time professors, teaching assistants and other instructional staff).

• Collaborate with professors to design and develop online and blended courses, and assists them with special projects by helping to organize their materials, identify the most effective pedagogical strategies, and incorporate appropriate media and learning activities.

• Participate in various activities and events, design content and workshops, and deliver training that promotes best practices in teaching and evaluation methods that focus on innovative approaches, such as active learning classrooms and experiential learning.

• Work with a team of multi-media experts (web programmers, web developers, and videographer) to develop online pedagogical materials.

• Assist in integrating university-level pedagogical tools and technology by demonstrating their use and consulting with teaching staff, in collaboration with the personnel from other sectors.

• Act as project lead for a number of concurrent projects, set deadlines, estimate costs, use planning tools, allocate resources, manage budgets, assess risks and evaluate projects.

• Assist in developing ways (e.g. awards, events, etc.) to recognize the value of professors’ contributions and/or propose new ones (awards, activities, etc.), particularly with respect to the use of innovative practices.

• May be called upon to teach non-credit ESG courses and to coordinate ESG practicums in university teaching.

 
Knowledge, experience and skills:

• Master’s degree in education or in a related field (equivalent experience in instructional design and/or related fields could be considered). PhD in education preferred

• Requires four-to-six years’ experience in instructional design or as a university-level instructor

• Experience in creating university teaching resources or publications (an asset)

• Experience in developing digital teaching and learning materials and learning environments

• Self-reliance and sense of initiative

• Good interpersonal skills, coupled with open-mindedness, flexibility, and the ability to forge partnerships

• Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate a team

• Excellent writing skills

• Bilingualism — English/French (spoken and written)

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.