Manager, Emerging Learning Models (Jan 2023-Jan 2024) Job at Lethbridge College
Responsibilities
Having the creative confidence to forge new learning-design solutions is integral to succeeding in this position. This role also requires strong project management, decision-making, interpersonal, relationship-building skills and flexible approaches to adapt to our client’s needs and comfort levels. The ELM Manager collaborates with many internal and external stakeholders, including industry and regulatory bodies, and is often a key facilitator for strategy sessions.
Why choose Lethbridge and Lethbridge College
Lethbridge advantages
The brief
Lethbridge College’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CTLI) is looking for a Manager of Emerging Learning Models to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Associate Dean, CTLI, this team-lead position works with faculty, administrators, stakeholders, and other members of the CTLI to enhance our innovative, human-centred teaching and learning environment.
This one-year position will fill in behind the previous manager, who has been seconded to another position.
What makes you a good fit?
What makes you a good fit?
The ELM Manager leads and manages the Emerging Learning Models Team, which provides consultation, facilitation, design, and development of learning systems and experiences for various partners across the college and our community. The ELM team works closely with other multidisciplinary project teams to design and develop learning experiences and facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions.
This position might be right for you if you have a passion for innovative learning system design and learning experience design, for example:
- Competency-based learning models
- Micro-credentials
- Emerging apprenticeship program models
- Upskilling and reskilling learning opportunities
- Workshop design, development and facilitation
- Strategic planning
Having the creative confidence to forge new learning-design solutions is integral to succeeding in this position. This role also requires strong project management, decision-making, interpersonal, relationship-building skills and flexible approaches to adapt to our client’s needs and comfort levels. The ELM Manager collaborates with many internal and external stakeholders, including industry and regulatory bodies, and is often a key facilitator for strategy sessions.
Why choose Lethbridge and Lethbridge College
Lethbridge College is learner-focused, with an emphasis on experiential and flexible learning experiences and work-integrated learning.
We have a strong connection to our community and the land. We also promote a work environment that supports professional development and employee wellness, including flexible work arrangements and schedules that allow for work-life balance. In addition, we prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion across all areas of our campus community.
Our team offers a supportive atmosphere in which we all contribute to shared leadership and achievements. We’re also committed to providing all the tools, resources, and expertise team members need to succeed in their roles.
Lethbridge advantages
Lethbridge offers a relatively low cost of living, with mild winters and sun-filled summers. Outdoor adventures await you in the city’s vast park systems and river valley, and we’re located just an hour and 20 minutes from the mountains. Enjoy the advantages of small-city life while accessing the amenities of a larger city, including arts and culture, sport and recreational facilities, and year-round family-friendly events.
Land Acknowledgement
Located on the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Lethbridge College is committed to honouring the land from a place of knowing. We honour the Siksikaitsitapi as both the traditional and current Land Keepers of this area, and we welcome all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples who call Blackfoot territory their home to disclose as such when submitting applications. Lethbridge College is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment for all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, and age.
Job Duties
Land Acknowledgement
Located on the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Lethbridge College is committed to honouring the land from a place of knowing. We honour the Siksikaitsitapi as both the traditional and current Land Keepers of this area, and we welcome all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples who call Blackfoot territory their home to disclose as such when submitting applications. Lethbridge College is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment for all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, and age.
Here’s how the Emerging Learning Models Manager contributes to Lethbridge College’s culture of innovation, excellence, and inclusion.
Leadership: Leads and collaborates on provincial-, institutional-, and centre-level initiatives such as micro-credential, dual-credit, apprenticeship-style programs and strategic engagement and facilitation.
Collaboration: Collaborates with CTLI and other academic centres and departments. Works closely with both credit and non-credit development centres.
Collaboration: Collaborates with CTLI and other academic centres and departments. Works closely with both credit and non-credit development centres.
Engagement: Engages with internal representatives to identify needs and develop processes and tools to support emerging learning models.
Non-academic curriculum: Collaborates with other CTLI department leaders to identify connections between non-academic and/or emerging learning models and existing processes.
Accountability: Oversees and mentors ELM team members and the recruitment and training of new CTLI contract instructional designers.
Accountability: Oversees and mentors ELM team members and the recruitment and training of new CTLI contract instructional designers.
Delegation: Assigns project and non-credit curriculum development to team members and helps assemble design teams.
Project management: Serves as first point of contact between CTLI and other college departments for learning experience design and development initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent supervisory, customer service, and stakeholder relationship- building skills
- Strong project management and decision-making skills
- Expertise in strategic facilitation
- Leads and works on multiple projects simultaneously
- Approaches tasks with a growth mindset and a willingness to learn from others
- Rapidly acquires new skills and stays current in emerging learning models
- Interprets and applies college and post-secondary policies and procedures
- Master’s degree with specialization in education; instructional design; or educational research, technology, and/or curriculum development
- Experience designing competency-based learning models such as micro-credentials and badging
- Experience with and awareness of Alberta Trades legislation, curriculum, and programming
- Experience and/or education in Indigenous education or Indigenization of curriculum
- Demonstrated team leadership skills
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
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