Educational Developer

Yorkville University

10d • Remote

About The Position

Reporting to the Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence & Development, this role supports the continued growth and evolution of faculty development across Yorkville University and Toronto Film School. The Educational Developer will take ownership of established programs while identifying and developing new initiatives in response to emerging faculty, teaching, and learning needs. Collaboration with faculty, academic teams, and colleagues across the Centre for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI) is key to developing and delivering programming, resources, consultations, and development opportunities that strengthen teaching practices and enhance student learning across diverse disciplines and learning environments. The initial focus will be on new faculty onboarding and supporting the growing needs of Nursing and Health Sciences programming. This is a remote role with periodic multi-day travel to campuses in Ontario, New Brunswick, and British Columbia, as well as conferences.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Knowledge of educational development and scholarship in higher education.
• Completed the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) Certificate through the ISW Network.
• Experience facilitating Instructional Skills Workshops (ISWs) for faculty and academic staff.
• Experience supporting faculty through educational development, including consultation, workshop facilitation, curriculum design and development, or a combination of these areas.
• Understanding that effective educational development is relational and contextual, and ability to adapt approach to different disciplines, teaching environments, and faculty needs.
• Knowledge of current educational research and evidence-informed approaches to teaching and learning in higher education.
• Ability to translate research and emerging practices into practical resources, programming, and recommendations that faculty can apply in their teaching.
• Experience teaching in higher education and contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
• Comfort working with learning management systems, educational technologies, and digital teaching tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneNote.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies that support faculty development and teaching excellence.
• Relationship builder who can work independently while staying closely connected to a virtual team.
• Ability to take initiative, manage competing priorities and deadlines, and adapt as needs evolve.
• Ability to present ideas clearly, exchange constructive feedback, and build trusted relationships with faculty, academic leaders, and colleagues across disciplines and campuses.
• Commitment to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, access, and accessibility within higher education.
• Curiosity and thoughtful awareness to how different identities, lived experiences, disciplines, and learning environments influence teaching and educational development.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, facilitate, evaluate, and continuously improve workshops, webinars, courses, events, programs, and resources that support faculty development and teaching excellence.
• Work across diverse teaching and learning environments, including online synchronous and asynchronous learning, classrooms and labs.
• Consult with faculty, instructional teams, course leads, and subject matter experts across disciplines to understand their needs and strengthen teaching practices.
• Advise on evidence-informed pedagogy, digital teaching practices, instructional technologies, assessment of student learning, and opportunities for reflection and continuous improvement.
• Play an active role in onboarding and developing new faculty through the Ready-to-Teach program and related initiatives.
• Adapt existing programming and develop new approaches that respond to different disciplines, teaching environments, and learner needs, particularly within Nursing and Health Sciences.
• Work closely with Senior Educational Developers, Educational Developers, Educational Technologists, and colleagues across Teaching and Learning, academic programs, the Library, and other teams.
• Build relationships across campuses and with partner groups, connecting people, ideas, and resources to strengthen teaching excellence and innovation across Yorkville University and Toronto Film School.
• Stay current with emerging research and practices in higher education and translate relevant insights into practical opportunities for faculty.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives, campus-wide conversations, resources, events, and scholarly activities while helping CTEI identify emerging needs and evolve its programming and approach.

Benefits

• Paid time away
• Retirement savings matching
• Extended health coverage with 80% of premiums paid
• Tuition-free access to all education programs after 12 months of full-time employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level