Manager, Curriculum Design and Learning Support

Role Responsibilities

Design Learning That Builds a Better Tomorrow, step into a role where your curriculum expertise fuels community impact. As Manager, Curriculum Design and Learning Supports, you’ll lead a mission-driven team crafting accessible, inclusive, and forward-thinking learning programs that empower those who serve. If you’re passionate about shaping education that strengthens public institutions, we want to hear from you.

The Training Academy (TA) promotes excellence through training and continual professional development by establishing training standards, and in partnership with stakeholders, facilitating the delivery of evidence-based curriculum. The TA is responsible for design, development and delivery of induction training programs to peace officers in Alberta.

In this position, you will be reporting to the Director, Education Services. As a Manager of Curriculum Design and Learning Supports, you will provide operational leadership, guidance and support in development of high quality curriculum and training programs that meet stakeholders’ training needs. The Manager leads a team of curriculum design professionals in developing and implementing evidence-based, defensible training programs grounded in adult-learning principles to meet organizational goals. The position provides consultation and recommendations to the Director on establishing ministry wide training policies, curriculum standards (training program design, development, delivery, and assessment), training strategies and best practices.

As a Manager, you will take a lead role in the Training Academy’s commitment to continuous program and services improvement that links the Alberta Public Service Vision and Values, GOA business plan, Justice business plan, and Business Partner outcomes. The role involves consultation and negotiation with management and stakeholders to determine priorities, and to persuade and facilitate shared ownership of training through collaboration. 

Role Responsibilities (Continued)

Duties and responsibilities include but not limited to : 
•    Provide leadership and direction to professionals responsible for designing curriculam in a Collaborative manner that recognizes the contributions of subject matter resources.
•    Positively contribute to the Training Academy’s culture by modeling the APS values. 
•    Provide leadership, support, expertise, and direction in the development of a framework for training programs that includes continuous review and evaluation of content, delivery methodologies, and applied learning.  
•    Use sound project management to ensure curriculum design initiatives are linked with partners/stakeholders, and deliverables are met on time and on budget.
•    Create processes and mechanisms to actively engage and interact with Ministry business areas to identify organizational training needs.
•    Promote and influence the understanding, acceptance, and active participation of business areas in the development of training programs.
•    Develop strategies to identify critical needs and resource requirements in the design and development of training.
•    Engage and consult with training industry experts to assess applicability of leading edge and best practices.
•    Monitor emerging issues, research, learning assessment tools and methodologies, and external training programs for application to current suite of training and development products.
•    Initiate and instill collaborative partnering with business areas to examine and analyze current design, development, delivery and evaluations frameworks and practices.
•    Be able to lead committees with broad membership, focusing on achieving common understandings, practices and outcomes.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:
•    Demonstrated knowledge of relevant acts, legislation and policies that guide training curriculum. 
•    Demonstrated project management, decision-making and effective consultation skills. 
•    Demonstrated facilitation and communication abilities with highly developed interpersonal and problem-solving skills. 
•    Proven ability in building effective working relationships and managing multiple, complex projects under tight timelines. 
•    Strategic thinking and planning to develop, articulate and encourage commitment to new and adaptive processes and systems to design, develop, deliver and evaluate training and development programs. 
•    Leading the development of a roadmap of responsive and flexible processes, frameworks and functionality to create and sustain a results-oriented and collaborative culture including developing and supporting of organizational training. 
•    Identifying opportunities and championing a culture of partnering and adaptive responses to changing skills and behaviour reqwuirements and changes.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Successful candidates will posses:

Creative Problem Solving - Ability to assess issues and implications, share knowledge and learnings while being open to new and different ways to approach ideas.

Agility - Ability to prioritize competing workload pressures in an effective manner and contribute to the center/unit goals.

Develop Networks - establish and sustain meaningful relationships and work collaboratively with a variety of cross-functional units and stakeholders.

Systems Thinking - demonstrate and apply an understanding of the broader impact that the work completed affects internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

Requried:
•    A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in education or a related field; Adult Education, psychology, leadership, social work and 4 years of experience in training, learning and development.

Assets & preferences:
•    Working experience in supervising staff is required; acting roles will be considered.  
•    Working experience and application of leadership competencies.
•    Demonstrated experience to lead large scale projects, including producing challenging deliverables in tight timelines.
•    Related experience in curriculum design and adult learning.
•    Related advanced degree such as education, psychology, leadership, social work, etc. and knowledge of the Training Academy’s mandate/role. 
•    Preference will be given to those with experience working with vulnerable populations, as curriculum is developed to assist Peace Officers in working with incarcerated individuals/vulnerable Albertans.
•    At least one year of this experience must be specific to curriculum design and adult learning.

Equivalencies will be considered on the basis of:
•    One year of education with one year of experience
•    One year of experience with one year of education

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

•    This is one full-time permanent position located in Edmonton.
•    Hours of work will be Monday – Friday, 8:15am – 4:30pm

Security Screening is required for successful candidate.

•    Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. 
•    Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.
•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.