Senior Learning Designer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the comprehensive development of competency-based curriculum frameworks for technical and professional education initiatives.

• Convert skills and competencies into curriculum structures, which include prerequisites, progression paths, proficiency standards, and learning outcomes.

• Implement principles of adult learning, competency-based education, backward design, and constructive alignment.

• Establish learning outcomes, evidence of learning, assessment methods, and proficiency indicators.

• Map courses, modules, and educational resources to determine coverage, redundancy, and gaps.

• Create learner pathways extending from basic knowledge to advanced or specialized capabilities.

• Develop and uphold organized skills, competency, and training taxonomies.

• Extract, standardize, and arrange skills, capabilities, topics, competencies, prerequisites, outcomes, and proficiency levels.

• Create controlled vocabularies, synonyms, definitions, classification rules, and inter-domain relationships.

• Support metadata structures, mapping guidelines, and machine-readable outputs for digital platforms and learning systems.

• Ensure source traceability, decision documentation, version control, and governance records are maintained.

• Lead discovery efforts across training materials, course inventories, competency frameworks, standards, policies, and documentation.

• Organize and facilitate interviews, workshops, working sessions, and validation activities with stakeholders.

• Integrate qualitative and documentary evidence into findings, recommendations, and decision points.

• Resolve conflicts regarding terminology and technical or pedagogical viewpoints.

• Include learner perspectives to assess clarity, usability, prerequisites, and progression paths.

• Connect research and program design by interpreting labor market intelligence, skills evidence, and research into learning and workforce development solutions.

• Collaborate with researchers, data scientists, program designers, facilitators, evaluators, and technology experts.

• Contribute expertise in learning design to program concepts, proposals, pilots, and capacity-building efforts.

• Offer internal guidance and quality assurance regarding learning architecture, curriculum coherence, assessment, and learner experience.

• Manage assigned workstreams from planning through delivery, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, milestones, and quality standards.

• Maintain work plans, decision logs, consultation records, version histories, and project documentation.

• Report progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions to project leadership and external clients or funders.

• Prepare and deliver frameworks, recommendations, and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Establish methodological standards and quality assurance protocols.

• Aid in the governance and upkeep of taxonomies, competency frameworks, and curriculum structures.

• Identify enhancements to learning design methods, tools, templates, and cross-functional collaboration approaches.

• Contribute to related ICTC initiatives as priorities evolve.

⛳️ Requirements

• A graduate degree in Education, Curriculum Studies, Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, Adult Education, or a related field, along with demonstrated knowledge of contemporary pedagogy; a combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered equivalent.

• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in educational research, learning design, curriculum development, competency-based education, instructional design, workforce development, digital pedagogy, or a related area.

• Proven experience in developing curriculum frameworks, competency models, learning outcomes, proficiency models, learner pathways, or similar learning architectures.

• Familiarity with skills taxonomies, competency taxonomies, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, or structured classification frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience in conducting discovery and synthesizing complex source materials into structured, actionable frameworks.

• Experience in facilitating consultations and validation sessions with subject matter experts, translating expert insights into actionable recommendations and deliverables.

• Ability to map courses or learning resources against competency or curriculum frameworks, identifying gaps, overlaps, and redundancies.

• Proven track record of leading complex projects with defined client or funder deliverables, milestones, and timelines.

• Strong understanding of adult learning and competency-based learning principles.

• Excellent systems thinking and information architecture capabilities.

• Proficient in qualitative research, facilitation, interviewing, and stakeholder engagement.

• Strong project management and organizational skills.

• High level of digital and technical literacy.

• Exceptional writing and communication abilities.

• Capability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional environment.

• High integrity, sound judgment, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to inclusive and accessible learning design.

• Bilingualism (English/French) is a significant asset.

• Willingness to travel occasionally within Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work options available throughout Canada.

• Opportunity for occasional travel within Canada.

• Chance to lead high-impact programs that contribute to economic growth.

• An agile, collaborative, innovative, and forward-thinking work environment.

• An equal opportunity employer.

• Accommodation measures provided during the hiring process.