ORCA Learning Designer

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is an in-person position.

Salary: $7,727.33–$11,112.00 CAD monthly.

Company

hirify.global’s Learning Technology Innovation Centre provides learning technology services and supports ORCA, a centralized distributed testing centre for secure and equitable digital assessments across the Vancouver campus.

What you will do

• Lead the planning, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative assessment pedagogies and digital assessments for faculty members.
• Consult with subject-matter experts and instructors to analyze assessment needs, align assessments with learning outcomes, and improve educational effectiveness.
• Support faculty using ORCA learning management systems and technologies, including PrairieLearn, Canvas, Brightspace, MTA, Qualtrics, Webwork, and Gradescope.
• Develop and test learning technology, scripts, applications, web-based automations, workflows, and guides; support sophisticated auto-graders using HTML, CSS, TypeScript, WASM, Python, R, Rust, and Docker.
• Advise on accessibility, universal design, justice, equity, diversity, Indigeneity, inclusion, and learner and faculty wellbeing in assessment environments.
• Conduct educational research, develop professional development activities, support grant proposals, disseminate findings, and assist with ORCA coordination, onboarding, tours, office hours, and incident response.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Education and at least six years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives that conflict with one’s own, and commitment to developing knowledge and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• PhD in Education, Pedagogy, discipline-based education research, or a related discipline.
• Competency in Python, R, Rust, or similar programming languages and their use in randomized assessments.
• Competency in digital learning design theories, assessment design theory, and higher-education pedagogical approaches across in-person, online, hybrid, and multi-access modalities.
• Knowledge of educational technologies, learning management platforms, multimedia and web-based tools, accessibility tools, learning analytics, artificial intelligence, and generative AI.
• At least two years of post-secondary teaching experience, including course, assessment, and curriculum design across multiple modalities.
• Experience conducting original educational research using Scholarship of Teaching and Learning practices and statistical analysis.
• Familiarity with open-source software projects, GitHub or GitLab, issues, discussions, merge requests, and pull requests.
• Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, problem-solving, troubleshooting, planning, organizational, project-management, and prioritization skills; ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences and work independently with limited direction.
• Ability to apply universal design for learning and accessibility strategies, with foundational knowledge of JEDII, alternative grading, decolonization, Indigenization, higher education, intellectual property, and copyright.
• Commitment to ongoing technical and professional development, comfort auditing generative AI output, and ability to learn emerging tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside faculty, instructional support, IT, accessibility, media, and other hirify.global support units.
• Support accessible, equitable, inclusive, and flexible learning experiences for students and faculty.
• Provide leadership, education, mentoring, workshops, drop-in sessions, tours, and weekly office hours for the hirify.global community.
• Represent ORCA through committees, conferences, professional organizations, and publications.
• Ongoing employment; the position is full time and non-union.