Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Educational Programming, Level A

Job Title

Junior Instructional Designer

Department

Instructional Design | MedIT | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$4,826.17 - $6,933.92 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

February 28, 2024

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Apr 30, 2025

This is a 12-month term position.

This position is located within a health-care facility, therefore, the successful candidate will be required to provide verification of full vaccination against Covid-19 provided prior to the start date, as required by a provincial health mandate.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Digital Solutions: Educational Technology (EdTech) portfolio is responsible for supporting the design, development and maintenance of online learning artifacts including e-modules, virtual patients, simulations, facilitated learning sessions, blended learning opportunities and other educational outputs as required for all programs and schools across the Faculty of Medicine.

This one-year term position works closely with other members of the Educational Technology team and educational stakeholders to ensure that educational resources and technologies appropriately, effectively, consistently and sustainably support the educational objectives of the Faculty of Medicine.

Organizational Status
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world.

Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone

Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 12,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.

The Faculty—comprised of approximately 2,200 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members—is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, 3 schools, and 25 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.

The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The City of Vancouver is located on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations territory.

Reports to the Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager, Educational Technology, Faculty of Medicine. Works with academic and clinical faculty, external clients and UBC teams. The selected candidate will work closely with the other members of the Educational Technology team, faculty and staff.

Work Performed

• Contributes to the Educational Technology team by providing expertise in instructional design for distributed education and flexible learning materials and methods.
• Liaises with course instructors for updates and provides instructional design expertise and media selection recommendations to course authors and external clients in the development of educational processes and materials.
• Provide instructional technology programming expertise and technical design advice to faculty and staff to ensure appropriate learner access to resources in the medical programs.
• Assists in the programming of online modules and learning artifacts using eLearning software and media authoring tools.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of blended and distributed educational artifacts which includes developing webpages, quizzes, assignments and designing the look and feel of the online components of the blended course.
• Collaborates with internal units and University groups such as the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology (CTLT) and the Learning Technology Hub (LT Hub).
• Prepares documents for edits and re-formats course materials to ensure content is accurate, presentable for online learning, and up-to-date.
• Implements qualitative assurance processes for ongoing distributed educational artifacts.
• Prepares learning materials to train faculty as required in the use of the educational technologies in the blended and distributed learning environments.
• Performs ongoing research and evaluates developments specifically related to the pedagogical integration of instructional technology and tools.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Consequence of Error/Judgement
Errors may result in inappropriate usage of advanced learning technologies and systems; inadequate Faculty of Medicine organizational preparation for adaptive and changing e-learning needs; missed deadlines and cost overruns; miscommunications between students, faculty and staff members relating to e-learning resources; learning session or service disruptions; frustration for faculty, staff and students relying on training and services to support their educational technology projects; breakdown in collaborative e-learning efforts with other Faculties.

Supervision Received

Reports directly to the Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager, Educational Technology, Faculty of Medicine; additional inter-site accountability within the Faculty of Medicine; works under general program or departmental guidelines. Work is reviewed in terms of quality and effectiveness in meeting educational goals.

This position, through the Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager, Educational Technology, receives guidance and direction from Faculty of Medicine stakeholders on pedagogical components of Educational Technology.

Supervision Given
Provides input to user-support staff, faculty, and department representatives with regard to academic functions and course design. There are no direct reports to this position. This position may be expected to supervise work-study students; is expected to operate with wide latitude.

Minimum Qualifications
University degree in a relevant discipline. Minimum of two years of related experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own

- Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum of 2 years' experience in the design, development and delivery of learning artifacts, and the use of instructional media for mixed-mode education courses and programs or an equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.

Degree in or working towards degree in education, educational technology, distributed education, educational psychology, or related fields preferred.

• A balance of creative, technical, analytical, and social interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team environment; knowledge of and comfort in working with technology and technological teams, as well as a diverse set of stakeholders of variable technical competencies.
• Ability to exercise initiative, diplomacy and judgment.
• Strong work ethic with excellent time management skills.
• An understanding of post-secondary academic culture.
• ability to thrive in a team setting in a diverse, complex, distributed and fluid environment
• Experience in the areas of adult education, facilitation and presentation skills; excellent oral and written communication would be an asset.
• Experience promoting and supporting the use and application of educational technologies in a rapidly evolving context of digital instructional technologies.
• Sound knowledge in areas of web-authoring, web-based application development, content management systems, web-server technologies, and social networking and collaboration technologies.
• Experience creating learning activities, learning modules, courseware, and leaner assessments.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of instructional technologies.
• Experience with media design and production.
• Experience with user experience and user interface design.
• Experience with e-learning authoring software applications such as Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, or Adobe Creative Suite.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML, JavaScript and Adobe Photoshop.
• Working knowledge of project management practices would be an asset.
• Working knowledge of Word Press and Wiki’s an asset.
• Familiarity with and/or experience in the healthcare sector an asset.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.