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The Senior Educational Development Consultant - Indigenizing Curricula supports instructors and academic units across disciplines in advancing decolonization and Indigenization of teaching and learning at the 51ÁÔÆæ. This position plays a vital role in supporting the implementation of institutional Indigenization and decolonization initiatives, contributing directly to the university’s commitments under Braiding Past, Present, and Future and related strategic priorities. This portfolio aims to provide practical, tactical guidance that helps instructors integrate Indigenous worldviews, content, land-based learning, and trauma-informed pedagogies into their teaching in a respectful, responsive, and effective manner.

The incumbent will consult with instructors and departments to design strategies for embedding anti-colonial and Indigenous ways of knowing and content at both the course and program levels. Through workshops, resource development, and one-on-one or team-based consultations, they will help instructors at all levels—from novice to expert—apply evidence-informed approaches, such as high-impact educational practices, in the context of Indigenous pedagogies. They will also support bridging approaches to teaching and learning with Indigenous pedagogies and knowledge systems, offering tools and frameworks that guide instructors in transforming their curriculum and learning environments.

Deadline to apply: August 5, 2025

The Senior Educational Development Consultant for Curriculum Innovation plays a key role in advancing curriculum design and renewal across the 51ÁÔÆæ. This position focuses on supporting academic departments and faculties in developing responsive, forward-looking curricula that reflect disciplinary strengths, institutional goals, and emerging trends in teaching and learning.

Through strategic consultation, workshops, and collaborative design processes, the incumbent assists academic units in reimagining their programs to enhance student learning, equity, and academic integrity. A central aspect of this role includes guiding programs in exploring how Generative AI can be meaningfully and responsibly integrated into curricula, ensuring alignment with pedagogical values, disciplinary contexts, and evolving standards of academic excellence.

Working closely with CTL colleagues and institutional partners, the consultant provides curriculum services that foster innovation while supporting long-term, scalable transformation. This includes contributing to program-level curriculum design, advising on high-impact educational practices, and helping embed inclusive, future-oriented approaches to learning at the course and program levels.

Deadline to apply: August 8, 2025

The Senior Educational Development Consultant, Natural and Applied Sciences supports instructors and academic units in natural and applied sciences disciplines in advancing inclusive, evidence-informed, and context-specific approaches to teaching and learning at the 51ÁÔÆæ. This portfolio encompasses departments spanning the natural, mathematical, computational, and applied sciences, each with its own distinct disciplinary culture and teaching practices. The consultant provides pedagogical support that reflects these diverse contexts while fostering excellence in course design and instructional practice.

This portfolio emphasizes practical, research-aligned strategies for teaching in technical, quantitative, and laboratory-based learning environments. The consultant supports instructors in applying active learning, inclusive assessment, and high-impact teaching practices, particularly in large-enrollment, design-based, or first-year foundational courses. They also assist instructors and academic units in aligning course design and assessment strategies with disciplinary expectations and, where applicable, accreditation requirements.

The role engages closely with colleagues across CTL portfolios—such as those focused on Generative AI, Indigenizing Curriculum, Experiential Learning, and Curriculum Innovation—to provide wrap-around support for instructors in the natural and applied sciences. This collaborative approach ensures that teaching and learning practices are pedagogically sound, responsive to technological and disciplinary change, and aligned with institutional commitments to Truth and Reconciliation, and access, community, and belonging.

Deadline to apply: August 21, 2025

The post-doctoral appointee will work on activities related to changing assessment practices in large first- and second-year courses with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

The person filling this position will work with Dr. Lia Daniels and Dr. Carrie Demmans Epp (CTL Scholars) on projects that relate to how assessment is conducted, how we can better support student and instructor well-being, and how AI (including large language models [LLMs]) can support assessment and well-being. Eligibility for additional affiliation with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (amii) and the Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME) will be discussed with the candidate.

Deadline to apply: We are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. The review of applications will begin on August 31 and will continue until a suitable candidate is found; in order to ensure full consideration, applications must be completed by September 15.

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