Curriculum Development Lead, Corporate and Continuing Education

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Corporate & Continuing Education (CCE) is seeking an innovative, enthusiastic Curriculum Development Lead to join their team. Reporting to the Curriculum Development Supervisor in Product Development Operations (PDO), the Curriculum Development Lead (CDL) is responsible for managing curriculum development activities through the lenses of adult educational specialist and project manager while supporting a culture of collaboration and quality.

• Provide educational expertise and foster evidence-based practices in all aspects of teaching and learning for CCE.
• Assess diverse learner needs, industry expectations, and workplace competencies to create curriculum in alignment with NAIT and CCE strategic visions.
• Demonstrate expertise in outcomes-based education, adult learning principles, and curriculum design and development.
• Commitment to design accessible, inclusive, and learner-centered educational opportunities.
• Innovate approaches to curriculum development that improve efficiency and resource usage.
• Support contractors to develop pedagogically-sound curriculum for face-to-face, blended, and online learning environments.
• Course and program evaluation.
• Support the recruitment, hiring, supervision, and onboarding of contractors.
• Develop assessment expectations and guidelines in alignment with course learning outcomes.
• Coordinate course and learning design that integrates appropriate and effective educational technologies to support learner and instructor success.
• Support for instructional best practices.

• Collaborate with project sponsors to prioritize and develop curriculum products.
• Scope and cost curriculum projects, establish realistic timelines, identify resource requirements, and maintain accountability for project deliverables.
• Manage curriculum development projects.
• Coordinate curriculum development tasks.
• Coordinate and support contracted human resources to produce quality deliverables.
• Collaborate with Program Managers, Program Leads, and other project partners to achieve production targets.
• Utilize project management software tools effectively.
• Innovate processes and practices.

• Coordinate and supervise curriculum development contractors (such as subject matter experts, instructional designers, writers/editors, and project coordinators).
• Provide expert educational guidance and balance stakeholder expectations with institutional standards and best practices.
• Commitment to educational quality through consistent application of curriculum standards and quality assurances processes.
• Participate in non-credit curriculum committee meetings and decisions.
• Contribute to curriculum governance and institutional academic policies and procedures as they relate to non-credit delivery.

• Ability to develop and align measurable learning outcomes, instructional approaches, engaging learning activities, and authentic assessments.
• Expertise in course design and development across face-to-face, online, and blended learning modalities, incorporating…