Educational Developer

About us
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery.

We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity
The Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (RGASC) is a hub for academic skills development on the Mississauga campus. The mandate of the RGASC is to support and promote teaching and learning in a range of contexts across the campus.  For students, the RGASC is a resource for developing academic skills through individual appointments and group-based initiatives that help students identify and develop the academic skills they need for success in their studies.
For instructional staff and faculty, the Centre is a partner in teaching and learning activities.  These activities include course and program design, implementation and assessment of a given intervention’s impact.

Faculty and staff appointed to the RGASC have a range of specializations, including academic peer support, academic writing instruction, educational development, English language learning, numeracy, scientific literacy, and supplemental instruction. This diversity of experience and expertise enables the Centre to collaborate productively with partners from across the disciplines and campus, who bring with them a varied and diverse set of teaching and learning objectives.

Working with the Director and Assistant Director of the RGASC, and reporting to the Senior Educational Developer & Team Lead on day-to-day operations, the Educational Developer promotes a scholarly and evidence-based approach to teaching. They will provide expertise to support departments and instructors with enhancing teaching and learning outcomes. This will include facilitating and leading workshops and /or community of practices;

and meeting individually with instructors to advise on strategies for developing and delivering curriculum (e.g., development of teaching dossiers, learning objectives, teaching activities, rubrics and assessments).

The Educational Developer will have a good understanding of pedagogical literature and application of theory, and will make recommendations on best practices related to teaching and learning. They will be able to communicate and work effectively with faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, support staff and university administrators to foster and maintain networks that build capacity and collaboration that enhance pedagogical practices.

The Educational Developer should have a passion for supporting instructors of diverse backgrounds across the humanities, social sciences, science and management disciplines. They must also be sensitive to the professional development challenges and support needs of educators at all career stages and levels of experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

Developing and implementing components of instructional programs

Fostering and maintaining networks to build capacity and collaboration

Planning and overseeing the implementation of an evaluation framework for assigned projects

Evaluating learning outcomes for program development

Advising…