Program Development Specialist

Position Title: Program Development Specialist
Position Type: Regular/Full-Time –
* OPSEU represented
Location: Mississauga, ON
Job Band: 10
Salary Range
: $43.39 - $56.67/hour
Hours of work: 36.25 hours/week
Reporting to: Supervisor, Standards
This posting is applicable to: Internal/External Applicants
Skilled Trades Ontario (STO) is a Crown agency responsible for skilled trades certification in Ontario, which includes:

• Establishing apprenticeship programs, including training standards, curriculum standards and certification exams.
• Administering apprenticeship programs, including approving apprentices and sponsors, registering training agreements and assessing applications for apprenticeship program completion.
• Issuing certificates of apprenticeship to completed Ontario apprentices.
• Assessing experience and qualifications of individuals who have not completed an apprenticeship program in Ontario.
• Administering exams, including certifying exams, in all trades subject to certifying exams.
• Issuing Certificates of Qualification in all trades with certifying exams.
• Renewing Certificates of Qualification in compulsory trades.
• Maintaining a Public Register of people authorized to work in compulsory trades.
• Researching apprenticeships and the trades.

• Develop training standards and assessments for assigned trades through ongoing consultative processes with stakeholders, such as industry experts, to: gather occupational and trade related content; facilitate and participate in trades training-related committees and meetings; and resolve occupational and trade-related issues in support of standards design and development.
• Provide consultative advice and act as the primary liaison between STO and industry experts and with provincial ministries, federal government departments, agencies, and training institutions to further STO’s mandate.
• Advise on the latest trades-related trends to inform and influence government on policy development and legislation.
• Conduct and lead projects, coordinate workshops and design and develop programs involving project planning, costing, resource needs, outcomes, milestones and timelines.
• Design, develop and validate training materials for trades (as assigned) through a needs analysis, analyze and review trade scopes of practice, develop on-the-job training standards and in-school/classroom curriculum standards and “entry to practice” criteria and procedures.
• Design, develop and validate assessment/testing tools including certificate of qualification exams, exemption tests, practical assessments and other examinations.
• As necessary, act as a national host for selected, inter-provincially designated trades and assist Employment and Skills Development Canada (ESDC) in managing the Red Seal trade certification process.
• Plan and facilitate the development of interprovincial test banks, provincial examinations, training and curriculum standard workshops, and examination editing workshops, and coordinate peer reviews and interprovincial document validation, document translation.

• Experience applying adult learning principles including program and training design, curriculum development and learning needs/style assessment to recommend and facilitate effective learning solutions usually acquired through a combination of related education or equivalent training and experience.
• Experience…