Curriculum Specialist, Indigenous Learning

Job Code 3854

Department Centre for Learning and Teaching

OCAD University acknowledges the ancestral territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabeg and the Huron-Wendat, who are the original owners and custodians of the land on which we live, work and create.

Please note that internal job postings are open only to current permanent OPSEU Local 576 Unit 1 employees and temporary OPSEU Local 576 Unit 1 employees with one year of continuous service.

Reporting to the Manager, Teaching Support and Curriculum Enhancement, and collaborating closely with the Director, Indigenous Initiatives, the Curriculum Specialist, Indigenous Learning is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating strategic Indigenous learning initiatives that advance understanding of Indigenous histories, methodologies, and cultural art and design practices through curriculum development and renewal, faculty professional learning, online course development, and community engagement. The Curriculum Specialist provides individual and team-based support and resources to facilitate the integration of Indigenous knowledges across undergraduate and graduate programs;

through its focus on curriculum review, renewal and structural change, the Curriculum Specialist plays a leadership role in advancing the Indigenous teaching and learning priorities of the University's Academic and Strategic Plan .

The Curriculum Specialist works within the Centre for Learning & Teaching (CLT) as part of a larger team delivering a range of programs and services for faculty, students, Teaching Assistants and other instructional staff, and is supported by the Indigenous OCAD U community which includes the Indigenous OCAD U Committee, Indigenous Student Centre, Indigenous Education Council, and the Indigenous Cultural Advisory Circle.

• Lead and supportcurriculumdevelopmentacross OCAD U’s undergraduate and graduate programs to advance Indigenous histories, perspectives, knowledges, methodologies, and cultural practices of art and design,that support Indigenous student experiences and success
• Collaborate with the ISC and INVC program to undertake needs assessment processes to identify
  
  Indigenous student learning experiences, with a focus on addressing systemic barriers to learning
• Organize and lead the (re) design and renewal of OCAD U’s Indigenous Learning Outcomes (ILOs), including planning the strategy to achieve the University's goals for the ILOs;develop supporting documentation, resources, and processes that facilitate ongoing engagement with the ILOs across the University.
• Coordinate and conduct consultations on the ILOswithfaculty,IEC,Indigenous Cultural Advisory Circleand Indigenouscommunitypartners in Six Nations of the Grand River,Mississaugasof the Credit First Nation, and other stakeholders as required
• Co-facilitate and support the design, development and production of an online Indigenous art,designand history course to advance the University’s decolonial teaching and learning goals, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary course development team
• Develop teaching and learning resources and faculty professional learning initiatives that support Indigenous student success
• Develop and deliver community engagement programming for faculty and staff to support the understanding of
  
  Indigenous learning and decolonization, as required
• Conduct environmental scans andrelatedresearch andpreparereports, as needed,toinformapproaches,facilitating alignment with promising practices and sector normsin
  
  Indigenous teaching and learning,where appropriate
• Provide subject matterexpertisein Indigenous pedagogies,methodologies and decolonizing approaches to inform and strengthen the Centre'songoing
  
  Indigenous engagement and programming
• Support the Manager, Teaching Support and Curriculum Enhancement, and the Director, Indigenous Initiatives, in related functions and special projects

• Indigenous citizenship (First Nations, Inuit, Métis), connection to an Indigenous community, a history and/or evidence of lived experience and an understanding of Indigenous culture(s) and practices
• Successful completion of a…