Design Specialist - FMCAD

At Humber, we are a vibrant, diverse community of professionals dedicated to providing an exceptional learning experience for our students. Through our strategic vision and exciting new brand Builders of Brilliance, we are co-constructing a new model of polytechnic education for Ontario, Canada, and the world. We are committed to ensuring Humber offers the right programs, with the most effective teaching and learning approaches, to prepare exceptional leaders for our industries and communities.

To achieve our vision, we take finding and developing the right talent very seriously. We offer a collegial, collaborative, inclusive environment in which each individual is supported to grow and bring their best each day.

Position Title: Design Specialist

Status: Full-Time, Support

Hours
: 37.5 hours per week

Faculty/Department
:
Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design

Campus/Location
:
North Campus

Salary
:
Pay band H

Salary Range
: $38.09 (min) - $44.04 (max) per hour

Starting Salary
: $38.09;
Progression through the pay band is in accordance with the increments in the pay band as outline in the Full-Time Support Staff Collective Agreement based on actual service in the pay band

Humber’s Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design offers the most comprehensive mix of media, arts and communications programs in Canada. We encompass a diverse range of creative disciplines, spanning media, arts, and design, including journalism and writing; film, acting, media production, and animation; advertising and public relations; design and interaction design; as well as music and fine arts. Live Labs and work-integrated learning opportunities complement the industry-specific business skills that are woven through each of our programs.

Our graduates are collaborative, highly skilled, career-ready professionals with the creative aptitude, entrepreneurial ability, and resourcefulness needed to lead and innovate wherever the story takes them.

The Design Specialist will provide specialized technical and instructional support to students, faculty, and academic activities across the Design programs within the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, including Interior Design, Industrial Design, Bachelor of Design UX, Interior Decorating Diploma, Graphic Design Advanced Diploma, and other design-adjacent programs.

The position supports student learning by delivering demonstrations, technical instruction, critiques, and guidance related to design processes, materials, fabrication methods, equipment, software applications, industry standards, and studio practices. The incumbent will assist faculty in maintaining effective learning environments, support technology-enhanced teaching and learning, manage and develop design resources and materials, and contribute to program recruitment, outreach, and student engagement activities.

Media and Creative Arts

Oct. 18, 2026

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• 3-year diploma/degree or equivalent in drafting, detailing, construction, fabrication, Ontario Building Code, and any other related fields of study.

• Three to five years of progressively responsible and practical work experience in the design industry or education sector. Experience in customer-service work environment which preferably demonstrates the following abilities to:
• work on their own initiative;
• initiate and maintain ongoing verbal and written…