Senior Manager, Digital Experiential Learning and Micro-Credentials bei Uottawa

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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

24

Job Family:

Academic Delivery Support

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Career Development and Experiential Learning

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/10/02

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2025/10/24

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NM2

Salary Range:

$115,781.00 - $144,726.00

About Student Affairs:

Student Affairs is at the very heart of the student experience at the University of Ottawa. We recruit the very best future students, support them throughout their university years and leave them well-prepared for fulfilling careers and future studies. Our team of more than 600 dedicated staff provides the services that keep students happy, well and thriving as they pursue their ambitions. We help them apply and enroll for courses, we oversee 11 residences and an award-winning Dining Hall, we organize fun events, we provide extensive recreation program opportunities and varsity sports activities, we run an innovative career development and experiential learning program and much more!

There’s nothing more rewarding than helping future generations reach their full potential at a world-class university. With our wide variety of career opportunities and professional development pathways, we’re sure that you’ll enjoy the experience as much as our students do.

Position purpose:

The incumbent provides strategic and engaging leadership in the design, implementation, and continuous transformation of digital experiential learning initiatives, emphasizing learner self-direction, flexibility, and local relevance. Through their vision, they drive the digital transformation of experiential learning at the institutional level, unite internal and external partners, and ensure the development of transferable skills essential to learner success. They are responsible for teaching the central self-directed course, overseeing its evolution, and supporting active learner engagement in contextualized formats that promote agency, critical reflection, and transferable skill development.

Working closes with internal and external partners, they contribute to enhancing and differentiating existing digital pathways, and developing new ones, by integrating adapted experiential modules. They ensure the quality, alignment, and institutional coherence of the digital experiential offerings, supporting goals of innovation, accessibility, and local, national, and international outreach.

Simultaneously, they develop and lead the strategy for the development, implementation, and evolution of a portfolio of extracurricular micro-credentials aligned with the needs of a rapidly changing job market, promoting the acquisition, application, and mastery of transferable skills—both general ("soft skills") and technical (project management, digital skills, etc.).
 

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

Strategic Planning (35%)

• Leads, in collaboration with campus partners (faculties, services, etc.), the vision, development, and evolution of the institutional strategy on experiential learning related to self-directed courses, emphasizing learner agency, transferable skills development, and critical thinking.

• Actively contributes to the development of the institutional digital strategy by working closely with campus partners (both central and faculty levels) to ensure the integration of experiential components in the institutional digital offerings.

• Oversees the development, implementation, and evolution of the extracurricular micro-credentials portfolio focused on transferable skills (both technical and general), enriching learners’ academic paths and supporting their professional integration, while aligning with labor market realities.

• Defines clear and measurable objectives for each initiative, incorporating impact and performance indicators to guide actions and adjust strategy

Competency Development through Digital Experiential Learning and Extracurricular Micro-credentials (40%)

• Develops, in collaboration with internal and external partners, the digital experiential learning strategy (including self-directed courses) from design through implementation and ongoing evolution.

• Teaches the core self-directed course, fostering learner agency while ensuring maximum flexibility and appropriate (local, cultural, etc.) contextualization.

• Develops digital experiential learning modules designed for seamless and sustainable integration into the digital strategy, adaptable to learners’ diverse geographical, cultural, and community contexts.

• Develops and evolves a portfolio of extracurricular micro-credentials aligned with labor market needs, which can be paired with experiential activities to foster the development of technical and general skills.

Management, Institutional Deployment, and Sustainability of Initiatives (25%)

• Oversees a rigorous, continuous evaluation process for initiatives under their responsibility, in collaboration with institutional and faculty partners, relying on performance indicators focused on learner experience and development.

• Ensures the long-term sustainability of projects by developing and implementing appropriate pricing and funding models that generate revenue and guarantee viability, while maintaining strict budget management.

• Provides strategic leadership in establishing, maintaining, and developing a complex network of internal (faculties, services, etc.) and external (postsecondary institutions, private and community partners, etc.) partnerships essential to project success, sustainability, and innovation.

• Supports stakeholders in digital transformation and the development of learner agency, promoting change adoption and fostering innovation in a dynamic context.

• Manages a complex network of internal and external collaborations to support sustainable project deployment within the context of digital transformation.

What you will bring:

• Doctorate (PhD) in a relevant field (e.g., humanities, education, social sciences, etc.) combined with professional training (e.g., management diploma such as an MBA or equivalent).

• At least five years of relevant experience in strategic project management and program implementation in a complex environment such as a postsecondary institution.

• Experience in designing, evaluating, and supervising experiential learning and career preparation programs.

• Bilingualism – French and English (oral and written).

• In-depth knowledge of approaches to foster transferable skills development, including human skills.

• Excellent ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders, both internal (faculties, services, etc.) and external (community partners, private sector, etc.).

• Competencies and attributes: inspiring leadership, strategic thinking, critical analysis, innovative mindset, etc.

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.

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