Instructional Designer

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Assessment accommodation

Duties

The pedagogical expertise cell supports RMC Saint-Jean's mission to develop bilingual leaders imbued with exemplary that serve Canada with distinction.

As part of Pedagogical Expertise Cell, you will be called upon to promote of pedagogy and success through providing Royal Military College Saint-Jean’s teaching staff and learners with:
- Expert counselling in pedagogy, educational technologies and special needs education
- Design, development and evaluation of didactical material
- Learning and teaching support services

Key activities:
- Conduct needs analysis
- Develop, maintain and review programmes and courses, learning evaluation tools as well as multimedia material.
- Design and develop learning material such as training plans, lesson plans
- Deliver training to personnel on subjects pertaining to pedagogy and education in general.
- Offer expert advice to the teaching staff on subjects pertaining to programmes, courses and learning evaluation tools.
- Ensure the conformity of didactic material.

Work environment

The Department of National Defence (DND) is one of the largest federal government employers, offering over 70 different types of civilian career opportunities. DND's role is to provide services and support to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in their operations and missions at home and abroad. As a civilian employee, you will be an essential part of the Defence Team. In this regard, the department fosters a work environment where employees have opportunities to grow, to learn, to progress in their careers and where they experience job satisfaction.

Royal Military College Saint-Jean – Pedagogical Expertise Cell:

Looking for new opportunities to develop your skill set through a variety of educational projects as an ED-EDS-02 Instructional designer? Do you want to contribute to adult learning success, provide expert advice to trainers and teachers, facilitate training workshops, design and develop learning material, etc.

Join the team of the Pedagogical Expertise Cell at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC Saint-Jean) within the Department of National Defence!!

RMC Saint-Jean is a military teaching establishment (college, university, professional development). It is located on the banks of the Richelieu River (30 minutes from Montreal), on the historic site of Fort Saint-Jean, where it is possible to relax during a break or over lunch with its green spaces and old trees. You have access to free parking and an affordable cafeteria. In addition, there are sports facilities (swimming pool, gym, various courses).

In the federal public service, you will have access to excellent working conditions, pension and group insurance (medical and dental), job security, professional development, as well as a possibility of flexible hours / part-time teleworking.

Intent of the process

This process will be used to staff 2 term positions for 2 years and 2 indeterminate position. A pool of partially qualified candidates may be established from this process to staff the same or similar positions within National Defence.

Positions to be filled: 4

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education

At the time of hire, have:

Graduation with a master’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in education or didactic or instructional design or another specialization related to the positions in the group to be filled.
OR
Any other master's degree combined with a graduate degree (min. 30 Quebec credits or 10 courses) in education, didactics, instructional design or any field related to education.

Degree equivalency

Experience
EX1. Recent* and significant** Experience providing educational advice to various types of stakeholders (content expert, trainer, management)
EX2. Recent* and significant** Experience in the design, development and evaluation of multimedia materials (online and classroom)
EX3. Experience using a systems approach to program/course development
EX4. Experience in managing training projects

* Recent experience means these tasks were exercised within the past 5 years

** Significant experience is defined as the degree and diversity of the experience by the regular execution of the said tasks over a period of approximately of 3 years.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Bilingual - Imperative (CCC/PPP)
Bilingual - imperative CCC/CCC

Information on language requirements

Knowledge
K1 - Knowledge of the theories and principles in education and adult learning (andragogy-pedagogy).
K2 - Knowledge of training methodologies and techniques such as using case studies, role-play, structured experiences etc.
K3 - Knowledge of advanced MS Word and MS PowerPoint functions

Abilities / Competencies
A1 - Ability to plan, develop, organize and deliver training to adult learners
A2 - Ability to manage the educational programme development process by identifying the actions to follow as well as identifying potential difficulties and solutions.
A3 - Ability to use Articulate Storyline or other rapid development tool

Personal Suitability
PS1. Demonstrating integrity and respect
PS2. Thinking things through
PS3. Working effectively with others
PS4. Showing initiative and being action-oriented

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (asset qualifications):

Education
Recognized certification in any of the following areas: project management, talent management, workshop facilitation, administration of psychometric instruments, other

Degree equivalency

Experience:
Experience in developing post-secondary programs and courses
Experience in teaching adults at post-secondary level
Experience in facilitation

Knowledge
- Knowledge of the facilitation skills and techniques.
- Knowledge of topics related to leadership and team development.

Abilities:
- Ability to maximize the visual design of learning content

Organizational Needs

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - All employees of the core public administration are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and attest to their vaccination status, whether they telework, work remotely or on-site, unless accommodated based on a medical contraindication, religion, or another prohibited ground for discrimination as defined under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Should you reach the point in the selection process where it is necessary to verify terms and conditions of employment, you will be contacted to complete an attestation of vaccination status.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

COMMUNICATION WITH APPLICANTS

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results and sending invitations for written tests and interviews).

Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

ASSESSMENT

You may be assessed using the following tools: exam, interview, teaching performance, presentation of a portfolio, reference checks.

To maintain a balanced multidisciplinary team, asset qualifications can be invoked as essential qualifications as identified by the hiring manager. For this reason, candidates are strongly encouraged to answer all screening questions related to Asset criteria in order to increase their chances.

ON-SITE WORK AND TELEWORK

While there are opportunities for flexible hours and part-time teleworking, you will need to be able to commute to work at the job site, which is the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Our organization will only accept on-line applications for this advertisement. All job applications must therefore be submitted through www.canada.ca/government-jobs. For this advertisement, applicants will be required to provide information which is only accessible when applying on-line (namely the job questionnaire).

The following are some of the benefits associated with applying online:
- Applicants can create a profile and a resume that can be used when applying for other processes without having to recreate a new application each time.
- Applicants can modify their application/resume at any time BEFORE the closing date indicated on the job advertisement.
- Applicants can verify the status of their applications, at any time.
- Applicants can be notified electronically of tests or interviews and results.
- For some jobs, applicants will find important information, namely the screening questionnaire and a complete statement of merit criteria that are only available when applying online.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.