Program Development Specialist - Mississauga, Canada - Skilled Trades Ontario

Description

Position Title:
Program Development Specialist

Position Type:
Fixed-Term Contract

Position Duration:
Eighteen (18) Months

Location:
Mississauga, ON

Job Band: 10

Salary Range:
$ $50.23 / hour

Hours of work: 36.25 hr/week

Reporting to:
Supervisor, Standards

This posting is applicable to:
Internal & External Applicants

Skilled Trades Ontario is a Crown agency responsible for skilled trades certification in Ontario, which includes:

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  Establishing apprenticeship programs, including training standards, curriculum standards and certification exams

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Assessing experience and qualifications of individuals who have not completed an apprenticeship program in Ontario
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Issuing Certificates of Qualification in all trades with certifying exams
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Renewing Certificates of Qualification in compulsory trades
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Maintaining a Public Register of people authorized to work in compulsory trades
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Conducting research in relation to apprenticeship and the trades

Skilled Trades Ontario (STO) is currently seeking a Program Development Specialist to join our Standards department to develop and maintain apprenticeship programs, training and curriculum standards, tests and examinations for trades, and provide consultative advice to STO's governance structure and external stakeholders on trade viability, training design, development and certification.

Responsibilities:

• 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 trainingrelated committees and meetings; and resolve occupational and traderelated 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 tradesrelated 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 onthejob training standards and inschool/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, interprovincially 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.

Qualifications:

• Experience with occupational analysis to design, develop and validate trades scopes of practice, training and curriculum standards, and prior learning assessments.
• Superior writing and editing skills with the ability to draft and review materials as well as suggest and make changes to correct and improve documents to ensure that all written materials are accurate, accessible and of high quality.
• Detailed understanding of the development of assessment tools, specifically: testing, measurement and evaluation principles, criteria and normreferenced assessment principles, and statistical analysis usually acquired through a combination of related education and experience.
• Understanding of issues related to key demographics who are experiencing barriers entering trades, (e.g., newcomers, women, youth, etc.,) conducting needs assessments.
• Experience in the development of trainingdesign and tools based on those needs.
• Experience in project management, relevant to managing a portfolio of products/accounts, demonstrating techniques and methods to plan, monitor, collaborate, manage scope of work, resources, and reevaluating direction, etc.

Knowledge of:

• Knowledge of Ontario ministries, STO, labour standards and legislation, and other tradespecific regulations and policies to provide information, analysis and interpretation to stakeholders for ensuring compliance in the development of training standards and assessments, and the operation of trade boards.
• Knowledge of the apprenticeship system in Ontario and across Canada.

Skills include:

• Superior verbal communication skills.
• Consultation and presentation skills to provide advice and act as the primary liaison between STO a