Camosun College
Director, Learning Services

Camosun College is located in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia with campuses on the Traditional Territories of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. The college is a highly respected, values-driven institution, renowned for creativity, innovation, and supporting diverse constituencies. Camosun delivers 160 programs to over 18,000 full-time and part-time learners; employs 1200 staff; and has been recognized as one of Canada’s top Research Colleges while being known for teaching excellence. Home to over 1200 Indigenous students, Camosun also welcomes 1800 international students from over 80 different countries.

As the head of Learning Services, you will be accountable for three service units — Libraries, the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), and the Writing Centre (Student Success). These three units provide educational supports, resources and related technology to the college community—students, instructors and staff. Reporting to the Vice President of Student Experience, you will play a key role as a member of the Student Experience leadership team and will be responsible for ensuring the three units work together to make connections, facilitate sensemaking and build community. You will support the team to provide exceptional professional service to the college community with the goal of enhancing a holistic student learning experience. In addition, the Director has a significant role to play in the advancement of Indigenization and the equity, diversity and inclusion work of the college. You will also provide leadership for educational innovation and in leveraging digital resources and tools in the pursuit of quality teaching and learning.

As the ideal candidate, you have progressive experience in leadership roles in libraries, instructional design, quality assurance or educational development in a large, complex organization. You bring an understanding of theory and practice related to distributed education, faculty development, curriculum and library services, including a comprehensive understanding of the trends, issues, research, and challenges related to post-secondary education. You have demonstrated an understanding as well as a record of respectfully reflecting Indigenous community needs and expectations in library, teaching and learning strategies and service design. You have also demonstrated an interest in trying new service paradigms in evaluation of current practice, and have experience with open pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning. You are a strong influencer, and you can achieve results with a broad variety of stakeholders. A Masters in Library and Information Studies is preferred, and some teaching experience is an asset.

Camosun College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to removing accessibility barriers for applicants throughout the recruitment and selection process.