Senior Specialist, Experiential Learning Innovation

Follow us on LinkedIn Posting Reason: New Position Job Type: Employee Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments): N/A Job Family: Academic Delivery Support # of Open Positions: 1 Faculty/Service - Department: Student Affairs, CDEL Community Engagement and Employability Partnerships Campus: Main Campus Union Affiliation: SSUO Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/10/01 Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/10/12 Hours per week: 35 Salary Grade: SSUO Grade 11 Salary Range: $95,594.00 - $120,750.00 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 enrol 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 serves as the methodological backbone of the University of Ottawa’s interdisciplinary and challenge- based learning programming. Bringing expertise in systems thinking, design thinking and human-centered design, the role supports faculties and programs in integrating highly participatory, student-centered processes. The incumbent maintains an institution-wide perspective, ensuring the coherence and visibility of the experiential learning offering and its alignment with related university initiatives. Finally, the incumbent also stewards an internal funding mechanism enabling faculty to pilot experiential learning innovation with internal collaborators and external partners. In this role, your responsibilities will include: 1. Coordinate and deliver experiential learning programming Coordinate and actively support the delivery of 6–8 interdisciplinary challenges and 3–5 additional innovative experiential courses each year across faculties. Ensure quality, consistency and pedagogical coherence across the portfolio, aligning challenges and courses with related institutional initiatives — notably the In-depth Experiential Learning Stream (IELS) — to support a coherent university-wide experiential learning ecosystem. Document the function’s methodological knowledge by producing progress reports, positioning documents and reference tools…