Manager, Learning Design – ( 2500002N )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that works to support operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. Our Functional Services Teams (FSTs) include Corporate Development, Finance, HR, HSSE, IT, Legal, Marketing/Communications, Practice Services and Real Estate and Procurement. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our FSTs are vital to making our Company stronger.

Your Opportunity

The Manager, Learning Design will lead a dynamic team of instructional designers and will work collaboratively with subject matter experts (SMEs) to create innovative, effective, and cutting-edge learning solutions. Reporting to the Director, Global LOD, this role ensures alignment with organizational goals and provides superior employee experience by delivering impactful learning programs that drive professional growth and business results.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive learning strategy aligned with the organization’s business goals and priorities.
• Identify emerging trends, skills, and competencies to future-proof the workforce through innovative learning initiatives.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure learning programs directly contribute to organizational performance and success.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of diverse learning solutions, including eLearning, instructor-led training, blended learning, and microlearning.
• Explore and integrate AI, VR, AR, and other advanced technologies to create dynamic and engaging learning experiences.
• Ensure all instructional materials are innovative, engaging, and aligned with adult learning principles and best practices.
• Support inclusion by incorporating accessible and universal design principles in product development and delivery and facilitate translations.
• Devise modes of assessment, such as tests or quizzes, to measure effectiveness
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring on-time delivery within scope and budget.
• Implement quality assurance processes to ensure the consistency and accuracy of all learning materials.
• Use data and feedback to evaluate program effectiveness and continuously improve content and delivery.

Lead Stantec’s Instructional Design Team

• Lead, manage and develop the instructional design team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to instructional design team members.
• Set key performance goals for team members for individual development and contribution to the organization’s learning success.
• Act as a strategic consultant to leaders, providing guidance on how learning initiatives can solve business challenges and enhance leadership capabilities.
• Facilitate global knowledge sharing and promote a culture of continuous learning.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Extensive experience in designing and executing business-aligned learning strategies within a global context.
• Prior experience leading an instructional design function, including managing teams and overseeing the development and delivery of learning solutions.
• Expertise in instructional design principles, innovative learning technologies, and adult learning theories.
• Proven success in leading and managing high-performing global teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and their application in learning and development.
• Proficiency with learning management systems (LMS), authoring tools (e.g., Articulate, Adobe Captivate), and multimedia development tools.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with the MS Office suite
• Dynamic, adaptable to change and enjoys working in a challenging and collaborative environment.
• Knowledge of course development software such as Articulate 360 and/or Adobe Captivate
• The ability to storyboard/outline course content.
• Experience with graphic design, videography, and photography preferred.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite strongly preferred.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Human Resources, Education, Business, or related field.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee. Other duties, obligations, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

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Salary Range(s)

• Lower Mainland $103,700 – Lower Mainland $155,400 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in BC (Lower Mainland includes Vancouver & Burnaby)

The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver

Other Locations : Canada-Ontario-Toronto, Canada-Ontario-Ottawa, Canada-Alberta-Edmonton

Organization : BC-1197 HR Talent Services-CA Canada

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Manager

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Jan 16, 2025, 10:00:00 PM

Req ID: 2500002N

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans

About Organization

Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.

We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.

Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.

We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.