Are you passionate about adult education, instructional design, and building meaningful relationships with industry stakeholders? Do you enjoy transforming technical expertise into engaging learning experiences that make a real difference?
Are you a fan of the motion picture, performing arts and live event industries? Are you looking to have a strong sense of purpose in your job and want to join an exceptional team with a thriving culture in a physically and psychologically safe workplace?
Actsafe Safety Association has a mission of preventing workplace injuries, illness and fatalities in BC's arts and entertainment industry. Actsafe is part-way through a five-year strategic plan (2023–2027), and is looking for an Industry Education & Training Senior Specialist to lead the development of innovative training programs, collaborate with industry experts, facilitate working group discussions, facilitate train-the-trainer programs, and elevate the quality of learning across our sector.
If you are someone who thrives at the intersection of education, leadership, and stakeholder engagement– the Actsafe Team would like to meet you!!
This position has primary oversight of the following responsibilities:
· Curriculum Design - Leads instructional design, development, implementation, and evaluation for all Actsafe–owned Industry Education & Training (IET) program offerings, including courses, workshops, and webinars, including self-led, facilitator led, in-person, and virtual deliveries. Designs requirements for certification programs (e.g. LPEC, etc.), including knowledge assessments. Manages, utilizes and optimizes the department’s course creation platforms, such as Articulate 360, and uses artificial intelligence tools to develop training programs.
· IET Creation – Guided by adult learning principles and instructional design theory, facilitates the process of clarifying the vision for IET projects, and defines the scope and success criteria. Leads the design and creation of accurate, innovative, engaging, and motivating learning solutions including courses and workshops, as well as developing learning outcomes, course descriptions, and related training content and materials (facilitator and participant guides, knowledge assessments, surveys). Utilizes course creation platforms such as Rise and Storyline, and applies and implements the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) Model.
· IET Opportunity Discovery – Through research and data analytics, this individual proposes appropriate programs to address the education and training needs of the BC arts and entertainment industry and help support health and safety systems development. Manages the industry idea and request repository and supports the management team in its discovery process and strategic visioning of determining which opportunities to pursue. Reviews instructional design of “off the shelf” courses and provides recommendations.
· Subject Matter Expert (SME) – Has the senior-most expertise in adult education and instructional design and contributes this towards their projects and other team members’ projects.
· Quality Assurance– Creates, implements, maintains, and reviews the IET program quality assurance program, establishing and improving processes that ensure the final product or service meets industry need and quality standards. Proposes, creates, implements and reviews mechanisms to collect feedback, audits, evaluates the effectiveness, and provides feedback on IET programs, including outsourced training providers. Pilots, evaluates and updates newly developed offerings. This may include workshop participant and facilitator guides, onboarding facilitators, workshop evaluations, SME role, facilitation guidelines.
· Train the Facilitator - Facilitates train-the-facilitator onboardingfor SME facilitators via workshop lesson plans for consistent delivery. Analyzes data from feedback mechanisms and provides facilitators with coaching to support their growth and development. Plays a key role working with Actsafe’s roster of in-house facilitators, both staff and contractors, as well as guiding and ensuring high quality deliveries from outsourced training providers.
· IET Program Content Maintenance - Reviews and updates existing IET program offerings, particularly in relation to regulation, industry changes, and effective learner outcomes.
· Subject Matter Expert (SME) Liaison- Solicits input and feedback from technical advisory committee (TACs), standing committee members, SMEs, and internal team members. Facilitates working group discussions, and liaises as the learning designer with the team in achieving the learning outcomes of the resources and workshops/courses.
· IET Program Manual – Supports the implementation of the organization’s IET Program Manual, as well as assists in its maintenance, updating and continual improvement. Supports the development of standards, guidelines (e.g., standardized language), policies and procedures for the IET Program.
Other:
· Event management – Supports the coordination of internal team-based events (e.g., holiday functions, staff gatherings) and external stakeholder events (e.g., Actsafe Injury Prevention (AIP) initiatives, as well as the Actsafe Entertainment Safety Conference (AESC), including being on-site, as needed.
· Team Player & Culture Contributor- Works in a manner aligned with organizational values. Emulates Actsafe’s values and contributes to a positive, healthy culture.
· Travel may be required throughout the province, as well as performing other duties, as requested.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
· Education - Completion of post-secondary education of Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in relevant field (e.g., Adult Education, Instructional Design) required.
· Experience – 5-8+ years of experience in the adult education & training field, in course and curriculum development, and facilitation required. 2+ years of occupational health & safety and arts & entertainment industry experience preferred.
· Technology - Proficient in using Microsoft 365 – Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Excel. Experience in other systems/software/technology considered an asset, including virtual meetings (Zoom), customer relationship management (CRM), learning management systems (LMS), DoodlePoll, Articulate 360 and Monday.com.
· Certifications- Provincial Instructor Diploma Program (PIDP) is required. A valid Class 5 BC Drivers Licence and access to a vehicle preferred.
· Ideal Competencies - emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, innovation, change management, relationship management, adult education subject matter expertise, self-led, accountable, organizational awareness, organizational effectiveness, communication, collaboration and results-oriented.
What we offer:
Actsafe offers a total rewards package including:
· Salary: $90,000-$110,000 depending on education, designations and experience
· Extended Health Benefits (EHB) Plan
· An 8-hour workday (with paid 30 min lunch break)/40-hour workweek
· A flexible workplace with a mix of in-office (Burnaby) and remote work opportunities
· A rich paid time off and professional development budget
· Challenging work that provides you with a sense of purpose
· Passionate, diverse, skilled, fun team members
· Engaged and collaborative stakeholders
· A physically and psychologically safe and healthy workplace culture
What is Actsafe?
Actsafe is a not-for-profit health and safety association, with a growing $2.5M operating budget, supporting BC's production of motion pictures, television, live events and performing arts industry’s 3000 employers and 60,000 workers. Its vision is that British Columbia has the safest and healthiest arts and entertainment workplaces in the world, and its mission is to prevent and eliminate workplace injury, illness and death by providing world-class occupational health, safety, and wellbeing programs to employers, supervisors, and workers.
Who is the Actsafe team? At Actsafe Safety Association, we consider a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to be one where all members of the team, stakeholders, community, and individuals whose personal characteristics fall into any of the prohibited grounds of discrimination under Canadian Human Rights Law feel valued and respected. We are committed to fostering a non-discriminatory workplace culture and providing equal employment and advancement opportunities throughout our organization. We respect, encourage, and value diverse voices because we believe that innovation and creativity are driven by inclusiveness and cultivated by diverse backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
