Manager Education Excellence

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The Safety Codes Council is a leader in Alberta’s structural and technical safety system. What we do matters. Our work helps make the province safer, supports healthy communities, and contributes to lasting economic growth and prosperity.

As an independent regulatory agency, the Council is responsible for helping ensure that Alberta’s structures and equipment are safe, accessible, and resilient.

What sets us apart isn't just the impact of our work. It's how we do it. Our people are trusted professionals who value sound judgment, learning, and integrity. We've built a collaborative, service-oriented culture where work is meaningful and people are supported to grow, contribute, and do their best work.

Education plays an important role in supporting Alberta's safety codes system. Through relevant, accessible, and high-quality learning experiences, we support Safety Codes Officers, Master Electricians, and Petroleum Tank Installers and Removers in meeting certification requirements and developing throughout their careers.

We're looking for a Manager, Education Excellence who brings together expertise in education and a people-focused approach to leadership. This role provides leadership to a team of education professionals, enabling them to deliver high-quality learning experiences and continually strengthen education services that support Alberta's safety codes system.

About the Role

This role leads the team responsible for education programs that support certification and professional development across Alberta's safety codes system. Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Certification & Education, you'll provide leadership and direction to a team of education professionals while ensuring education remains aligned with learner needs, certification requirements, and organizational priorities.

Drawing on your expertise in adult learning, curriculum development, and program leadership, you'll help guide education strategy, support sound decisions, and create the conditions for the team to deliver meaningful learning experiences and outcomes. Success in this role comes from combining educational expertise with a people-focused approach to leadership, enabling others to do their best work while continuously improving education as a service.

How This Role Supports the Council

• Lead and enable a high-performing team: Create belonging and clarity, build capability, and empower education professionals to deliver high-quality programs and services that support learners across Alberta.


• Guide education priorities: Use learner needs, certification requirements, stakeholder insights, and evidence to focus effort and investment where it can create the greatest value.


• Support meaningful learning experiences: Ensure education remains relevant, accessible, technically sound, and grounded in effective adult learning and instructional design practices.


• Improve education as a service: Use learner feedback, program performance information, and service insights to evaluate effectiveness, prioritize improvements, and strengthen the value education creates.


• Build partnerships that expand impact: Collaborate with educational institutions, industry partners, subject matter experts, and internal teams to support strong education outcomes across the safety codes system.

What You’ll Do

• People and Team Leadership: Lead and develop the Education Excellence team by creating belonging and clarity, building capability, supporting growth, and fostering a culture of accountability, trust, and continuous learning. Translate organizational priorities into meaningful outcomes and ensure the team has the resources, support, and direction needed to succeed.


• Education Strategy and Program Leadership: Guide education priorities using learner needs, certification requirements, stakeholder insights, and evidence. Lead the development, delivery, and evaluation of education programs that are relevant, accessible, and effective.


• Learner Experience and Outcomes: Use learner feedback, participation trends, assessment results, and other evidence to evaluate experiences, strengthen programs, and improve outcomes.


• Quality and Partnerships: Establish expectations for educational quality and maintain productive relationships with educational institutions, external providers, subject matter experts, industry stakeholders, and internal teams.


• Continuous Improvement and Resource Leadership: Steward resources responsibly, remove barriers, and support innovation, ensuring Education Excellence continues to evolve in response to learner and system needs. Identify opportunities, prioritize improvements, and strengthen the value education creates for learners and stakeholders.

What You Bring

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary education in education, adult education, instructional design, curriculum development, learning and development, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.


• A master’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.


• Progressive professional experience, typically five or more years, in education, training, curriculum development, learning program management, or a related field.


• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing people and achieving outcomes through others.


• Experience designing, implementing, overseeing, or evaluating education and training programs, including the application of adult learning and instructional design principles.


• Experience using learner insights, assessment results, program information, and other evidence to improve programs or services and manage multiple priorities, projects, or resources.

Knowledge and Leadership Approach

Education expertise. You bring strong knowledge of adult learning, curriculum development, instructional design, needs assessment, and education quality. Your expertise gives you the credibility to ask thoughtful questions, guide decisions, and support education professionals in doing their best work.

People leadership. You create belonging and clarity, develop capability, and establish accountability while giving people trust, context, and room to own their work. You lead with kindness, humility, reliability, and integrity, and you are attentive to both results and how they are achieved.

Learner and service focus. You take time to understand the people and experiences behind the work. You focus the team on improvements that create meaningful value, rather than defaulting to familiar solutions or measuring activity alone.

Product mindset and sound judgment. You connect needs, outcomes, evidence, and trade-offs. You are comfortable learning through feedback, testing ideas responsibly, adjusting direction, and making timely decisions when information is incomplete.

Collaboration and communication. You build trusted relationships across teams and organizations, value different perspectives, communicate openly, clarify roles and decisions, and resolve dependencies and barriers constructively.

Assets

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset:

• Professional certification or competency-based education.


• Regulatory, public-sector, or similarly complex environments.


• Working with external education providers, educational institutions, industry partners, or mixed delivery models.


• Establishing or monitoring education quality standards and provider performance.


• Digital learning, learning technologies, or technology-enabled service improvement.


• Alberta's safety codes system, certification systems, regulatory environments, or public administration.

Why Safety Codes Council?

You’ll find meaningful work in a collaborative, service-oriented environment that values curiosity, integrity, sound judgment, and learning.

In this role, you will lead a talented team whose work supports certification, professional development, and high-quality learning experiences across Alberta’s safety codes system. You’ll have the opportunity to develop people, influence education priorities, strengthen partnerships, and help ensure education continues to respond to learner and system needs.

Along with purpose-driven work, we offer a competitive total rewards package that supports wellbeing, growth, and balance, including:

• Competitive salary, commensurate with education and demonstrated experience.


• Starting four weeks of vacation, plus personal days.


• 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums.


• A health and lifestyle spending account.


• Professional development support.


• A flexible, employer-matched retirement savings plan.


• A full-time work week of 36.25 hours, Monday to Friday.


• A hybrid work environment that supports focus, collaboration, and flexibility.

By joining the Council, you’ll be part of a purpose-driven organization where your work helps others do their best work. We support our people with meaningful opportunities, a trusting and supportive culture, and room to grow while contributing to a safer Alberta.

If this sounds like a great fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.