Director of Quality Assurance, Graduate Programs

Job Title: Director of Quality Assurance, Graduate Programs
Job Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Job Ref.: J1113-0688
Company/Employer: The University of Ottawa
Job Type: Regular Full Time
Job Reports To: Vice-Dean
Salary (Grade: NM1) Hiring salary range; $69,971-$87,465, Salary Range Max; $96,210
About Us
The University of Ottawa aspires to employing a staff that fully represents the diversity of Canada’s population. As a result, it is committed to employment equity principles and aims to provide an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Therefore, the University encourages you to fill out the optional section that covers employment equity when you create your profile.

Job Purpose:
In July 2011, the University of Ottawa implemented its new Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) to help in creating and making changes to graduate programs as well as to support the cyclical evaluations of these programs. The incumbent leads the IQAP implementation for graduate programs while fostering our new institutional culture of continuous improvement.

Job Requirements:

• A graduate degree in program evaluation, or equivalent in a related field such as business or public administration (a bachelor’s degree and seven or more years’ experience in university administration may also be considered)
• In-depth knowledge of university programs, operations, governance, structure as well as administrative and internal mechanisms and policies 
• Experience in program evaluation
• Experience in project development and management
• Experience using of a wide variety of information systems and software applications, including Windows and Microsoft Office

Key competencies required at the University of Ottawa:

• Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
• Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
• Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
• Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

Other competencies:

• Strong strategic, analytical and critical-thinking skills; excellent ability in writing reports destined for management committees and other decision-making bodies
• Excellent organizational skills; excellent ability to manage priorities, tight deadlines and follow up on deliverables; strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated effective problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to forge and maintain partnerships; awareness of workplace climate; ability to work as a team member with the leadership skills required to facilitate open communication
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people; superior interpersonal skills; excellent communication and negotiation skills; creativity and problem-solving skills in order to resolve problems
• Excellent communication skills, spoken and written, in both official languages

Note: This position is excluded from all union accreditation units. All applications will be considered equally.

Schedule with an average of 35hrs/week.

CODL certificates can be considered an asset. Don’t forget to add them to your resume.

We thank all candidates for applying. We will only contact candidates selected for further consideration.

If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any particular adaptive measures you might require. Any information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence.
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Deadline Date: 02/02/2014

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