Specialist, Learning & Development

Specialist, Employee Learning & Development

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CA $46.28/hr - CA $57.85/hr

Department: Employee Learning & Development

Position Type: Fixed Term Administrative

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

36.25

Anticipated

Start Date:

February 23, 2026

Length of

Contract:

12 months

Posting Information: This job posting is now accepting applications from all qualified individuals.

Posting Closing Date: January 11, 2026

Please note:

jobs are posted until 11:59 pm on the job closing date.

Algonquin College campuses in Ottawa, Perth and Pembroke are located on the traditional unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Anishinàbe Algonquin People. The Algonquin People have inhabited and cared for these lands since time immemorial. We take this time to express our gratitude and respect to them and to the land for all that it has provided and will continue to provide.

Ready to make a real impact on how people learn, grow, and succeed?

Join our dynamic Employee Learning & Development Team on a one-year contract as a Specialist, Employee Learning & Development, where you will play a key role in shaping how performance, career growth, and succession are supported across the College.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who is looking to have ownership of their work, strengthening programs, and building trusted relationships with people leaders. You will take ideas from concept to execution, leverage digital tools, and design practical frameworks that support effective performance, career, and succession practices in a complex and evolving environment.

Algonquin College is a place where people care deeply about learning, growth, and community. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work that touches every employee across the College, strengthens the organization, and ultimately enhances the experience of our learners.

• Lead the design, delivery and continuous improvement of performance development programs across the College, including enablement of core processes leveraging Workday, the College’s HR information system.
• Coordinate and support key components of the annual performance development cycle, including communications, documentation, tracking, reporting, calibration and audit activities, ensuring processes are clear, consistent, and well supported.
• Coach, mentor and support people leaders in effective performance and career conversations by providing practical guidance, tools, and training related to performance and career development processes.
• Analyze performance data and translate insights into recommendations that strengthen workforce capability and alignment with institutional priorities.
• Lead and support succession planning frameworks, success profiles, tools, and processes for key roles, partnering with leaders on talent identification and calibration.
• Apply an inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) lens to succession and talent practices in collaboration with IDEA and other partners.
• Lead the implementation of career pathing frameworks, development plans and deliver one‑on‑one career development and coaching sessions to support employee growth.
• Design and maintain tools and resources, and deliver training that support career development, succession identification, and workforce planning.
• Partner across HR and the College to embed scalable, sustainable performance, succession, and career practices that support long‑term institutional goals. This includes collaboration with Strategy to align with institutional and business plan priorities, and application of learning and development expertise to support strategic workforce planning skills forecasting and future capability needs.
• Exercise a high degree of discretion and professional judgement in handling sensitive and confidential employee information, including performance outcomes, succession planning, and talent decisions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement through thoughtful…