Director, Teaching Excellence
SAIT's Teaching and Learning Commons
is a vibrant, inclusive and networked Academic Support Service that assists academic leaders and faculty to promote teaching excellence and enhance the student learning experience. The integrated areas of support include enhancing teaching and learning practice – as well as for digital learning, program and curriculum development, quality enhancement and scholarly activity.
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about advancing teaching and learning in higher education? SAIT is seeking a visionary and strategic leader to join our academic division and Teaching and Learning Commons as the Director, Teaching Excellence. Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Teaching & Learning, this is a unique opportunity to shape the future of teaching and teaching development across our polytechnic, fostering a culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
As a key member of the academic leadership team, you will guide the development and implementation of teaching excellence frameworks, lead faculty development initiatives, and encourage cross-institutional synergies. You’ll work closely with academic leaders, faculty, and external partners to ensure the delivery of industry-aligned, student-centered education that meets the highest standards of quality and relevance.
This role oversees a portfolio that ensures teaching and course development excellence across SAIT’s schools is consistently integrated, accessible, and effective in strengthening the student experience. You will mentor and empower Academic leaders to ensure support for faculty development, course delivery, digital learning, and scholarly activity is needs driven, evidence based and aligned to best practices. Working closely with the Director Academic Quality you will create a service culture within the Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) that is inclusive, evidence-based, and aligned with SAIT’s FIRST principles.
Job classification
: Director
Salary range:
$150,000 - 178,000
# of positions:
1
Hours Per Week:
37.5
Posting closing date:
Sep 5, 2025
About SAIT
SAIT is a global leader in applied education. Named one of Alberta’s Top Employers
, we offer the chance to work with a purpose — preparing the next generation of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, advocates and explorers.
Building on our 100+ year history, we’re looking for innovative, bold and collaborative employees who embrace change and deliver world-class customer experiences. Your future starts now at SAIT.
Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is essential to achieving SAIT’s vision to be a global leader in applied education. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Learn more about EDI at SAIT.
At SAIT, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding diverse perspectives to SAIT - so if your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
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