Advisor
Your Opportunity:
Are you a creative learning professional who wants to make a tangible difference in the lives of healthcare workers? Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) within Health Shared Services is looking for an innovative and collaborative Instructional Design and Developer to help shape safety learning across Alberta’s healthcare system. In this role, you will design, curate, and manage an extensive library of safety training content that directly contributes to safer workplaces for our frontline workers and leaders. WHS strives to provide high-end educational content that assists in keeping our workforce safe while meeting organizational policy and Occupational Health and Safety legislation. As part of the WHS Training and Program Improvement (TPI) Team, you will join a dynamic, multidisciplinary group that works collaboratively with diverse subject matter experts to deliver critical training support. Your creativity will transform complex technical safety regulations into meaningful learner-centric educational experiences. If you are passionate about modern learning methodologies, thrive in collaborative spaces, and want your work to have a lasting provincial impact, we want you on our team.
Description:
As an Instructional Design Developer on the WHS TPI team, you will bring your instructional design expertise to various portfolios within WHS to assist in the creation of impactful educational and legislative content. You will work closely with our communications and development teams to ensure that all digital assets and learning programs meet Health Shared Services communications and branding standards. Collaboration is at the heart of our work, and you will actively participate in broader TPI team and project meetings to align your design direction, share best practices, and integrate valuable insights from ongoing discussions. Additionally, as an engaged member of the wider WHS community, you will contribute to provincial team meetings, workshops, and activities. This includes delivering presentations, supporting peer learning, representing the team, and participating in overall team-building efforts to foster a supportive work environment.
- Transition Company: Health Shared Services
- Classification: Advisor
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Workplace Health & Safety
- Primary Location: Centre 5010
- Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location: Provincial
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 25-SEP-2026
- Date Available: 19-OCT-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $31.64
- Maximum Salary: $54.36
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
To be successful in this role, you must possess extensive experience in instructional design that blends education, communication, and multimedia skills to apply adult learning principles intentionally. Because our team is responsible for both the conceptual design and technical development of our courses, you must deeply understand the underlying principles of both phases to create meaningful, effective learning experiences. You must also demonstrate advanced proficiency in educational technology tools, such as Articulate Studio, Rise, and Storyline, bridging adult learning principles with innovative and meaningful digital delivery. Additionally, you need a strong background in graphic design to craft intentional, visually engaging layouts that enhance the overall learner experience. Your design work must establish an intuitive content flow and capture learner attention.
Additional Required Qualifications:
You bring expertise in both synchronous and asynchronous learning methodologies, along with proven strategies for fostering active learner engagement. You excel at collaborating with partners and subject matter experts, using strong active listening, facilitation, and relationship-building skills to understand and incorporate diverse perspectives. You demonstrate sound judgement and critical thinking when evaluating feedback, balancing operational requirements, legislative obligations, copyright standards, and adult learning practices. Your technical toolkit includes full-cycle eLearning development, which encompasses scriptwriting, multimedia recording, and precise video and audio editing. You are highly skilled in managing digital assets within cloud or SharePoint environments, developing responsive mobile-friendly courses, troubleshooting technical issues, and utilizing SCORM Cloud to ensure Learning Management System compliance and automate testing for seamless deployment. To support and revise our existing suite of training assets, you possess hands-on proficiency with the Articulate suite, Camtasia, Photoshop, and PowerPoint. Experience with auxiliary creative software such as Illustrator, and Visio is also required to generate fresh, visually polished course elements that make the complexity of workplace health and safety’s accessible to all.
Preferred Qualifications:
An ideal candidate will hold a formal degree or certificate in Adult Learning or Education, with a specific focus on Workplace Learning. Specialized, advanced training in Articulate Storyline or comparable industry-standard instructional design software is highly preferred.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
