Lead, Learning Design
If you’re excited about building systems that empower others to lead and want to help shape Canada’s next generation of entrepreneurial, AI-ready talent for the future of work, we’d love to hear from you!
Venture for Canada is a national registered charity equipping talent across Canada with the entrepreneurial skills, mindset, and opportunities to succeed in a 21st-century economy increasingly shaped by rapid change and emerging technology. We believe that to be entrepreneurial is to act upon opportunities to create value for others. The resourcefulness and creativity of people across Canada are essential to addressing our country’s greatest challenges. Venture for Canada serves as a catalyst by empowering individuals to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and innovative society.
Since 2013, Venture for Canada has grown in meaningful ways, and we’re excited to expand our team with values-aligned individuals who can contribute to what we’re building. To learn more about our hiring process and workplace philosophy, visit our Careers page.
Role Overview
The Learning Design Lead plays a critical role in shaping and delivering the learning experience for Venture for Canada ’s Student Programs, including our Internship and Intrapreneurship Programs. This role leads the design of curriculum, learning materials, live sessions, and multi-day participant events that help post-secondary students across Canada build entrepreneurial skills, mindsets, and confidence.
Reporting to the Student Programs Manager, the Learning Design Lead is a strong curriculum designer, facilitator, and project lead. They understand how to turn learning goals into practical, engaging experiences for young adult learners. They are collaborative, organized, audience-focused, and comfortable working across programs, teams, facilitators, and external partners.
This role owns the full cycle of identifying, vetting, and onboarding subject matter experts to co-create and deliver learning experiences. It also includes supporting the Student Programs Team with the setup and maintenance of admissions and matching workflows, including via HubSpot (approximately 20% of the role).
Key Role Responsibilities
Curriculum Strategy & Learning Experience Design
- Collaborate with the Student Programs Manager to design, articulate, and deliver the curriculum strategy and learning experiences for each cohort of our Student Programs
- Support the Leadership Team to ideate and design training curriculum for future program offerings targeting post-secondary students
- Contribute to current and future Student Programs curriculum strategy by:
- Maintaining expertise on post-secondary students in Canada as the target audience for Student Programs training
- Staying current on relevant trends, reports, research, and learner needs that should inform curriculum changes
- Identifying opportunities to improve the participant learning experience across self-paced, live, virtual, and in-person formats
Learning Materials, Resources & Participant Communications
- Lead the design and delivery of materials, resources, communications, and sessions for current and future Student Programs training
- Scope, design, and deliver self-paced learning materials for Student Programs participants during their participation in the program
- Develop participant-facing resources, facilitator guides, session materials, learning activities, and related training assets
- Support the broader organization to understand and communicate the Internship and Intrapreneurship Program curricula to participants, employers, funders, and other stakeholders
Live Learning Sessions & Facilitation
- Scope, design, and deliver live learning sessions for Student Programs participants during their participation in the program
- Serve as a trainer and facilitator across Venture for Canada programs when needed
- Own the process of sourcing, vetting, onboarding, briefing, and supporting external facilitators, s