Director, Education Design & Intelligence

TVO Ontario Educational Comms. Authority; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TVO Ontario Educational Comms. Authority is seeking a Director, Education Design & Intelligence to lead TVO’s Learning Experience Design and Production functions.

The role reports to the Vice President, Education and oversees the Manager, Learning Experience Design and Production Manager, shaping AI integration, learning design, and production across TVO’s education portfolio. Based in Toronto and on-site, this senior leadership position focuses on transforming learning experiences with ethical

Job description

Job Category: Management

Requisition Number: DIREC002239

• Posted : October 6, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

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Toronto, ON, CAN

Description

Employment Type: Full-Time Staff | Non-Union

Annual Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000

Division: Education

Reports To: Vice President, Education

Location: 2180 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

TVO Media Education Group ( TVO ) is devoted to inspiring learning that changes lives and enriches communities. We are an internationally recognized digital learning organization that strives to engage, inform, and educate Ontarians of all ages.

Who we are

We are an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education and a registered charity that contributes to learning, civic engagement, and public service media across Ontario. We provide free, trusted, and accessible educational content that can support Ontarians of all ages, regardless of background, location, or circumstance. To fulfill our mandate, TVO delivers curriculum-connected resources through TVO Learn and TVOkids, offers Ontario’s largest online high school through TVO ILC, and produces journalism, documentaries, current affairs programming, and podcasts with TVO Today that help Ontarians understand the issues shaping their communities.

What we’re looking for

TVO’s purpose is to inspire learning that changes lives and enriches communities. Our mission is to create engaging learning experiences for all through quality content, services, and technology. To realize our vision of becoming a globally recognized digital learning organization, we must continually reimagine how learning experiences are designed and delivered.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping education, from assessment and academic integrity to learner pathways, instructional practice, and support. These changes create extraordinary opportunities while raising important questions about equity, accessibility, ethics, and educational quality. TVO has an opportunity to help lead this transformation.

The Director, Education Design & Intelligence will shape how TVO responds. Working across TVOkids, TVO Learn, Mathify, TVO ILC, and emerging lifelong learning initiatives, this leader will guide TVO Education’s approach to AI, advance future-focused learning design, build staff capability, and ensure our learning experiences remain relevant, inclusive, and impactful. This is the opportunity to help TVO Education design what learning becomes next.

The Role

Reporting to the Vice President, Education, the Director, Education Design & Intelligence leads TVO’s Learning Experience Design and Production functions, with direct accountability for the Manager, Learning Experience Design and the Production Manager.

The Director works in close partnership with the Director, Curriculum & Course Production, Director, Content Engagement, and Director, Academic Services. Together, the Directors bring complementary expertise to the design and delivery of TVO’s education portfolio. The Director, Education Design & Intelligence contributes specialized leadership in learning design, AI integration, emerging technology, professional learning, and production.

Operating at the intersection of learning science, educational design, artificial intelligence, and digital innovation, the Director translates emerging developments into practical strategies, standards, and learning experiences that strengthen learner outcomes and organizational capability.

How you will make an impact

Learning Design, Pathways & Assessment

• Lead the human-centred design and continuous improvement of learning experiences across TVO’s education portfolio, ensuring they are inclusive, accessible, pedagogically grounded, and responsive to changing learner needs.
• Establish and maintain shared learning design principles, standards, and frameworks that guide how educational experiences are conceived, developed, evaluated, and improved across programs and platforms.
• Work in close partnership with the Director, Curriculum & Course Production, Director, Content Engagement, and Director, Academic Services to strengthen learner journeys, pathways, engagement, and educational outcomes.
• Lead the continuous review and modernization of assessment and evaluation practices across TVO Education, responding to developments in AI, academic integrity, learner evidence, and emerging approaches to teaching and learning.
• Establish processes for regularly evaluating learning design standards, assessment approaches, and learner journeys, using research, learner feedback, outcomes data, prototyping, and testing to guide continuous improvement.
• Examine how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping curriculum, instruction, assessment, learner supports, credentialing, and progression, and translate those developments into practical opportunities for TVO.
• Embed collaborative design practices that centre diverse perspectives, lived experiences, accessibility, and learner needs.

AI Strategy, Emerging Technology & Professional Learning

• Develop and lead TVO Education’s AI in Education strategy, guiding principles, and implementation roadmap.
• Establish responsible, ethical, equitable, accessible, and learner-centred approaches to integrating AI into educational experiences, services, and internal workflows.
• Work closely with the Vice President, Education, the Chief Technology Officer, and technology teams to align AI and educational priorities with platform development, system integration, technology roadmaps, data governance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies, tools, platforms, and practices that can advance TVO’s educational mission and improve learning experiences.
• Provide timely advice to Education leaders on the educational opportunities, risks, and implications of AI and other disruptive technologies.
• Develop and implement a professional learning strategy that builds AI literacy, digital fluency, instructional capability, and confidence across the Education division.
• Create learning experiences, communities of practice, guidance, and resources that help employees use emerging technologies effectively, critically, creatively, and responsibly.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning that enables teams to navigate educational and technological change.
• Contribute expertise to the development of AI literacy and fluency initiatives for educators, learners, and families in collaboration with the