Ville : Ottawa

Catégorie : Contract

Industrie : Education

Employeur : Université d’Ottawa

The University of Ottawa—A crossroads of cultures and ideas

The University of Ottawa is home to a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We believe in the power of representation, and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective. Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities. 

We are one of Canada’s top 10 research universities—our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today’s challenges. One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe. Our employees come together around the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place. Everyone's contributions are valued, we all play a part in making uOttawa a world-class institution. Most importantly, we make it possible for you to achieve your full potential. Because at uOttawa, you belong!

About the Faculty of Medicine
Welcome to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada. Our learners have access to state-of-the art facilities and specialized institutions as they learn alongside world-class physicians and scientists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 medical schools in Canada, our faculty is among the top faculties of medicine in the world for research impact in biomedical and health sciences.

Position purpose:
Reporting to the Project Manager, The Communications Technology Specialist, a key member of our Project Management Team, will be responsible for digital development of e-Learning, the development and support of innovation applications, and other print and electronic media resources. They are responsible for producing a wide variety of online media and pedagogical documents using different techniques, software applications and equipment. The specialist is the key responsible party for technical operations related to all departmental communication materials. 
 

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Production Support: Produces, films and edits video, audio and photographic content to be used as website content, event promotion, podcasting, and online learning modules. Responsible for the set up and operation of a variety of production equipment such as edit suite, digital cameras, sound booth, microphones, or voice recorders. Produces closed captioning and transcripts for multimedia products. 
• Business Analysis: Gathers and evaluates the business and operational requirements of client requests, to recommend the procedures, implementation, development and improvements deemed necessary with regards to digital media strategy for online teaching and learning, branding, marketing and user interfaces. Assists in location scouting and permissions. Setup and capture of footage, including lighting and audio capture. Knowledge of social media and web technologies and maintenance an asset.
• Content Management. Responsible for posting videos to social media channels such as YouTube and Facebook. Updating and maintaining department websites as needed. Communicates with clients, where applicable, regrading the production and delivery of content.
• Risk Assessment. Anticipate risks and issues in plans and requirements and work in collaboration with internal team as well as clients in order to take appropriate action to mitigate and resolve them. Ensures that solutions implemented are fully tested, functional, and accurate.
• Client Service: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project.. Main point of contact for inquiries, schedule and secure locations as needed and inform key stakeholders about services, methods and regulations specific to the department’s media lab.
• Design: Produces, develops and implements motion (animation) graphic design concepts to be included in e-learning modules or other communication collateral (i.e., different types of presentation and/or promotional resources such as PDF documents, eBooks, videos, exhibition panels, information & photo booths and display cases, etc.). Provides a full range of communication design services, including professional photographic, audio and video editing services.
   

What you will bring:

• Certificate or Diploma in Multimedia, Visual Communications, Graphic Design or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years of experience in communications or media design role. 
• Expert use of video and audio production hardware equipment including cameras, lighting, microphone, speakers, etc.
• Expert knowledge of video and audio production and editing software suites such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Camtasia, SquadCast, Premier Pro, etc.
• Knowledge of and experience in e-learning with UI/UX learner-centred design practices as they apply to design, development and review of online learning environments.
• Working knowledge of website management.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices.
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• Experience in troubleshooting and repairing programs.
• Knowledge of marketing and online communications focused on online tools and services.
• Knowledge of e-learning technical solutions.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team environment involving colleagues both in and outside the service.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines while working autonomously.
• Ability to occasionally work outside of normal office hours. 
• Ability to regularly travel (and access to a vehicle) in and around the Ottawa area with media equipment.
• Ability to communicate in both official languages. 

Bilingualism: French and English (spoken and written); to be considered for this position, candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
 

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.