Permanence-Track Learning Specialist, Ancillary Academic Staff I in the Field of Simulation Learning
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Posting Number:
002634AAS-2025-NUR
Deadline Date:
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 23:45
The University of Windsor’s Faculty of Nursing seeks applications for for a Permanenct-track Learning Specialist, Ancillary Academic Staff I, commencing as early as January 1, 2026. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience.
This hire aligns with the bold imperatives of the University of Windsor strategic plan, Aspire: Together for Tomorrow, ratified Spring 2023. The University embraces a people-first philosophy grounded in a culture of academic excellence and deep belonging. Among key strategic priorities are advancing the journey towards truth and reconciliation; building a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive university; ensuring a high-quality teaching, learning, and student experience; engaging in impactful research, scholarship, and creative activity; fostering a safe, welcoming, and sustainable campus; and engaging in local and global partnerships. The University has already made significant strides on many of these key files, and we are seeking applicants interested in working alongside us to advance them even further. Driven by the University’s commitment to anti-racism, the Black Scholars Institute was established in 2023 supported by a historic cohort hiring initiative that has brought thirteen Black scholars to UWindsor across several of our faculties. The recent cohort of new faculty joining the University (over 50) is among the most diverse in our history.
In pursuit of the University's commitment to employment equity, members from the designated groups (women, Indigenous/Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) persons, racialized persons/visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity) are encouraged to apply and to self-identify.
For an accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Faculty Recruitment Coordinator (recruit@uwindsor.ca). Should you require further information on accommodation, please visit the website of the Office of Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Mediation (**http://www.uwindsor.ca/ohrcrm**).Our campus is situated on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations: the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We are making steady progress on the Indigenization of academic programming, an Indigenous Strategic plan, and a cohort hire of Indigenous faculty in 2018-19 followed by additional hiring. Our students mirror the extraordinary cultural richness of our region, one of the most diverse in all of Canada. And we have strong global partnerships and commitments, which are reflected in the increasing number of graduate and undergraduate students we attract from across the world. The University is a signatory to the Scarborough Charter and participates in the Federal 50/30 Challenge.
The University of Windsor is a Canadian public, comprehensive research university enrolling 15,676 students, including 4,709 graduate students. It offers more than 280 academic programs and certificates, including 70 master’s and doctoral degrees across its nine faculties: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Business; Education; Engineering; Graduate Studies; Human Kinetics; Law; Nursing; and Science. It also houses a medical program through the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. Tenured and tenure-track faculty number about 600.
Graduates from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor are highly respected professionals both locally and globally. We continually strive to build on our strengths to create and maintain teaching excellence within a research-intensive environment. Since 2001, the Faculty of Nursing has partnered with the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology in Windsor, Chatham (St. Clair College) and Sarnia (Lambton College) to deliver a collaborative nursing program (BScN). The MScN and MN graduate programs offer education to students interested in the fields of leadership and advanced clinical practice, including the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program. Our expanded graduate offerings include a PhD in Nursing. The Ontario Internationally Educated Nurses competency-bridging program of study is offered as part of a consortium. Consideration of potential new programs, such a compressed BScN, are underway. For further details about the Faculty of Nursing, visit our website at http://www.uwindsor.ca/nursing.
The incumbent for this position will be responsible for preparing and administering the experiential and simulated laboratory programs for undergraduate and graduate nursing students, as well as those geared towards other groups of learners such as nurses, physicians, and medical students. The incumbent will have the responsibility to teach diverse student populations within the Faculty of Nursing. The successful candidate will report to the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and will work closely with other faculty and staff members in the Faculty.
The successful candidate will have: current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario; a graduate degree in Nursing; at least five years of clinical and/or nursing teaching experience, which includes supervision and teaching of others; experience with mentorship of colleagues; three to five years experience working in a simulation lab and operation simulation equipment; expertise in clinical education and clinical practicum education needs of students and sessional instructors; experience in and a commitment to the teaching of undergraduate nursing courses; excellent oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills; demonstrated administration and leadership skills; excellent organization skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple priorities and demands, and the ability to work effectively with students, instructors, faculty, staff and external partners/stakeholders in a professional, pleasant, and supportive manner.
Compensation:
The salary range for the rank is outlined in Article A Table A.1 of the current Collective Agreement with the Windsor University Faculty Association. The compensation offered to the successful candidate will take into consideration the existing salary structure. A full range of benefits including a pension plan and medical benefits are available to the successful candidate.
Application Requirements
- a letter of application, including a statement confirming eligibility to work in Canada;
- a curriculum vitae;
- a Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario or other Canadian jurisdiction (or evidence of the status of application for registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario);
- a statement of commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (up to 1 page);
- a teaching dossier or portfolio demonstrating potential for or evidence of teaching effectiveness and excellence that will include sample course syllabi/outlines, teaching evaluations, and a statement of teaching philosophy and interests (resources and templates for completing a teaching dossier can be found at https://www.uwindsor.ca/ctl/502/teaching-dossiers);
- documentation of graduate degree; and
- three (3) contacts for references. These referees will be contacted only for shortlisted candidates.
The short-listed candidates may be invited to provide further information in support of their applications. To ensure full consideration, complete an online application (http://www.uwindsor.ca/facultypositions) found on the job advertisement by September 9, 2025. Applications may be considered after the deadline date; however, acceptance of late submissions is at the discretion of the appointments committee.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
When completing the online application, please reference
Position Number: # 002634AAS-2025-NUR
Any questions may be sent to:
Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine, Dean, Faculty of Nursing
519-253-3000, ext. 2259, Email: joyl@uwindsor.ca
Classification:
Learning Specialist - AAS
Faculty:
Faculty of Nursing
About University of Windsor
The University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-focused university, with more than 15,000 students enrolled in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs including several professional schools such as:
Law Business Engineering Education Nursing Human Kinetics Social Work
We have strong student-faculty relationships, exceptional award-winning faculty and innovative staff. It creates a unifying atmosphere of excellence across all of our faculties to encourage lifelong learning, teaching, research and discovery.
The University of Windsor also ushered in a new era in September 2015 with the opening of classes at the first phase of its downtown campus in the heart of Windsor’s core. The new building—which retains the historic facade of the former Windsor Star newspaper building—houses the School of Social Work and the Centre for Executive and Professional Education.
The second phase of the downtown campus—now under construction—will include the School of Creative Arts, which will be located in the century-old site of the Windsor Armouries and an adjacent, new building.
The University of Windsor is located next to North America’s busiest international border crossing and looks out on one of Canada’s most beautiful waterfronts on the Detroit River. Windsor is also Canada’s southernmost city and has some of the country’s best weather.
This location speaks to UWindsor’s strength as an internationally oriented, multi-disciplined institution that actively enables a broad diversity of students, faculty and staff to make a better world through education, scholarship, research and engagement.
Its basic characteristics of openness, warmth, and support make the University of Windsor an exceptionally welcoming community for students and faculty from Asia, Europe and Africa—or from just down the street.
Permanence-Track Learning Specialist, Ancillary Academic Staff I in the Field of Simulation Learning
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Posting Number:
002634AAS-2025-NUR
Deadline Date:
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - 23:45
The University of Windsor’s Faculty of Nursing seeks applications for for a Permanenct-track Learning Specialist, Ancillary Academic Staff I, commencing as early as January 1, 2026. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience.
This hire aligns with the bold imperatives of the University of Windsor strategic plan, Aspire: Together for Tomorrow, ratified Spring 2023. The University embraces a people-first philosophy grounded in a culture of academic excellence and deep belonging. Among key strategic priorities are advancing the journey towards truth and reconciliation; building a just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive university; ensuring a high-quality teaching, learning, and student experience; engaging in impactful research, scholarship, and creative activity; fostering a safe, welcoming, and sustainable campus; and engaging in local and global partnerships. The University has already made significant strides on many of these key files, and we are seeking applicants interested in working alongside us to advance them even further. Driven by the University’s commitment to anti-racism, the Black Scholars Institute was established in 2023 supported by a historic cohort hiring initiative that has brought thirteen Black scholars to UWindsor across several of our faculties. The recent cohort of new faculty joining the University (over 50) is among the most diverse in our history.
In pursuit of the University's commitment to employment equity, members from the designated groups (women, Indigenous/Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) persons, racialized persons/visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity) are encouraged to apply and to self-identify.
For an accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Faculty Recruitment Coordinator (recruit@uwindsor.ca). Should you require further information on accommodation, please visit the website of the Office of Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Mediation (**http://www.uwindsor.ca/ohrcrm**).Our campus is situated on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations: the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We are making steady progress on the Indigenization of academic programming, an Indigenous Strategic plan, and a cohort hire of Indigenous faculty in 2018-19 followed by additional hiring. Our students mirror the extraordinary cultural richness of our region, one of the most diverse in all of Canada. And we have strong global partnerships and commitments, which are reflected in the increasing number of graduate and undergraduate students we attract from across the world. The University is a signatory to the Scarborough Charter and participates in the Federal 50/30 Challenge.
The University of Windsor is a Canadian public, comprehensive research university enrolling 15,676 students, including 4,709 graduate students. It offers more than 280 academic programs and certificates, including 70 master’s and doctoral degrees across its nine faculties: Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Business; Education; Engineering; Graduate Studies; Human Kinetics; Law; Nursing; and Science. It also houses a medical program through the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. Tenured and tenure-track faculty number about 600.
Graduates from the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor are highly respected professionals both locally and globally. We continually strive to build on our strengths to create and maintain teaching excellence within a research-intensive environment. Since 2001, the Faculty of Nursing has partnered with the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology in Windsor, Chatham (St. Clair College) and Sarnia (Lambton College) to deliver a collaborative nursing program (BScN). The MScN and MN graduate programs offer education to students interested in the fields of leadership and advanced clinical practice, including the Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program. Our expanded graduate offerings include a PhD in Nursing. The Ontario Internationally Educated Nurses competency-bridging program of study is offered as part of a consortium. Consideration of potential new programs, such a compressed BScN, are underway. For further details about the Faculty of Nursing, visit our website at http://www.uwindsor.ca/nursing.
The incumbent for this position will be responsible for preparing and administering the experiential and simulated laboratory programs for undergraduate and graduate nursing students, as well as those geared towards other groups of learners such as nurses, physicians, and medical students. The incumbent will have the responsibility to teach diverse student populations within the Faculty of Nursing. The successful candidate will report to the Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and will work closely with other faculty and staff members in the Faculty.
The successful candidate will have: current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario; a graduate degree in Nursing; at least five years of clinical and/or nursing teaching experience, which includes supervision and teaching of others; experience with mentorship of colleagues; three to five years experience working in a simulation lab and operation simulation equipment; expertise in clinical education and clinical practicum education needs of students and sessional instructors; experience in and a commitment to the teaching of undergraduate nursing courses; excellent oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills; demonstrated administration and leadership skills; excellent organization skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple priorities and demands, and the ability to work effectively with students, instructors, faculty, staff and external partners/stakeholders in a professional, pleasant, and supportive manner.
Compensation:
The salary range for the rank is outlined in Article A Table A.1 of the current Collective Agreement with the Windsor University Faculty Association. The compensation offered to the successful candidate will take into consideration the existing salary structure. A full range of benefits including a pension plan and medical benefits are available to the successful candidate.
Application Requirements
- a letter of application, including a statement confirming eligibility to work in Canada;
- a curriculum vitae;
- a Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario or other Canadian jurisdiction (or evidence of the status of application for registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario);
- a statement of commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (up to 1 page);
- a teaching dossier or portfolio demonstrating potential for or evidence of teaching effectiveness and excellence that will include sample course syllabi/outlines, teaching evaluations, and a statement of teaching philosophy and interests (resources and templates for completing a teaching dossier can be found at https://www.uwindsor.ca/ctl/502/teaching-dossiers);
- documentation of graduate degree; and
- three (3) contacts for references. These referees will be contacted only for shortlisted candidates.
The short-listed candidates may be invited to provide further information in support of their applications. To ensure full consideration, complete an online application (http://www.uwindsor.ca/facultypositions) found on the job advertisement by September 9, 2025. Applications may be considered after the deadline date; however, acceptance of late submissions is at the discretion of the appointments committee.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.
When completing the online application, please reference
Position Number: # 002634AAS-2025-NUR
Any questions may be sent to:
Dr. Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine, Dean, Faculty of Nursing
519-253-3000, ext. 2259, Email: joyl@uwindsor.ca
Classification:
Learning Specialist - AAS
Faculty:
Faculty of Nursing
About University of Windsor
The University of Windsor is a comprehensive, student-focused university, with more than 15,000 students enrolled in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs including several professional schools such as:
Law Business Engineering Education Nursing Human Kinetics Social Work
We have strong student-faculty relationships, exceptional award-winning faculty and innovative staff. It creates a unifying atmosphere of excellence across all of our faculties to encourage lifelong learning, teaching, research and discovery.
The University of Windsor also ushered in a new era in September 2015 with the opening of classes at the first phase of its downtown campus in the heart of Windsor’s core. The new building—which retains the historic facade of the former Windsor Star newspaper building—houses the School of Social Work and the Centre for Executive and Professional Education.
The second phase of the downtown campus—now under construction—will include the School of Creative Arts, which will be located in the century-old site of the Windsor Armouries and an adjacent, new building.
The University of Windsor is located next to North America’s busiest international border crossing and looks out on one of Canada’s most beautiful waterfronts on the Detroit River. Windsor is also Canada’s southernmost city and has some of the country’s best weather.
This location speaks to UWindsor’s strength as an internationally oriented, multi-disciplined institution that actively enables a broad diversity of students, faculty and staff to make a better world through education, scholarship, research and engagement.
Its basic characteristics of openness, warmth, and support make the University of Windsor an exceptionally welcoming community for students and faculty from Asia, Europe and Africa—or from just down the street.