Position Title: Curriculum Specialist, Secondary Geography (12-Month Contract)

Salary Range: $89,921.90 - $95,729.41

Division: Digital learning

Reports To: Manager, Curriculum

Location: Toronto, Yonge & Eglinton (Hybrid Work: 3 days in Office)

TVO Media Education Group (TVO) is a social impact organization 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.

A Culture of Inclusion and Belonging

We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to TVO. We have a diverse workforce and are committed to building a culture within the workplace that brings out the best in everyone. As part of our strategic vision, we have adopted five core values; we embrace change, we value bold thinking, we thrive with diverse voices, we are better together, and we honour our commitments. These values anchor how we work and lay the foundation for a workplace that celebrates differences, encourages self-expression and empowers learning, which we know is a key component to our success.

Who We Are

TVO is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education. Through our brands, TVO Kids, TVO Today, TVO ILC and TVO Learn, we provide multi-platform educational programming; ground-breaking original documentaries; in-depth public affairs content; the largest online secondary school in Ontario; and award-winning digital-learning resources that support Ontario’s curriculum.

TVO is a registered charity funded primarily by the Province of Ontario and supported by thousands of sponsors and donors.

The Opportunity

TVO is looking for Secondary Curriculum Specialist in the subject area of Geography who are available to begin as soon as possible.

The Curriculum Specialist will apply a proven understanding of transferable skills, deep knowledge of curriculum expectations for deep learning and best practices in student-centered online learning to guide and inform the creation and review of online learning courses for TVO. Your work will entail meeting the provincial standard for curriculum expectations in senior geography, through the development, creation, and review of learning activities in online formats.

How you will make an impact

• Mentor, coach and build staff capacity to build cutting edge pedagogy into courses

• Provide educational expertise in designing, developing, and implementing policies and programs for curriculum and assessment

• Collaborate with staff, teams, and external service providers to build out course design requirements, review geography courses and course components as they are iterated, and assist with user experience testing

• Collaborate with teacher writers to align course pedagogy with active learning and to plan for course interactivity

• Work with a cross-functional team to inform the creation of engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant geography course content that is rooted in cutting edge pedagogy

• Present engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant courses that support learners of diverse backgrounds and ages

• Accountable for course quality to contribute to rates of course completion and student success and ensure that the final product is error-free and reflects the excellence expected in Ontario’s educational landscape

• Follow TVO’s Educational Blueprint in all development activities

• Review, provide feedback on, and in certain cases co-author course content and related

  documentation, in keeping with TVO's quality and time requirements

• Build team capacity through pedagogical leadership to serve a diverse learner population

• Inform and review the creation of course content and digital learning activities

• Analyze and interpret data sets for provincial, national, and international student success

  (e.g. EQAO, TIMSS, PISA) to inform development of secondary content in all subject areas.

• Support testing of educational content with learner groups

As required, performs the following tasks:

• Performs other directly related duties.
• Communicate progress and opportunities throughout the life of a project

What you will bring to TVO

• Bachelor of Education, intermediate/senior in subject areas of Geography with additional education or training in a related field (Master of Education an asset)

• Must be OCT certified

• 5+ years of classroom experience

• preference will be given to bilingual candidates

• Proven ability and experience designing appropriate, accessible, and engaging online educational content for online learning environments

• Ability to develop online learning modules

• Experience implementing Ministry of Education policy and program requirements, e.g.

  Transferable Skills, Growing Success, and Achieving Excellence

• Understanding of how to build effective and authentic assessment for learning activities

• Experience with projects where digital assets were created

• Strong time management, analytical and interpersonal skills required, along with a high degree of attention to detail

• Excellent grammar, verbal and written communication skills required, including experience in presenting to all levels of leadership

• You live our values: we value bold thinking, we embrace change, we thrive with diverse voices, we honour our commitments, we're better together

TVO & YOU

We are a learning organization. Learning is at the core of everything we do. As part of this commitment, TVO invests in the learning goals of our employees and everyone at TVO commits to developing our own knowledge as well as elevating each other’s through peer-to-peer learning, workshops and lunch and learns. All employees have the option to join the Public Service Pension Plan right on day one and we offer an array of services through our Employee and Family Assistance Plan.

We would be thrilled to have you join us. We’re a tight-knit community – whether you’re a recent graduate or further along in your career, you will get to meet, work with, and be supported by talented and diverse colleagues at all levels. Maybe you’ll even get to meet Polkaroo!

Come build with us.

Find and follow us on: LinkedIn (@tvontario), and X (@TVO).

We invite you to submit your application by August 5, 2025 at 5 pm. Not sure you have everything we’re asking for, but know you can make a big impact? Tell us your story and we will be happy to consider you.

To learn more about us and our culture, please visit us at https://tvo.me/work-with-us/ .

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process (e.g., including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms). If you are seeking accommodations during the application or interview process, please advise us as soon as possible so that appropriate arrangements can be made by sending your request to accommodations@tvo.org.