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Posting Reason:
New Position
Job Type:
Employee
Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
N/A
Job Family:
Laboratory Support
# of Open Positions:
1
Faculty/Service - Department:
Animal Care and Veterinary Services
Campus:
Roger Guindon Hall
Union Affiliation:
SSUO
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/07/16
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/07/27
Hours per week:
35
Salary Grade:
SSUO Grade 10
Salary Range:
$80,942.00 - $102,245.00
Position Purpose
Reporting to the Manager, Animal Care Training, the incumbent leverages workforce trends, training analytics, and operational priorities to proactively identify learning needs. Through tactical planning, reporting, and collaboration with stakeholders, the incumbent ensures training sessions are delivered as planned to build and sustain the competencies and technical skills required to support high-quality veterinary training programs.
Working with the Manager, Animal Care Training, the incumbent must ensure that all persons working with animals have knowledge of the principles of experimental animal science relevant to their area of work and that personnel have the technical skills required for the procedures they must carry out (by species) to support the research enterprise as well as an appreciation of the regulatory and ethical issues of using animals for scientific purposes in Canada.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
- Leads strategic tactical planning of animal care and veterinary training programs, aligning training delivery with operational priorities, research demands, regulatory requirements, and capacity forecasts.
- Oversees Monitors compliance with training governance, tracking, and reporting, identifies risk areas, and leverages data to support evidence-based decision-making by leadership.
- Prepares and maintains training materials, stakeholder communications, and performance reports.
- Administers and optimizes the Learning Management System (LMS) as a strategic tool, ensuring accurate training records, meaningful reporting, and data integrity to support forecasting and compliance.
- Facilitates train-the-trainer programs to ensure consistent, high-quality onboarding and mandatory training delivery across staff, students, and researchers.
- Collaborates in the development of training materials, including lesson plans, competency assessments, and sign-off documentation.
What you will bring:
- A diploma from a Canadian Veterinary Medical Association recognized Veterinary Technical program, or a combination of a diploma or a degree from a relevant scientific discipline with 5 years of related laboratory animal experience. Alternatively, the incumbent may hold a current RLAT certification with the Canadian Association of Laboratory Animal Science (CALAS or equivalent), with 10 years related laboratory animal experience.
- 3 years’ experience in delivering or coordinating training programs.
- Familiarity with animal care, research, or clinical environments preferred.
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of veterinary technology, laboratory animal care, species specific disease, life cycles and behavior, the application of theory in the academic research environment, with emphasis on animal work in post-graduate university training.
- Knowledge of the statutory and institutional regulatory context of animal use and care.
- Knowledge of the practical training elements necessary to support individual research or teaching projects.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in the development of a training program from conception to delivery and evaluation of the program.
- Ability to effectively communicate concepts and demonstrate technical procedures.
- Bilingualism – English and French (spoken and written).
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 realize 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.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.
If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected 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.
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