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Start Date: July 1, 2025

End Date: June 30, 2026

Commitment: Coach up to 5 coachees over the course of contract period

Location: Remote, with one possible in-person group session in Toronto, ON

Stipend Amount: $825 per coachee

Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Faculty Development Coach for our New and Evolving Academic Leaders Program (NEAL), our advanced leadership program. NEAL is a year-long program for people in health sciences who are involved in formal leadership or otherwise influencing system change, based on a model that centres use of self and inclusive leadership practices. The coach will facilitate learning and support participants in developing their identity as leaders and change agents in their spheres of influence.

Context:
NEAL coaches each support four or five learners to provide a space for individual meaning making and evolution within a transformative, intensive program. Coaches have access to frequent dialogue and support with the Program Lead and with other coaches, to share insights about cohort needs and emerging ideas, and to evolve coaching practice. For each of the three group sessions, program co-leads provide context and possible topics for exploration.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide individual virtual coaching with a total of four sessions per coachee (two one-hour sessions between Module 1 and 2, and two one-hour sessions between Module 2 and 3).
• Facilitate three group coaching sessions, one in each NEAL module, with your coachees (one may be in person but largely virtual)
• Independently schedule and conduct individual coaching sessions
• Offer consultation to the NEAL Program Lead to refine and improve the program.
• Participate in group discussion with other coaches and NEAL program lead after each module.
• Optional: attend the final learning presentations.

Qualifications
• Experience with leadership in health sciences, and proven track record working with health professionals or within healthcare, community health, or related settings.
• Coaching training or experience that supports and guides experienced leaders to develop their next level of confidence and clarity around values and purpose, and facilitates their own exploration of the wide diversity of issues and aspirations that they face.
• Knowledge of and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility principles across academic and health settings.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, using virtual and in-person collaboration.
• Asset: Familiarity with Unity Health and UofT procedures, as well as experience with the NEAL or other CFD programs.

Application Process:
Submit a letter of intent, a short CV and a short outline of your approach to coaching to Lindsay Baker, Associate Director, Centre for Faculty Development, at lindsay.baker@unityhealth.to.

Application Deadline: June 18, 2025

Start Date: July 2025

End Date: June 2026 (1-year renewable contract)

Commitment: Co-develop and co-facilitate 5 virtual group learning sessions per cohort, attend committee meetings

Location: Remote

Stipend Amount: $1,575/year

Position Overview:
We are looking for a Co-Facilitator for the Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) Program for the 2025–2026 academic year. The TLC program is a virtual clinical teaching program designed for current and/or aspiring clinical teachers from all health disciplines who provide teaching directly to learners in a clinical context. The program is open to clinical teachers who have an interest in developing or refreshing their clinical teaching knowledge and skills.

Program Goals:
Participants of the TLC program will:
• Develop the foundational knowledge and skills needed to teach in the clinical context
• Recognize how to be adaptive clinical teachers, responsive to unique contextual and learner needs

The TLC program takes place online over a 12-week period. It includes both self-paced, self-directed e-learning modules and facilitated group learning sessions. Participants must complete all components of the program.

Key Responsibilities:
• Co-develop synchronous group learning sessions (~6 hrs total)
• Co-facilitate synchronous group learning sessions [5 sessions per cohort (9.5 hrs total/year) + ~8 hrs of prep time (e.g., review of modules) total/year]
• Attend bi-annual TLC Committee meetings

Synchronous Session Facilitation Expectations:
• Collaborate with co-facilitators
• Facilitate and encourage dialogue
• Underpin facilitation with principles of equity and inclusion
• Invite and respect different forms/sources/types of expertise and knowledge (e.g., lived experience, theoretical, practical)
• Be flexible and responsive to the needs of the group
• Encourage the generation of new questions, ideas and possibilities

Qualifications:
• Experience facilitating an interprofessional group
• Member of a health profession
• Experience with clinical teaching
• Knowledge of foundational concepts in health professions education
• Experience in faculty development
• Experience facilitating virtual education sessions (Zoom experience an asset)

Application Process:
We are committed to a fair and equitable process. Interested parties must submit a letter of intent outlining their interest in the role, and a short (4-page maximum) CV outlining their relevant experience to Amanda.Binns@unityhealth.to. If there are any accommodations applicants need to submit their letter of intent and CV, please let Amanda.Binns@unityhealth.to know and we would be happy to work with you.

Application Deadline: June 30, 2025

The Resource Hub houses faculty development resources related to multiple topics of interest in health professions education. The hub is meant to be a one stop shop for faculty development resources across professions, and learner contexts.

As a member of the Resource Hub Editorial Committee you will be invited to:

1. Review 1-2 resources a year in your identified area(s) of expertise
2. Review current resources on the hub in your identified area(s) of expertise for continued relevance; and,
3. Recommend ways to improve resource hub – including gaps in content, or ways to (re)organize

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please email Alexandria.Suliman@unityhealth.to.

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