Director of Regulatory Innovation – Integration

🔥 11 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $102k - $131k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚔 Compliance

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World Education Services

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1974

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Social Impact

World Education Services is a nonpartisan social enterprise that provides widely accepted international credential evaluation services to help students, professionals, immigrants, and refugees have their foreign education recognized in the United States and Canada. WES offers credential assessment reports (including ECAs for Canadian immigration), digital tools like iGPA and AccessWES, research and policy work, and social impact programs and philanthropy aimed at improving economic inclusion and workforce pathways for newcomers.

📋 Description

• Set the strategic direction for Pan-Canadian harmonization of registration, licensure best practices, and labour market integration • Work with regulatory bodies and national assessment institutions to advance licensing and regulatory reforms • Identify and scale promising bridging initiatives and alternative occupational registration practices • Advance competency-based credential recognition through innovative and fair registration processes • Provide strategic oversight of initiatives across policy, advocacy, and organizational priorities • Lead engagement with Fairness Commissioners and equivalent provincial fair registration frameworks • Lead research on licensing reform best practices and convene stakeholders for local and regional input • Oversee strategies and sector partnerships supporting federal, provincial, municipal, and sectoral advocacy • Integrate regulatory and labour market intelligence into policy and strategy • Represent WES at conferences, consultations, and in media • Lead cross-functional collaboration and external contributors • Develop multi-year learning, monitoring, and evaluation plans • Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary team • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, supportive, innovative, results-oriented, and accountable team culture

🎯 Requirements

• 10 years of experience at the intersection of occupational licensing regulation and labour market integration in Canada • Graduate degree / certification in occupational regulation, public administration / policy, law, social sciences, or a related field—or an equivalent combination of education and professional or lived experience • Strong familiarity with jurisdictional Fair Registration practices, the Regulated Health Professions Act, and regulatory modernization debates across professions and compulsory trades • Experience building and leading multi-stakeholder coalitions across government, regulators, employers, and business / industry associations • 5+ years of experience leading or managing a team • Proven track record leading system change work and engaging key stakeholders toward desired outcomes • Senior people leadership experience, including managing policy teams, budgets, and complex external partnerships • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Strong analytical and research skills • Demonstrated strategic thinking and systems thinking skills • Excellent relationship-building and interpersonal skills across stakeholders and cultures • Ability to work in ambiguous, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environments • Ability to mobilize knowledge and proactively share relevant insights • Experience representing an organization externally or supporting public-facing engagements • Strong program management skills, organizational awareness, and sound judgment • Alignment with WES’s mission, impact goals, and commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity • Intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and proactive mindset • Fluency in both French and English is an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options and flexible scheduling • Generous time-off policies • Comprehensive wellness programs • Comprehensive benefits • Tangible rewards and recognition • Learning opportunities and pathways for personal and professional development • Comprehensive training programs • Tuition reimbursement opportunities • Career advancement opportunities • Employee-led resource groups • Town halls and collaborative team events • Meaningful volunteer opportunities • Inclusive, mission-driven, employee-centric workplace • Accommodation support during the recruitment process