Elite Domo Academy is seeking an experienced Senior Learning Architect – Curriculum & Competency Development to lead the design of the educational framework for a recent professional training academy dedicated to careers within private households.

Working closely with Elite Domo leadership and industry subject-matter experts, the Learning Architect will translate extensive professional and employer knowledge into a structured, competency-based learning system.

The mandate will encompass the development of the Academy's competency framework, curriculum architecture, learning experience, assessment methodology, practical training model, and certification framework.

This is a strategic educational design mandate rather than primarily a course-development position. The successful candidate will establish the pedagogical foundation upon which individual programs, courses, learning materials, and professional pathways can subsequently be developed.

The ideal candidate brings senior-level expertise in learning architecture, competency-based education, adult learning, curriculum development, assessment design, and professional or vocational education.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Learning Strategy & Architecture

- Lead the development of the overall learning architecture for Elite Domo Academy.
- Translate the Academy's vision, industry expertise, and employer expectations into a coherent educational model.
- Establish pedagogical principles and standards to guide future curriculum and course development.
- Define appropriate learning pathways for entry-level, experienced, and management-level professionals.
- Ensure the educational architecture is modular, scalable, measurable, and adaptable to future programs.

Competency Framework Development

- Develop a comprehensive competency framework defining the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and professional standards expected of graduates.
- Establish core, behavioural, technical, and leadership competency categories.
- Define proficiency levels and observable indicators for each competency.
- Translate professional expectations such as discretion, judgment, anticipation, adaptability, service orientation, and professionalism into measurable competencies.
- Establish clear connections between competencies, learning outcomes, instructional activities, and assessments.
- Design the overall curriculum structure, including learning domains, modules, sequencing, prerequisites, and progression.
- Develop measurable learning objectives and outcomes aligned with the competency framework.
- Recommend appropriate instructional hours and allocation between theoretical, experiential, and practical learning.
- Create a framework that supports both foundational learning and role-specific professional pathways.
- Establish curriculum-development standards that can be applied consistently as additional programs are introduced.

Learning Experience Design

- Design an engaging adult-learning experience appropriate for highly practical, service-oriented professions.
- Recommend appropriate combinations of instructor-led learning, demonstrations, simulations, case studies, role-playing, guided practice, and independent learning.
- Incorporate realistic private household scenarios into the learning methodology.




- Develop an educational progression that moves learners from knowledge acquisition through practice to demonstrated professional competence.
- Ensure that behavioural and interpersonal competencies are embedded throughout the learning experience rather than treated exclusively as theoretical subjects.

Assessment & Competency Validation

- Develop a comprehensive competency-based assessment strategy.
- Recommend appropriate knowledge, practical, behavioural, and scenario-based assessment methodologies.
- Design assessment criteria, observation frameworks, scoring methodologies, and evaluation rubrics.
- Establish standards for determining successful demonstration of competence.
- Develop mechanisms to support consistency, objectivity, and quality assurance between instructors and assessors.
- Recommend appropriate capstone or final competency assessments.

Practical & Experiential Learning

- Design a framework for supervised practical training within appropriate residential or simulated household environments.
- Establish learning objectives and competency requirements for practical placements.
- Define supervisor and assessor responsibilities.
- Develop processes for observation, learner feedback, documentation, and evaluation.
- Ensure practical experience is formally integrated into the curriculum and certification requirements.

Certification & Quality Assurance

- Advise on the development of a credible certification and credentialing framework.
- Recommend program completion and competency requirements.
- Explore appropriate certification levels, continuing education requirements, and potential recertification models.
- Establish educational quality-assurance principles and processes.
- Provide guidance regarding potential external recognition, educational partnerships, accreditation, or other forms of validation.
- Ensure the framework can support the Academy's longer-term objective of establishing recognized professional standards within the private household sector.

Research & Collaboration

- Conduct research into relevant competency-based, vocational, skilled, hospitality, and experiential education models.
- Facilitate discovery sessions with Elite Domo leadership and industry subject-matter experts.
- Extract and organize tacit industry knowledge into teachable and measurable competencies.
- Challenge assumptions and provide evidence-based recommendations regarding learning design and educational methodology.
- Collaborate with future instructional designers, instructors, subject-matter experts, and educational partners.

INITIAL DELIVERABLES

The initial phase of the mandate is expected to include:
- Competency Framework
- Curriculum Framework and Program Structure
- Learning Experience Framework
- Assessment and Competency Validation Framework
- Practical Training Framework
- Certification and Quality Assurance Framework




- Recommendations for an Initial Pilot Program
- Phased Curriculum Development and Implementation Roadmap

Detailed course and instructional material development may follow as a subsequent phase of the project.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

- Significant professional experience in learning architecture, curriculum design, instructional design, or learning experience design.
- Demonstrated experience designing competency-based educational or professional development programs.
- Strong knowledge of adult-learning principles and contemporary instructional methodologies.
- Experience developing competency frameworks, learning outcomes, curriculum maps, and assessment strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to design practical, experiential, or workplace-based learning.
- Experience developing assessment rubrics and competency-validation methodologies.
- Understanding of certification, credentialing, vocational education, professional education, or educational quality assurance.
- Experience working with subject-matter experts to convert professional expertise into structured learning.
- Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and project-management capabilities.
- Graduate-level education in education, instructional design, educational technology, adult education, organizational learning, or a related discipline is considered an asset.

PREFERRED BACKGROUND

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be particularly valuable:
- Competency-based education
- Vocational or skilled education
- Hospitality or luxury hospitality education
- Workplace and experiential learning
- Professional certification programs
- Credentialing and assessment
- Continuing professional education
- Educational program development or academic governance

Previous experience within the private household sector is not required. Elite Domo will provide industry expertise and access to subject-matter experts.

KEY ATTRIBUTES

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

- Strategic and systems-level thinking
- Strong pedagogical judgment
- Ability to structure complex professional knowledge
- High standards of educational rigor
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder-management skills
- Strong written communication and documentation abilities
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Practical rather than purely theoretical approach to learning design
- Comfort developing educational frameworks in an emerging professional field

ABOUT ELITE DOMO ACADEMY

Elite Domo Academy is being developed as a professional education and training initiative dedicated to preparing individuals for careers within private households and advancing the competencies of experienced professionals already working in the sector.

The Academy's objective is to combine technical education with the professional behaviours essential to successful private household service, including discretion, judgment, adaptability, anticipation, communication, and service excellence.

Building upon Elite Domo's two decades of experience recruiting professionals for private households across Canada and internationally, the Academy aims to contribute to the development of stronger and more consistent skilled standards within the sector.

📌 Senior Learning Architect – Curriculum & Competency Development (Montreal)
🏢 Elite Domo
📍 Montreal