As Ontario’s regulator of more than 110,000 real estate agents and brokerages (often referred to as registrants), RECO administers and enforces the law that regulates trading in real estate in Ontario and enhances consumer confidence in the real estate services sector. RECO’s commitment to pursuing trust in every transaction means consumers can navigate the real estate market with confidence.

A up-to-date regulator with approximately 180 employees, RECO is a collegial and energetic environment where strategic agility, curiosity and empathy are valued.

Hybrid work environment

RECO has a ‘hybrid’ environment, which typically includes a minimum attendance in the office of two days per week, with some teams/positions requiring more frequent in-office attendance.

RECO’s commitment to diversity and inclusion: They aren’t just words to us

RECO is committed to promoting an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment that includes awareness, education, and engagement-building opportunities for all employees.

The role

Reporting to the Chief Strategy & Corporate Officer, the Director, Education & Professional Standards has enterprise functional accountability for the strategy, transformation, governance and performance of RECO's education and professional standards framework.

The Director leads the development, implementation and continuous evolution of RECO's education strategy and modernization agenda, strengthening registrant competence across the lifecycle through education, assessment, mentorship, continuing competence and remediation. The role works across regulatory functions to ensure education supports consumer protection,



regulatory effectiveness and professional standards and translates regulatory priorities and emerging risks into education and competency requirements.

The Director is accountable for both the transformation and operation of RECO's education portfolio, including registration education, continuing education, examinations and assessments, instructional design, learner services, provider oversight and education operations. The role establishes priorities, operating models, performance expectations, investment requirements and governance approaches.

Position responsibilities

Education Strategy, Transformation & Professional Standards Leadership

- Leads the development, implementation and continuous evolution of RECO's education strategy and translates strategic direction enterprise and regulatory priorities into portfolio strategy, operating models, priorities, roadmaps, performance measures and investment requirements.
- Establishes the strategic direction and multi-year priorities for RECO's education and professional standards portfolio within the broader organizational and regulatory strategy.
- Leads the transformation of RECO's education model from an entry-focused system to a connected lifecycle approach to readiness for practice, professional competence and continuous learning.
- Provides strategic leadership for initiatives related to competency frameworks, assessment, mentorship and early-practice support, continuing competence, remediation,



graduated licensing and other future-state reforms.
- Determines and recommends changes to education models, competency requirements, assessment approaches, delivery models and supporting infrastructure based on regulatory outcomes, evidence and emerging risks.
- Ensures education, assessment and professional standards support RECO's consumer protection mandate, regulatory priorities and strategic plan.
- Provides strategic advice to executive leadership, the Registrar and governance bodies on education, competence and professional standards matters, including strategic options, regulatory impacts, risks, resource implications and recommended courses of action.
- Provides authoritative functional advice on education and competency matters and influences enterprise and regulatory decisions where registrant competence is a material consideration.
- Represents RECO with regulators, delegated administrative authorities, post-secondary institutions and sector stakeholders and has authority to advance RECO's education and professional standards priorities within those relationships.
- Identifies emerging issues, risks and opportunities affecting registrant competence and recommends enterprise or regulatory responses where appropriate.

Education & Competency Framework

- Has accountability for RECO's education and competency framework across pre-registration, post-registration, the Broker Program, continuing education, examinations, assessments and remediation.
- Defines and maintains competency, ethics, conduct, assessment and readiness-for-practice expectations within approved legislative, regulatory and governance parameters.
- Establishes enterprise-wide

📌 Director, Education (Toronto)
🏢 Real Estate Council of Ontario
📍 Toronto