Date Posted: 04/30/2025
Req ID: 42699
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM:Ctr Std Engagemt
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00051990
Description:
About us:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.
Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.
This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
Your opportunity:
The Centre for Student Engagement at the University of Toronto Mississauga is committed to creating inclusive learning environments to cultivate holistic student development. Built through meaningful collaboration and informed by research and assessment our campus & community-based programs, services and resources promote access to post-secondary education, support transition into and retention through university and encourages student engagement and community-engaged learning. With over 90 opportunities led by 130 student leaders and professional staff, the Centre for Student Engagement believes that student involvement is a powerful tool to support an individual’s navigation of the post-secondary environment and to feel empowered to contribute and make an impact within their community.
The Community Experience Programmer reporting to the Supervisor, Community Mentorship, will be responsible for the delivery of co-curricular events focused on community engaged learning opportunities. The main responsibilities of this portfolio include the development of the Community Mentorship Academies and Community Day Events. Additionally, this portfoliowill support the recruitment of volunteers, training and retention of volunteers alongside the community engaged learning unit within the Centre for Student Engagement to build a culture of community engagement support for UTM students.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Disseminating program and/or service information
- Implementing operational policies, procedures and best practices for the program
- Fostering cooperative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts
- Directing the activities of casual staff
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Education, Humanities, Social Science of other related discipline
- Minimum three (3) years related experience in student services (combination of professional and para-professional experience is acceptable) with demonstrated experience utilizing Critical Service Learning & Social Change theory, at the post-secondary level or within community organizations
- Exceptional cross-cultural competency awareness; experience working with marginalized groups, diverse communities & cultures and an understanding of anti-oppression and equity practices, are required
- Experience supervising teams of student staff
- Experience representing the University while working directly with external University stakeholders, such as local government, school boards, not-for-profit agencies, non-governmental organizations and other community-based partners is required
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing events with multiple stakeholders.
- Proven leadership and supervisory skills are required
- Strong written and public speaking skills necessary
- Knowledge of anti-oppressions/ equity practices are required
- Excellant organisation, oral and written communication skills and public speaking skills.
- Proven ability to be creative and innovative in the development and maintenance of programs
- Proven ability to create and manage partnerships internal to the University and external within the community
Assets (Nonessential):
- Experience in an educational environment planning events for youth aged 10-18 is an asset
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Adaptable
- Cooperative
- Multi-tasker
- Organized
- Problem solver
- Team player
Closing Date: 05/08/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 10 -- $70,844. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $90,595. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Jessica Halteh
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.
