Date Posted: 10/29/2025Req ID: 45803Faculty/Division: Vice-Provost, StudentsDepartment: Career CentreCampus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Description:
About Us
Student Life connects life to learning. We believe every student should have the opportunity to participate in university life actively and find connection and community while discovering new ways of thinking and being in the world. We provide resources, support and engagement opportunities that are inclusive and accessible, ensuring every student can build experiences that set them up for a lifetime of success.
Within Student Life, the cluster of Student Life Programs & Services (SLP&S), supports students as they achieve personal, academic, career and civic goals. We engage students throughout their learning and development with the following units: Academic Success, Accessibility Services, Career Exploration & Education, Centre for Community Partnerships, Clubs & Leadership Development, Housing, Indigenous Student Services and First Nations House, Mentorship & Peer Programs, Multi-faith Centre, Orientation, Student Success, Transition & Engagement and TCard Services. Together with staff, faculty, students, alumni, employers and community partners, we provide an integrated and coherent path to success that reflects our students' diversity.
Student Life Programs & Services is committed to the University of Toronto principles of equity, inclusion, and reconciliation and we create diverse, accessible, inclusive and welcoming spaces of opportunity that foster deepened engagement, learning, personal growth, and identity development for all students. We are committed to embedding these principles into all the work we do, reducing barriers so that students from all backgrounds and lived experiences can feel a sense of belonging in the communities they find here.
To align with our strategic priorities, and represent the diverse students we serve, we strongly encourage individuals who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups to apply.
We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening the mission of both the University of Toronto and Student Life.
Your Opportunity
Career Exploration & Education creates curricular and co-curricular learning experiences at the intersection of career, equity, and wellbeing in partnership with student, recent graduate, tri campus, and employer communities. Taking an ecosystem approach, we work intentionally to design and deliver career learning experiences that ensure students and recent graduates have the opportunity to thrive in their careers. We hold the vision that University of Toronto students and alumni experience and contribute to a more equitable and just world of work. In this work we strive to live the values of justice & belonging, reconciliation, learning, community, and curiosity. We are seeking an Assistant Director, Career Education with an educator skillset, a working knowledge of career development, experience with identity and hope-centered approaches to career learning, and a collaborative and compassionate approach to leadership. We invite applicants who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, and as a person with disabilities. We value lived experiences, and recognize its applicability to this position and work.
Reporting to the Director, Career Exploration & Education the Assistant Director, Career Education champions the strategy and delivery of services related to career education, career peer learning and support, and academic and career integration. The Assistant Director guides and leads the work of colleagues within the Career Education portfolio whose objective is to support student’s self-directed learning related to career exploration, career decision-making, employment and further education preparation. This portfolio assists students to reflect on and integrate their academic discipline, interests, abilities, experiences, and values in the development of their career aspirations in an ever-changing world.
Along with the Director and other unit colleagues, the Assistant Director will ensure that Career Exploration & Education provides a wide variety of in-person and virtual educational, experiential, interactive and reflective opportunities that facilitates student learning and increases agency as they find meaning and purpose, as they define it, and develop career aptitude and skills for lifelong success and well-being.
The successful candidate will be a creative and skilled systems thinker, prepared to build for the future of career education in an academic environment, preparing students and recent graduates for the complexities and realities of the labour market and world of work.
Essential Qualifications:
(MINIMUM) EDUCATION:
A Master’s degree in education with a focus on adult learning, student affairs, or career development; or degree in counselling, human resource management, or a related discipline is required or any equivalent combination of graduate-level education and experience.
EXPERIENCE:
Minimum 5 years of experience developing, managing, and evaluating student/client-focused programs, resources, events and services ideally in an educational environment across diverse populations.
At least 3 years of supervisory experience, preferably in a unionized environment, required. Demonstrated experience with strategic planning and execution.
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, follow-through, management of multiple projects and attention to detail.
Proven experience developing, managing, and evaluating student/client-focused career programs, services, and resources, including extensive program planning, with a focus on effective resource allocation and sustainability.
Knowledge of the intersection of career, mental health, and identity and demonstrated experience with identity and hope-centered approaches to career learning.
Experience working with Indigenous and equity-deserving students, with a focus on intersectionality, and experience collaboratively developing programs, services, and resources to address their career needs from a strengths-based perspective.
Possess excellent interpersonal skills in the areas of collaboration, team participation, creative problem-solving, conflict resolution, group planning, and shared decision-making processes.Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment with commitment to the promotion of an inclusive and innovative work environment.
Demonstrated commitment to principles of equity, diversity, inclusion access, and reconciliation.
Strong communication, networking, and relationship management skills. Ability to collaborate with campus and community partners, and external partners. Demonstrated investment in creating equity, equitable access, and inclusive engagement, including the ability to collaborate with Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) and disability-accessible student and campus partners.
Advanced technology skills in data management & analysis, assessment & evaluation and reporting.
SKILLS:
Strong ability to think analytically and strategically in a highly collaborative working environment; fostering productive working relationships is essential.
Excellent management and leadership skills, ability to mentor, ability to effectively lead and manage change, build strategic plans and lead teams towards a strategic vision. Fosters a student-focused team environment of high performance, trust, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Consultative skills to support partners on- and off-campus in the development and delivery of career and employment programming. Experience building and/or scaling up complex programs that required working with multiple constituent groups (e.g. students, faculty, administrators, other educational institutions, employers and community organizations, etc.).
Strong client relationship building skills, workshop development and group facilitation skills. Expertise in educational program design and project planning, management, and assessment and evaluation, with a focus on effective resource allocation and sustainability. Ability to design assessment and learning outcomes for all programs offered.
Strong organizational skills, accuracy and attention to detail, with a proactive solutions focus. Project management skills; ability to direct large-scale projects, e.g. re-development of a website or selection of computer systems to completion in a fast-paced high volume environment. Superior oral and written communications skills including sound presentation, public speaking, workshop development and facilitation skills. Research, analytical and reporting skills related to current industry trends and best practices.
Must be proficient with technology such as CRM management, social media, or other recruitment-related software and interested in identifying and adopting technological advances in the field. Well-developed computer skills in word-processing, spreadsheet applications and presentation software (PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.).
OTHER:
Maintain expertise on current developments in higher education, industry and employment trends making recommendations based on best practices and research. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of student development and learning.
Ability to form strong advising, mentoring, and working relationships with students of diverse backgrounds.
A consummate professional, with demonstrated integrity, professional maturity, judgment, tact, diplomacy and conflict resolution skills. Must be flexible and adaptable with a high level of initiative and results orientation, and the ability to foster that expectation in others.
Must have demonstrated strengths motivating and leading staff, and working as a team player with the capacity to handle a challenging workload in a calm, professional and proactive manner.
Maintains a strong commitment to continuous professional learning and development.
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.
Closing Date: 12/17/2025, 11:59PM ETEmployee Group: SalariedPersonnel Subarea:PMAppointment Type: Budget - ContinuingSchedule: Full-TimePay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: PM 3 -- Hiring Zone: $93,592 - $109,190 -- Broadband Salary Range: $93,592 - $155,985Job Category: Student Services
