Date Posted: 12/16/2025
Req ID: 46015
Faculty/Division: Vice-Provost, Students
Department: Career Centre
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00056442
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.
This role is situated within Career Exploration & Education. Career Exploration & Education creates curricular and co-curricular learning experiences at the intersection of career, equity, and wellbeing in partnership with student, recent graduate, tricampus, 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.
Your opportunity:
Reporting to the Assistant Director, Employer Recruitment & Engagement, supervised by the Lead Coordinator, Employer Recruitment & Engagement, and working with other members of Career Exploration & Education, the Employer Strategy & Engagement Specialist will be responsible for building and cultivating relationships with employers, alumni, and campus partners and maintaining labour market literacy to inform the coordination of recruitment initiatives and networking activities for students and recent graduates. This includes providing outstanding service to professionals across a range of industries, sectors, and organizations by ascertaining both their immediate and long-term recruitment needs while also communicating the diverse needs, interests, talents, lived experiences and expectations of U of T students as it relates to their career goals. The Employer Strategy & Engagement Specialist will strive to explore the realities of the labour market and work with employers to develop more inclusive hiring practices, increase access to opportunities for students who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, and/or as a person with a disability, and create spaces for meaningful engagement and reciprocal learning between industry professionals and students from all lived experiences and academic programs.
The incumbent will lead the business development, proactive recruitment and partnership building with new and established employers who wishto recruit and engage University of Toronto students across all faculties, programs, and year levels for employment, educational and co-curricular programming purposes. This would also include assisting external partners and community members in navigating the University ecosystem, making effective referrals to campus career and co-op offices, facilitating educational panels, posting opportunities and hosting events such as career fairs, employer information sessions, recruitment blitzes, and identifyingopportunities for collaborative programming across Career Exploration & Education and across the tri-campus community to best meet the needs of students and recent graduates.
The role will also include outreach to partnering organizations with strong Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and AODA mandates to increase career and employment opportunities, support and empower equity deserving students and students with disabilities.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Identifying, fostering and maintaining relationships with potential and existing employers
- Analyzing and recommending actions to increase employers' visibility
- Implementing plans and process improvements for program and service activities
- Developing learning outcomes for workshops and/or services
- Evaluating learning outcomes for program development
- Determining key performance indicators to measure success
- Facilitating educational workshopsand seminars
- Conceptualizing, organizing and executing program activities
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum three years of relevant experience in a university career centre, co-op or recruitment setting, developing and maintaining relationships, including active outreach.
- Experience managing effective relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders(including employers, alumni, students, staff and faculty).
- Experience with the development, facilitation and assessment of workshops and educational programming.
- Experience in employer development and knowledge of best-practices; developing, coordinating and implementing large scale programs.
- Experience working with Indigenous and equity-deserving students, with a focus on intersectionality.
- Proven ability to handle a variety of projects, deadlines and schedules simultaneously and independently prioritize own workflow.
- Strong relationship cultivation, building and management skills.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
- Customer service-oriented.
- Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office and ability to source information and data using the Internet and social media sites such as LinkedIn.
- Strong written communication skills (e.g. report writing; drafting content for marketing materials) and the ability to communicate effectively and empathetically with a diverse university student population in order to meet the needs of students.
- Broad knowledge of labour market trends.
- Demonstrated investment in creating equity, equitable access, and inclusive engagement, including the ability to collaborate with Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) and students who identify with a disability, employer, and campus partners.
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Approachable
- Motivated self-learner
- Organized
- Problem solver
- Tactful
- Team player
NOTE: This is a one (1) year term position.
Closing Date: 01/07/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time NOTE: This is a one (1) year term position.
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $76,577. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $97,928. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Blythe Campbell
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.
