Student Engagement Coordinator, Transition Coaching

7 days ago


Mississauga, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto Full time

Date Posted:02/02/2024

Req ID: 35841

Faculty/Division:
UofT Mississauga

Department:

UTM:
Ctr Std Engagemt

Campus:
University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number:

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 humanpotential.


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 intoand retention through university and encourages student engagement and community engaged learning.

With over 90 opportunities led by 160 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 Student Engagement Coordinator, Transition Coaching reporting to the Assistant Director, Access & Transition, assumes primary responsibility for programs that offer one-on-one and peer coaching that aims to equip students with strategies and skills for improving their transition experience and academic skills through the development of resiliency, effective habits, goal setting, and resource utilization.

The cornerstone programs of this portfolio include the Transition Coaching Program which utilizes a transition vulnerability index to outreach and provide transition coaching tonew to UTM students and Grad Connect, a mentorship program that pairs an upper-year student with a grad or post-grad student mentor to support their planning for graduate school.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Advising students on cocurricular, academic and personal matters by providing options and consequences incorporating personal circumstances impacting academic success and an understanding of an individual's background
  • Training and coaching students on realistic goal setting and time management skills
  • Screening and making referrals to academic advising and learning skills programs and other resources or services
  • Writing case notes after a client meeting
  • Planning and implementing components of curricular and/or cocurricular programs and activities
  • Fostering cooperative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts
  • Planning and overseeing the implementation of an evaluation framework for programs and initiatives
  • Monitoring accounts for a project and/or program

Essential Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science or related discipline or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
  • Minimum four years of student development programming, coaching or advising specifically working in a postsecondary education setting.
  • Experience coaching a diverse student population and facilitating group programming and individualized learning with an emphasis on goal setting and transition activities.
  • Expertise and knowledge of best practices in student transition, learning skill development, and program development.
  • Experience with evaluation and research tools, and demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize data.
  • Supervision of student staff with proven ability to lead, coach, train and motivate.
  • Experience managing a budget.
  • Highly collaborative, with proven ability to work collegially with students, faculty, and staff
  • Effective time management skills with the ability to manage large volumes of work and effectiely prioritize, multitask and


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