Academic Initiatives

**Requisition Details**:

- **Job Title**:Academic Initiatives & Special Projects Consultant**:

- **Requisition #**:24-0651**:

- **Location**: 3065 King
- **Department**: Program Planning & Pathways
- **Payband**: I
- **Starting Rate**: $39.34
- **Payband Range**: $39.34 - $45.59
- **Hours/Week**: 37.5
- **Posting Date**: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
- **Closing Date**: Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST
- **Vacancy Type**: Support Staff - Full-time Temporary Appendix D Contract

Support Staff Full-time Appendix D Contract Position (September 2024 - July 11, 2025)

Working collaboratively with stakeholders in Academic Administration and across the college, the Academic Initiatives & Special Projects Consultant coordinates and contributes to project activity for the Program Planning & Pathways team. The Consultant has oversight for all aspects of legal agreements between Conestoga and partner institutions that facilitate student mobility pathways. The agreements outline a variety of educational pathway opportunities, both domestically and internationally, such as tailored credit transfer agreements and student or faculty exchanges_._

**Responsibilities**:
**Program Planning & Pathways**
- Completes project management activities that support the implementation of new Program Planning & Pathways initiatives
- Captures requirements, conducts analysis and assists with solution development
- Develops and updates project plans to ensure that deliverables are clearly communicated, documented, and tracked
- Creates communication and planning resources, assets, and templates
- Participates in planning meetings, creating presentations and presenting data and analysis

**Academic Agreements**
- Responsible for Academic Agreement development and review processes
- Provides project management, consultation expertise and feedback to support the creation and maintenance of Academic Agreements and related Pathways for Conestoga
- Demonstrates due diligence, ensuring the quality and accuracy of domestic and international Academic Agreements, including facilitating consultation with relevant Academic Schools, Curriculum Consultants, and other operational departments
- Maintains templates for Academic Agreements and presents updates for approval by applicable internal bodies
- Ensures that any terms of an Academic Agreement which grant credit exemption, equivalency, transfer, or Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) eligibility are accompanied by required curriculum mapping documentation and are approved
- Coordinates and facilitates Academic Agreement approvals and signing processes

**Funded Projects**
- Provides project management and liaison support to projects related to Pathways, Credit Transfer, PLAR, or broader student mobility projects, including the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT), Credit Transfer Institutional Grant (CTIG), Higher Education Equality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), or Conestoga Office of Research Services initiatives, etc.
- Acts as Conestoga’s primary liaison with ONCAT and final reports

**Data Analysis and Process Improvement**
- Conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis of department and college data; presents findings, including trends and anomalies
- Identifies potential areas for process improvement
- Researches emerging trends, best practices, and funding opportunities in student recruitment and mobility, including Pathways, Credit Transfer, PLAR, dual credentials, student exchange, retention, program development, planning, or review associated with provincial funding opportunities
- Networks with similar departments across the Ontario post-secondary system to share best practices and identify opportunities for project collaboration
- Oversees online repositories to ensure data accuracy and currency

**Financial Administration**
- Administers and oversees fees for Academic Agreements; ensures fees are calculated correctly, invoiced and processed, consulting with Finance
- Researches program development and renewal fee best practices
- Develops, reconciles and monitors budgets and credit card expenses

**Qualifications**:

- Three-year diploma/degree in Business, Communications, Arts or a related field of study
- Minimum five years of experience with project management is required; experience with contracts and agreements is preferred
- Experience in the post-secondary education sector is considered an asset
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Collaboration skills and the ability to initiate and oversee initiatives that require group and individual contributions through to completion
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

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