Academic Integrity

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**Job Summary**

**A Brief Overview**

This position acts as the first point of contact and resource for academic integrity questions and inquires. This position acts as a representative for the Faculty on committees related to academic integrity, appeals or other academic matters. Researches, develops, and recommends best practices for emerging issues related to Departure from Academic Integrity (DFAI), such as the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This position registers and tracks departures from academic integrity, and produces statistical reports. This position also approves student academic requests such as appeals, waivers, registration changes, or similar submissions, in accordance with established policies and procedures, and prepares a variety of communications including decision letters, briefing notes, and press releases.

**What you will do**

Acts as the first point of contact and resource, responds to inquiries and informs students and faculty on matters of academic integrity including regulations, processes, responsibilities, findings, appeals, and appropriate sanctions.

Oversees the coordination of investigations including preparing case files, drafting chronologies, and briefing notes, verifying facts, obtaining accounts of events, compiling supporting data, and conducting initial assessments of new cases.Develops and recommends best practices for emerging issues related to Departure from Academic Integrity (DFAI), such as the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Researches, interprets, and compiles practices for emerging issues such as AI and DFAI at peer institutions and recommends changes to policy and procedures.Acts as representative for the Faculty and participates on the university-wide committees related to academic integrity, appeals or other academic matters.Approves student academic requests such as appeals, waivers, registration changes, or similar submissions; for complex requests, interprets, researches, and prepares recommendations for senior leaders.Reviews documentation, precedents, and policy, researches, interprets, and uses comparators to recommend sanction for senior leaders' approval.Registers, updates, and tracks departures from academic integrity in databases and prepares statistical reports.Provides administrative support for appeals for academic integrity findings, including decision letters, briefing notes, and press releases.Tracks open appeals and updates transcripts upon decisions.Updates information on department websites.
- Provides academic advising.
- Oversees requests for special and/or confidential exams.
- Collates exam incident reports and liaises with instructors on next steps.
- Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

**Required Education**
- Four-Year Bachelor Degree or equivalent. In addition, requires trade certification, qualification, or on-going learning to remain ahead of changes in technology or emerging fields.

**Required Experience**
- More than 3 years and up to and including 5 years of experience.- Experience working at a post-secondary education institution considered an asset.
- Experience advising students considered an asset.
- Experience in writing, interviewing, reviewing, editing and/or proofreading internal and/or external communications and documents considered an asset (e.g., social media, policy manuals, newsletters, handbooks, legal documents, forms/templates, blogs, training/reference materials, technical documents, webinars, etc.).
- Experience with providing administrative support considered an asset (e.g., document editing, proofing, formatting and production, data entry, scheduling/coordinating meetings and/or travel arrangements, receiving/relaying messages, etc.).

Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

**Job Knowledge and Requirements**
- Knowledge of concepts and principles in a specialist field that is typically acquired through a combination of advanced professional or academic qualifications and/or substantial work experience.
- Provide effective consultation and advice on non-straightforward and/or complex issues.
- Interaction with others requires interpersonal skills and the ability to understand and influence.
- Adapt messages to meet the different needs of different audiences.
- Builds relationships, trust and credibility.
- Prioritize and distribute work to deliver objectives on time and to the highest standard.
- Identify in advance when the intended results may not be achieved and develops a pl