Assistant Director, Career Education

**Date Posted**:10/29/2025
**Req ID**: 45803
**Faculty/Division**: Vice-Provost, Students
**Department**: Career Centre
**Campus**: 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.

**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 ed