Academic Advisor

**Date Posted**:07/16/2025
**Req ID**: 44295
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Ofc of the Registrar
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00028115

**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 anddiscovery. 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 theMissinihe-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 whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

**Your opportunity**:
The Office of the Registrar at U of T Mississauga delivers registrarial services to support U of T Mississauga's academic goals and U of T priorities in the areas of student information, interpretation of policies, and innovation of registrarial interactions. Our core mission is effective and sustainable strategic enrolment management: student recruitment, retention, success and graduation. Operating in a culture of cooperation and collaboration, we achieve our goals and objectives based on values of student-focused solutions, integrity of academic records and continuous innovative improvements.

The Academic Advisor assists students with a wide range of academic issues and concerns, including interpretation of University requirements, policies and procedures, selection of courses and programs and meeting degree requirements. The Advisor directs students requiring specialized services to other student service areas such as Accessibility Services, the International Education Centre, Health and Counselling Centre, Career Centre, the Academic Skills Centre, etc. The work of the Advisor is accomplished through individual in-person, virtual and electronic interactions as well as group advising sessions, workshops and webinars.

The Academic Advisor works as a collaborative member of the academic advisingteam assisting with balancing the advising work schedule and supporting the work of the team and the Office of the Registrar as a whole. The Advisor contributes to the development of enhanced services for students to promote retention and improve the overall student experience.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Advising students on the development of their educational plans
- Keeping well-informed on University programs, policies and procedures
- Interpreting academic regulations, program and degree requirements
- Advising students on academic and/or financial matters by providing options and consequences incorporating personal circumstances impacting academic success and an understanding of an individual's background
- Advising students on program and/or course requirements by probing and providing a range of options and possible consequences
- Advising on the appropriateness, precedents and process for petitions and appeals, and suggesting alternative course of action as necessary
- Delivering presentations to promote programs, opportunities and/or initiatives
- Providing proactive support to individuals in distress and making referrals to specific university services

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum four years' experience working in a high pressure, direct student services university environment
- Experience advising students on undergraduate academic requirements, policies and procedures in a Registrar's Office
- Experience conducting presentations and/or workshops
- In depth knowledge of undergraduate academic policies and procedures
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presenting and public speaking
- Demonstrated initiative and commitment to working effectively as a team member in the delivery of quality service
- Strong commitment to diversity and the ability to function with sensitivity and respect in a multicultural/international environment
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and to employ tact, discretion and good judgement
- Strong organizational and time management skills, flexibility and abili