Experiential Learning Officer

**Date Posted**:06/04/2025
**Req ID**: 43259
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Ofc of the Dean
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00043311

**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 human potential.

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 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 whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

**Your opportunity**:
The Experiential Education Unit (EEU) in the Office of the Vice-Principal Academic and Dean (OVPAD), UTM, aims to enrich the undergraduate education experience by promoting and nurturing unique opportunities and approaches to learning both within and outside of the classroom. General areas of responsibilities of the OVPAD include: academic programs, academic HR; academic policy and planning; academic experience; academic integrity; academic appeals; experiential education; teaching and learning support; strategic leadership; divisional research and data analysis; graduate affairs; tri-campus affairs; and more.

The Experiential Learning Officer will report to the Manager, Experiential Education, and work closely with the Director, Experiential Education & Community Engagement, the Associate Dean, Academic Experience, and stakeholders in various academic units. You will work as part of a team to develop relationships with partners within and outside the university, as well as external organizations within our local and international communities.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Conducting detailed labour market analysis to inform program and partnership development.
- Developing and revising business methods that support employment services activities and objectives.
- Keeping well-informed on policies, rules, regulations and guidelines.
- Ensuring contracts and agreements are consistent with University standards and guidelines.
- Implementing plans that support the development of work-integrated learning opportunities for students.
- Responding to enquiries within the defined scope of the role and redirecting asappropriate.

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum five years of related experience in an experiential learning environment.
- Experience matching, placing and supporting students in for-credit student placements.
- Experience in academic advising, and providing guidance to students.
- Experience and work in student placement.
- Experience in program development and evaluation.
- Familiarity with database management systems and ROSI.
- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to positively represent UTM in the community and to all members of the University community.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple deadlines and priorities, and appreciate and interact well with diverse personalities and cultural backgrounds.

**Assets (Nonessential)**:

- Experience working in a University environment in the area of experiential learning.

**To be successful in this role you will be**:

- Approachable
- Diplomatic
- Efficient
- Motivated self-learner
- Possess a positive attitude
- Tactful
- Team player

**Please note that there is one (1) position available on a term basis ending December 2026**

**This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the**University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline**

**Closing Date**: 06/12/2025, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Budget - Term
**Schedule**: Full-Time
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Student Services
**Recruiter**: Veniesha Rochester

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