Undergraduate Administrator

**Date Posted**:08/22/2024
**Req ID**: 39433
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Biology
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00028125

**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 and discovery. 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**:
This position is based in the Department of Biology at UofT Mississauga and reports to the Manager, Finance and Operations. You will be responsible for providing comprehensive Advising to 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. You will also serve on the Biology Curriculum Committee, and organize the scheduling of undergraduate courses.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Acting as the first point of contact for program-related enquiries
- 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 on the appropriateness, precedents and process for petitions and appeals, and suggesting alternative course of action as necessary
- Reviewing and assessing petitions for special consideration
- Analyzing and making recommendations on award funding allocation
- Analyzing and making recommendations for programming enhancements
- Providing detailed information on programs, eligibility requirements, procedures and deadlines
- Verifying that students have access to courses in student information systems

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum four years of experience advising students on the development of their educational plans
- Demonstrated experience advising students on academic and/or financial matters by providing options and consequences incorporating personal circumstances impacting academic success and understanding of an individual's background
- Experience advising students on program and/or courserequirements
- Experience advising potential applicants, students, parents, and/or guidance counselors on admissions criteria and processes
- Experience delivering presentations to promote programs, opportunities and/or initiatives

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

- Accountable
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Courteous
- Diplomatic
- Organized
- Tactful

**Closing Date**: 09/03/2024, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Budget - Continuing
**Schedule**: Full-Time
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Administrative / Managerial

**Lived Experience Statement