Project Specialist

**Date Posted**:09/10/2025
**Req ID**: 45139
**Faculty/Division**: Vice-Provost, Students
**Department**: Health and Wellness
**Campus**: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
**Position Number**: 00054937

**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.

Consisting of an interdisciplinary team of health professionals and support staff, Health & Wellness at the University of Toronto aims to support graduate and undergraduate students in reaching their academic goals, engage students in their development and learning, and support their health and well-being by providing health education, clinical and consultation services. Health and Wellness (HW) provides counselling to students with a wide range of concerns ranging from relationship problems to debilitating depression and anxiety, suicidal and/or homicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress, and eating disorders.

**Your opportunity**:
Reporting to the Director, Professional Practice & Quality Assurance at the University of Toronto, the Project Specialist implements the day-to-day operations of the Best Practices Network (“Network”), a national mental health community of practice and knowledge exchange network that supports Canadian post-secondary campuses and aims to promote and advance evidence-informed emerging, promising, and best practice mental health and wellness initiatives that improve Canadian post-secondary students’ mental health and well-being. The Network is a collaboration between the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, McGill University, and the University of British Columbia.

The Project Specialist engages in a variety of administrative activities, project management, research, and outreach to community partners to support and advance the goals and objectives of the Network. The position will be responsible for a variety of knowledge exchange and learning activities to support network members in their collective work to advance best practices in student mental health in postsecondary contexts.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Planning and implementing project phases and communication; reviewing and assessing requirements needed to meet project timelines and informing project leaders of issues and roadblocks.
- Editing content for newsletters, websites, listserv; maintaining content on websites.
- Conducting literature reviews, researching and recommending appropriate resources and materials summarizing the information as reference materials to support projects, communications materials and presentations.
- Organizing materials for workshops, conferences, and/or events.
- Developing and maintaining project quality control standards.
- Producing complex statistical information. Formatting data collected for presentations and reports.
- Supporting evaluations and assessments of mental health projects across the country.

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in health sciences or other appropriate field, Master’s degree in Public Health or health-related field (e.g., psychology, social work) preferred or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum six years relevant experience in project design and implementation with applicability to knowledge exchange and communications.
- Extensive experience managing complex and multi-stakeholder projects, including leading, organizing and tracking the outcomes of projects in a mental health setting, preferably in a post-secondary mental health.
- Experience producing reports and presenting findings.
- Familiarity and experience with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies (interviews, focus groups, etc.).
- Maintain knowledge of current national and international best practices in post-secondary student mental health programming, evaluation, and research.
- Ability to work with diverse groups, strong facilitation interpersonal skills and political acumen, ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong research, writing, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent editing and proofreading skills
- Superior organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and manage time effectively.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Computer skills required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Experience with managing website and social media content.

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

- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Multi-tasker
- Organized
- Team player

**Note: This is a term position with an estimated start date of October 1, 2025, with an end date of Augus