Academic Advisor, Student Academic Success Term

**Date Posted**:07/31/2025
**Req ID**: 44546
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Ofc of the Registrar
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00058419

**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 who want 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 Academic Advisor, Student Academic Success Initiatives will focus on targeted advising initiatives designed for special student populations, including those at risk of academic probation or suspension, and those who are not admitted to their first-choice programs. In addition to academic advising, the Advisor will also support the planning, implementation and assessment of initiatives aimed at promoting retention and improving the overall student experience.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Advising students on the development of their educational plans
- 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
- Planning and implementing curricular and/or co-curricular programs and activities designed to support student academic success
- Facilitating educational workshops and seminars
- Providing proactive support to individuals in distress and making referrals to specific university services
- Interpreting academic regulations, program and degree requirements
- Monitoring student degree progress

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum four (4) years recent experience working in a university student services environment
- Experience advising students on undergraduate academic requirements, policies and procedures
- Experience in planning, implementing and evaluating programming designed to support student academic success
- Experience conducting presentations and/or workshops
- In depth knowledge of undergraduate academic policies and procedures
- 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 with the ability to be flexible and ability to multi-task
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines

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

- Approachable
- Communicator
- Organized
- Possess a positive attitude
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