Student Recruitment and Admissions Officer Term

**Date Posted**:11/11/2024
**Req ID**: 40629
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Ofc of the Registrar
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00048827

**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-Wend at, 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.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Fostering and maintaining a network of external contacts to support recruitment strategies
- Keeping well-informed on recruitment trends
- Promoting programs at recruitment events
- Delivering student recruitment presentations
- Fostering positive relationships with prospective students
- Advising potential applicants, students, parents, and/or guidance counselors on admissions criteria and processes by probing and providing a range of options and possible consequences

**Essential Qualifications**:

- University degree or equivalent combination of experience and education
- Minimum four (4) years' experience in a university direct student services environment
- Experience in large scale/divisional undergraduate student recruitment
- Experience planning and coordinating events and delivering presentation to diverse groups of prospective students
- Experience advising students on undergraduate admissions, transfer credit and academic requirements
- Knowledgeable about university life, student recruitment, transfer credit and admission policies, procedures and requirements
- Solid understanding of provincial, national and international university and college education systems
- Demonstrated commitment to providing outstanding customer and advising services with a proven record of tact, diplomacy and conflict resolution
- Excellent communication, public speaking and presentation skills
- Proficiency in ROSI, Slate, social media and MS Office with advanced level of knowledge in Excel
- Superior organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure within a rapidly changing environment and manage competing priorities and deadlines

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

- Diplomatic
- Motivated self-learner
- Multi-tasker
- Organized
- Self-directed
- Team player

**Closing Date**: 11/19/2024, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Budget - Term
**Schedule**: Full-Time
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Registrarial Services

**This is Term position until September 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**.**

**Lived Experience Statement