Student Recruitment Officer Term

**Date Posted**:08/14/2025
**Req ID**: 44793
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Ofc of the Registrar
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00058441

**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.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Student Recruitment, the Student Recruitment Officer works closely with other members of the Student Recruitment and Admissions team to develop and implement strategies and initiatives to assist U of T Mississauga to achieve its recruitment and enrolment objectives with focus on international students within the Canadian and international education systems in public and private high schools, colleges and other universities. The Officer is responsible for representing U of T Mississauga and the U of T domestically and internationally in order to recruit well-qualified international students to the university.

The Student Recruitment Officer develops, plans, co-ordinates and represents U of T Mississauga at events and programs. Working as a member the team, the Officer assists in the co-ordination of campus visits including selection, training and supervision of student ambassadors and volunteers, ensuring student assistants are knowledgeable about the admissions process, requirements, and programs of the university. The Officer advises prospective students and their families on recruitment and admissions to the university and acts as a lead contact with high schools within Canada and abroad with large populations of international students to develop relationships and implement initiatives for pathways to admission at U of T Mississauga.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Conducting detailed data analysis to inform recruitment strategies and plans
- Fostering and maintaining a network of external contacts to support recruitment strategies
- Maintaining an in-depth knowledge of program advantages compared to competitor programs
- Delivering student recruitment presentations
- Providing detailed information regarding admission requirements to prospective students and applicants
- 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
- Providing detailed explanations of admissions decisions
- Responding to service requests in a timely fashion

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum four years' experience in university student recruitment and admission
- Experience working with international students and conversant with issues related to student recruitment, admission, university life and international students
- Experience in planning and coordinating large group events and programs
- Experience advising and providing services to a diverse population of youth and their parents
- Experience in public speaking and presenting to diverse groups and working within a rapidly changing environment
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding customer service and conflict resolution