Academic Integrity Specialist

Date Posted: 11/13/2025

Req ID: 45801

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: UTM: Ofc of the Dean

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number:

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 humanpotential.

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 anddiscovery. 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 theMissinihe-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:

The Academic Integrity Unit (AIU) in the Office of the Vice-Principal Academic and Dean (OVPAD) handles all allegations of undergraduate academic misconduct at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) in relation to the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters.

As the Academic Integrity Specialist, you will provide a range of confidential administrative support to the academic integrity and discipline portfolio. You will be responsible for promoting and advancing the mission of the AIU by educating faculty, staff, and students on issues related to academic integrity, by acting as a resource to academic departments for information about the process involved in academic offence cases, and by facilitating the process to handle all allegations of academic misconduct.

The ideal candidate for this position will be a motivated self-starter with impeccable organization andplanning skills, as well as possess a high degree of confidentiality and tact when working in this area.

The Academic Integrity Specialist will report directly to the Director, Academic Success and Integrity and will work closely with other Academic Integrity Specialists, the Academic Appeals and Integrity Coordinator, Dean's Designates, and the Vice-Dean, Academic Experience on all issues related to academic integrity and misconduct at UTM. You will work as part of a team to develop relationships with other partners at the University, including academic departments, the Office of the Registrar, the Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre, and the International Education Centre.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Interpreting applicable guidelines and protocols to determine policy violations
• Investigating and reporting on academic related non-compliance issues
• Identifying and reporting on measures taken to address non-compliance issues
• Ensuring resolution of non-compliance cases and transgressions
• Providing detailed explanations and demonstrating procedures to students and/or employees
• Providing proactive support to individuals in distress and making referrals to specific university services
  
  

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum four years of recent and related experience, ideally in a post-secondary or academic environment
• Demonstrated experience with academic petitions, appeals, or integrity processes
• Experience interpreting academic regulations and policies
• Experience investigating and reporting on academic related non-compliance issues
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent communications (oral and written) skills.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise tact, diplomacy, empathy, sound judgment and discretion.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience delivering presentations to promote programs, opportunities and/or initiatives
• Experience developing content formarketing and/or promotional materials
• Experience leading seminars and/or workshops

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Diligent
• Efficient
• Organized
• Tactful
  
  

Closing Date: 11/21/2025, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW 

Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:

USW Pay Band 12 -- $81,312. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $103,986. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 

Job Category: Administrative / Managerial

Recruiter: Desiray Stewart

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.