Corporate Partnerships Officer

Date Posted: 12/17/2025

Req ID: 46448

Faculty/Division: VP - International

Department: Office of the Vice President International

Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Position Number:

Description:

About us:

The Office of the Vice-President, International (OVPI) engages with institutions and corporations in regions of strategic priority and leverages international opportunities for research, scholarship and mobility. By providing leadership on international initiatives, OVPI develops and maintains key international partnerships.

The Division of University Advancement (DUA) promotes and supports the University of Toronto by engaging a worldwide community of more than 600,000 alumni, plus many donors and friends. We are focused on doubling fundraising performance on a sustainable basis; enhancing the effectiveness and satisfaction of alumni participation and programs; building advancement capacity within and across divisions; creating an organization and culture that fosters leadership, initiative, effectiveness, and community; and contributing to the creation of an external relations strategy for a transforming image, reputation and standing of U of T along an axis of differentiation and excellence.

The Blue Door is a joint initiative of OVPI, DUA, and the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Institutional Strategic Initiatives to proactively engage with global industry on ambitious partnerships across a variety of dimensions. This client-based approach to corporate partnerships offers our partners a help hand in navigating the various divisions and functions within U of T and the Toronto Innovation Ecosystem more broadly.

Your opportunity:

The Corporate Partnerships Officer will be responsible for developing, implementing and stewarding corporate partnerships while supporting divisional priorities and institutional strategic initiatives through a client-based approach. The incumbent will work with a team on helping companies and other third parties external to the university engage with a variety of U of T services including, but not limited to sponsoring and collaborating on major research projects, supporting philanthropic initiatives, hiring student interns, and engaging in executive education. Note that this is a term position for approximately 17.5 months.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Accountability for meeting an annual financial target as a contributor to the overall international corporate team's target.
• Cultivating ongoing, high-profile prospective partnerships that advance strategic priorities.
• Developing marketing and partnership plans that support research needs and objectives.
• Liaising with contacts across the university and externally to identify opportunities for industry collaborations.
• Delivering presentations to external stakeholders to promote programs, opportunities and/or initiatives.
• Promoting the use of institutional resources through industry collaborations.
• Planning, executing, and following up on international business development missions to cultivate and land corporate partnerships.
• Gathering information about other research and/or technical facilities and about relevant industries. Liaising with academic units and stakeholders to support research funding initiatives.
• Conducting detailed analysis of grant application policy to maximize research funding. Producing detailed statistical report and analysis on facilities utilization, planning and revenue generation/spending to support decision making.
• Stewarding relationships with existing corporate partners, to ensure ongoing accountability and well as further development of the partnership.
• Updating and maintaining the Blue Door web portal
• Supporting the ongoing tracking of Blue Door corporate engagements through a client relationship management platform

Qualifications:

Essential Qualifications:

• A PhD or thesis-based Master's degree in a field of life sciences; natural sciences; social sciences or humanities; or a similar field is required; or an acceptable combination of equivalent experience.

• 3-5 years of demonstrated experience in:

• research and development in life sciences, natural sciences, social sciences or humanities;

• identifying, cultivating and stewarding funded research partnerships with corporations or individuals engaged in advanced research.
• Ability to liaise successfully with both faculty members and a spectrum of corporate partners as well as foundations, government funding agencies and non-governmental organizations.
• Ability to extract meaningful data from vast and diverse data sets is essential.
• Outstanding ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively.
• Ability to actively listen to partners, donors and faculty with a technical focus, identify areas of common interest, and to articulate a compelling case for the University of Toronto.
• Exceptional ability to organize cross-functional teams, and motivate faculty as well as external advocates and volunteers.
• Appreciation for new technologies, interdisciplinary research and their role in society required.
• Proven ability to work collegially and effectively, across the university and across corporate organizations, with academic administrators, principal investigators, advancement professionals, and other internal and external constituencies.
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to analyze data and an ability to solve problems in a creative and efficient manner are also essential.
• Excellent judgement and superior planning and time management skills with a focus on executing and completing multiple tasks under pressure and within deadlines.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience in business development, marketing, strategic planning, management consulting are considered assets
• Experience using commercial CRM tools is also considered an asset.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Insightful
• Proactive
• Team player
• Outgoing

NOTE: This is a term position until August 2027 with periodic travel to be expected 2 - 4 times per year.

Closing Date: 01/16/2026, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW

Appointment Type: Budget - Term

Schedule: Full-Time NOTE: This is a term position until August 2027 with periodic travel to be expected 2 - 4 times per year.

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:

USW Pay Band 15 - $97,348. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $124,491. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.

Job Category: Administrative / Managerial

Recruiter: Blythe Campbell

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.