Date Posted: 09/18/2025
Req ID: 45199
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: International Education Centre
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:
In collaboration with the Supervisor, Intercultural Fluency and International Student Development, the Student Development Coordinator (SDC), International Programs will advance the International Education Centre’s (IEC) mission, as an innovative, collaborative, and globally significant leader in the internationalization of the student experience. The Coordinator will play a critical role in developing, supporting and advancing the work of the IEC, in order to provide coordinated and meaningful support to international and globally-minded students at UTM.
The SDC, International Programs will assume primary responsibility for the development and delivery of in-person programs and supports that enhance the international student experience and prepare them for success at UTM, in Canada, and beyond. The SDC will achieve this through the conception, implementation, and delivery of multi-modal programs that reflect the programmatic cornerstones of peer mentorship, engagement, student learning and development. In particular, the SDC, International Programs will oversee in-person international student orientation and in-person community-building supports and programs during peak stages of the student development timeline (e.g., fall and winter orientation, summer student staff training, etc.).
The SDC, in collaboration with other IEC staff, will be responsible for the supervision and leadership development of a team of student staff. The SDC will actively work with the staff team to establish a sense of community and belonging amongst international students.
The Coordinator will need to be on campus to deliver programs, and occasional overtime and flex time are required.
Your responsibilities will include:
-Planning and implementing components of co-curricular and in-person programs and activities for international students at UTM such as international student orientation, international student mentorship program, and both on and off-campus community-building events for international students.
-Fostering cooperative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts.
-Facilitating educational workshops and seminars.
-Developing student assessment plans to support student learning outcomes and competencies.
-Advising students on co-curricular, academic and personal matters by providing options and consequences incorporating personal circumstances impacting academic success and an understanding of an individual's background.
-Keeping well-informed on theories related to equity, diversity and inclusion.
-Directing the activities of casual staff.
-Training and coaching student life staff and student leaders.
Essential Qualifications:
-University degree in Education, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
-Minimum four (4) years related professional experience with international students and post-secondary students.
-Strong experiential background developing anddelivering programs and supports that enhance the international student experience.
-Experience in facilitating partnerships with constituents from a variety of institutional functional areas (students, student leaders, staff, faculty and administration).
-Demonstrated experience in coaching, mentoring, and supervising student leaders and staff.
-Exceptional intercultural competency awareness; experience working with diverse communities and cultures and an understanding of anti-oppression and equity practices.
-Proven leadership, supervisory, and problem solving skills. Must be comfortable working as a member of a team composed of very different individuals with varying responsibilities.
-Ability to relate to studentsin a manner that engenders trust and confidence and must be able to demonstrate the ability to implement programs.
-Strong assessment (quantitative and qualitative) skills, including program evaluation and performance assessments.
-Excellent administrative skills, including word processing, data analysis, desktop publishing and experience with databases.
-Commitment to improving and enhancing the student experience; understanding of professional best practices for programs, policiesand staff development.
Assets (Nonessential):
-Knowledge of University of Toronto practices across numerous departmental settings is an asset.
-Demonstrated knowledge of customer service and information communication standards of practice; understanding of professional best practices for programs, policies and staff development. in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
-Thorough knowledge of the university’s procedures as they relate to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FIPPA) and management of confidential student information.
-Training in Project Management would be an asset.
To be successful in this role you will be:
-Communicator
-Organized
-Problem solver
-Self-directed
-Team player
Please note this is a Term position ending February 28, 2027. With a possibility of renewal.
Closing Date: 09/29/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule:
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
Job Category: Student Services
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged , and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
