Accessibility Advisor (Term)

Date Posted: 04/01/2025
Req ID: 42321
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Accessibility Services
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00036419

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:

Accessibility Services provides academic accommodations and services for students with disabilities and promotes a fully integrated university experienceby ensuring that students have the opportunity to access and participate in all areas of student life. In partnership with a variety of Student Affairs and Academic departments, Accessibility Services provides comprehensive programming throughout a student’s university career to foster greater resiliency and promote the development of knowledge and skills that are transferrable to their future goals.

Using a holistic approach, you will work with an ethno-culturally and academically diverse student population performing an assessment of students’ needs primarily related to mental health conditions with co-morbid conditions, ensure that appropriate documentation has been received, review and assess confidential medical/psychological documentation; assess, plan, implement, evaluate and adapt accommodations based on the student’s individual disability-related needs; assist the students in self-monitoring the effectiveness of accommodations; make referrals to internal and external supports as appropriate.

In addition, you will facilitate the student’s knowledge about theirdisability, addressing the strengths and challenges the disability brings to their academicpursuits and daily life activities;determine if assistive technology would assist the student,
referring when required; assess, recommend, and provide appropriate documentation to support the use of funding for disability-related expenses.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Researching and recommending alternative approaches and possible accommodation solutions as part of the duty to accommodate
• Advising course instructors and staff on student accommodations issues
• Reviewing and approving disability related educational expenses through the OSAP Bursary for Students with Disabilities (BSWD)
• Writing confidential student accommodation summaries
• Providing case management support to students requiring the coordination of multiple services
• Determining the reasonability of an accommodation in relation to a student's disability

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in counselling, psychology, education, social work or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
• Minimum four years experience in a post-secondary setting with students whose primary accommodations and supports are required due to a mental health condition.
• Demonstrated experience dealing with persons in emotional distress or conflict.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing clinical documentation, including psychological evaluations is required.
• Experience in developing, implementing and monitoring accommodation plans for persons with disabilities and possessing a thorough understanding of disability issues.
• Computer fluency (e.g. Microsoft Word; Excel). Experience with Clockwork Scheduling System is an asset.
• Critical thinking and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent reading, oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within an inter-disciplinary team environment.
• Ability to exercise initiative, tact, discretion, problem solvingskills and to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Must have a commitment to the principles of equity and inclusion and be able to demonstrate an understanding of the implications of disabilities as they relate to a student’s success at university and in a broader context.
• Knowledgeable about general academic structure of a University and the specific requirements of academic courses and programs.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize knowledge and display sound judgment, attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Organized
• Proactive
• Problem solver

Closing Date: 04/09/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 14 -- $90,056. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $115,169. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

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.

This is a term position ending April 3, 2026