Admissions Officer (TERM)

Date Posted: 10/08/2024
Req ID: 40045
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Ofc of the Registrar
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00025829

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, Admissions, the Admissions Officer works alongside other members of the Student Recruitment and Admissions team to develop and implement strategies and initiatives to assist the University of Toronto Mississauga in achieving its enrolment intake.

Having a broad understanding of domestic and international secondary and post-secondary education systems, the Admissions Officer supports the admissions process by assessing and processing admissions applications with accuracy and efficiency. Working closely with academic departments, the Officer conducts transfer credit assessment and maintains course equivalency information. Together with the Academic Advising team, the Officer will help respond to inquiries and provide advising services to prospective and newly admitted students using extensive knowledge of the university’s policies and procedures as they relate to transfer credits and other admission pathways.

As a member of the Student Recruitment and Admissions team, the Admissions Officer contributes to overall U of T Mississauga recruitment and admission objectives, through the delivery of accurate and timely student-focused services, and positively represents U of T Mississauga through active participation in special events.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Applying established standards when administering a process for consistent evaluation of applications
• 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
• Reviewing and assessing admissions applications
• Providing detailed explanations of admissions decisions
• Applying established standards to ensure adherence with transfer credit rules and guidelines
• Providing detailed information on processes, policies and procedures
• Keeping well-informed on current technologies, best practices and industry standards
• Keeping well-informed on University programs, policies and procedures

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience and education
• Minimum four years’ experience in a university or post-secondary environment in registrarial services
• Experience reviewing, assessing and advising undergraduate students on admissions, transfer credit and academic requirements
• Excellent knowledge of domestic and international educational systems
• Demonstrated knowledge of undergraduate admissions and transfer credit assessment processes
• Solid understanding of undergraduate policies and procedures and admission requirements
• Excellent communication, public speaking and presentation skills
• Proficiency in student information systems and MS Office with advance knowledge of Excel
• Ability to learn new systems and to develop and maintain web-based information and applications
• Excellent analytical and interpretative skills with the ability to understand and apply a large amount of information and complex set of regulations and guidelines with minimal supervision
• Strong Communication and interpretation skills, using and sound judgement
• Superior organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure and meet competing priorities and deadlines

Assets (Nonessential):

• Knowledge of ROSI and Stale

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Goal oriented
• Motivated self-learner
• Organized
• Possess a positive attitude

Closing Date: 10/17/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $79,874. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $102,147. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Registrarial Services
 

This a term position until December 2025

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.