Sessional Lecturer: HENT554 Health Financing (0.25FCE)

Date Posted: 04/30/2025
Closing Date: 05/21/2025, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 42750
Job Category: Sessional Instruction
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Lab. Medicine & Pathobiology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

As entrepreneurs within the health industry, understanding the impact of business operational decisions on financial statements is particularly important. This course is designed to equip entrepreneurs with the financial and economic decision-making skills required to make the right economic and financial decisions to drive their business. It focuses on how organizations are financed from external and internal sources, making investment decisions within the prevailing economic circumstance. It also emphasizes training students to apply financial tools and techniques that entrepreneurs and managers in health businesses require to maximize value by improving decisions relating to capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management.

The University of Toronto instructor will be co-facilitating the course with their KNUST counterpart. Partnering University: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

Estimated course enrollment:  ~ 30 students 
 

Estimated TA support: n/a

Class schedule: Virtual 3-hour seminar-style sessions; occurring from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST between June 2nd, 2025 – June 13th, 2025. 

Sessional dates of appointment:  June 2025

Salary (0.25 FCE):  

Sessional Lecturer I - $4,823.53
Sessional Lecturer I – Long Term - $5,162.10
Sessional Lecturer II - $5,162.10
Sessional Lecturer II – Long Term - $5,285.01
Sessional Lecturer III - $5,285.01
Sessional Lecturer III – Long Term - $5,417.66

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Minimum qualifications:  Master’s Degree or higher in Health Sciences or a related field. 

Preferred qualifications:  Previous experience in teaching, health venture investing, healthcare finance, organization economic decision-making, strategic financial planning and capital raising. 

Description of duties:  The instructor will be responsible for achieving the course objectives: broadening students' understanding of health venture financing, focusing on financial tools, health industry applications, and approaches to organizational financing, teaching them how to evaluate their health venture financial performance, and helping to further their economic decision-making skills.  The instructor will design class and take-home activities, co-creating the mid-term and contributing to the final examination.

Application instructions:  Please submit application using the following form: Summer 2025 Sessional Lecturer: HENT554 Health Financing (0.25FCE)

CAUTION: This ad is “posted only” to the U of T CUPE 3902 Unit 3 job board. Please see the informationdirectly above for the application instructions; applications submitted via the "Apply Now" button on this page will NOT be considered for this position.

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement. Please note:  Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.