Sessional Lecturer: HENT560 Corporate Health Entrepreneurship (0.5 FCE)

Date Posted: 04/30/2025
Closing Date: 05/21/2025, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 42734
Job Category: Sessional Instruction
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Dept of Lab. Medicine & Pathobiology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

This course focuses on how students can acquire knowledge and abilities to think and act entrepreneurially to continually innovate in activities carried out in established health industries. Established health industries must constantly expand and diversify their entrepreneurial activities to sustain their existence by creating new services for their customers. This course equips students with the entrepreneurial mindset and innovation skills within established health organizations. It covers building supportive work environments, sustaining entrepreneurial performance, and overcoming innovation challenges. Students will explore innovation from multiple perspectives and gain frameworks for driving entrepreneurial initiatives while developing a network of peers to exchange ideas and insights.
 

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: not applicable

Class schedule:  Virtual 3-hour seminar-style sessions; occurring from 9:00 AM – 12:00 AM EST Every Monday, May 5th, 2025 – July 14th, 2025. 

Sessional dates of appointment:  May - July 2025

Salary (0.5 FCE):  

Sessional Lecturer I - $9,647.06
Sessional Lecturer I – Long Term - $10,324.20
Sessional Lecturer II - $10,324.20
Sessional Lecturer II – Long Term - $10,570.02
Sessional Lecturer III - $10,570.02
Sessional Lecturer III – Long Term - $10,835.32
 

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, industry leadership roles in a healthcare organizations, proven track record of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial initiatives, strong project management ability, mentorship of startups, business planning strategic collaboration and new health venture creation. 

Description of duties:  The instructor will be responsible for achieving the course objectives: Equip students with strategies to understand entrepreneurial behaviour in organizational operations. Provide foundation and practical insights into entrepreneurship and innovation through hands-on activities. Support skill advancement in identifying opportunities for innovation within health ventures and organizations while recognizing the responsibilities of an entrepreneur when moving from idea to opportunity to implementation. 

The instructor will be responsible for designing class and take-home activities, creating the midterm, and contributing to the final examination.

Application instructions:  Please submit application using the following form: Summer 2025 Sessional Lecturer: HENT560 Corporate Health Entrepreneurship (0.5 FCE)

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.