IMIx Marketing & Operations Coordinator

Date Posted: 01/14/2025

Req ID: 41310

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: UTM: Inst. for Management & Innovation

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number: 00053561

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 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 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.

The Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching hub located at the heart of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). IMI prepares the next generation of leaders, contributes to communities, and solves problems through the discovery, application and communication of knowledge in management, social sciences and sciences.

IMIx Executive programs (IMIx) is the unit of IMI that offers non-degree, certificate programs designed for executives and managers to advance their career ambitions efficiently and effectively. IMIx aims to empower working professionals with tools, frameworks, and new ways of thinking through flexible, immersive and collaborative programs. These flexible learning opportunities are offered as open enrolment programs as well as customized learning solutions for organizations and industries.

Your opportunity:

Reporting to the Director, Operations & Finance, and working with the IMIx Program and Business Development Manager and the Academic Program Director, the IMIx Marketing and Operations Coordinator will be working as part of the IMIx Executive Programs team. The qualified candidate will have a keen interest in the marketing and delivery of non-degree programs to organizations, business and the UTM community as well as supporting the programs’ faculty and speakers. The IMIx Marketing and Operations Coordinator will also provide support to other IMI program initiatives and activities, as required.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Fostering and maintaining a network of external contacts to support recruitment strategies
• Developing content for marketing and/or promotional materials
• Implementing a digital media plan that supports marketing/communications strategy
• Running programs by implementing methods of practice and related processes to support their delivery
• Determining logistical details and activities for events and/or programming
• Coordinating meeting schedules, agendas, materials, action and follow-up items
• Recording expenses on a single account
• Serving as a resource to others by providing (non-supervisory) job-related guidance

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum four years experience, preferably in continuing education, higher education, or a closely related field.
• Experience in marketing, developing marketing strategies, and promotional materials.
• Experience in market research and analysis, identification of key target markets as well as direct sales and relationship development.
• Experience using social and digital media for marketing and outreach.
• Experience consulting with instructors, administrators on the development of programming needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational, project management and time management skills to cope with multiple programs and events occurring within short and overlapping time periods.
• Demonstrated advanced skills in MS Office (Microsoft, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams/Zoom). Skilled in the use of Adobe Creative Suites (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Canva and other related systems), Drupal and/or similar content management systems.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment.
• Flexibility for occasional availability on weekends to support Department events.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Knowledge and understanding of non-degree, executive programming.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Achievement oriented
• Communicator
• Diligent
• Insightful
• Proactive
• Resourceful
• Please note that there is one (1) position available on a term basis of 18-months**

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline

Closing Date: 01/22/2025, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW 

Appointment Type: Budget – Term 

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:

USW Pay Band 11 — $75,223. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $96,196. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 

Job Category: Communication/Media/Public Relations

Recruiter: Veniesha Rochester

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.

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