Co-op Coordinator

Date Posted: 02/27/2024
Req ID: 36067
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Department: Professional Experience Year
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00045218

Description:

About us:

The Engineering Career Centre (ECC) connects University of Toronto students with meaningful professional experiences that provide a solid foundation for successful careers and life-long learning. In addition to hosting a wide range of professional development workshops, events and services throughout the year, the ECC team runs a work-integrated learning program that connects engineering students with a wide range of industry opportunities. As passionate and career-driven academic professionals, the ECC team seeks to nurture students and provide a comfortable transition from academic to professional life.

Your opportunity:

The Engineering Career Centre is the second largest operation of its kind in Ontario, offering extensive support to University of Toronto students seeking experiential learning opportunities. The ECC is undergoing rapid expansion in both team growth and program evolution.

The Engineering Career Centre prides itself as an open, professional environment that fosters a culture built on respect, goal orientation, self-motivation, accountability, and teamwork. The leadership team believes in recognizing and valuing our employees’ contributions to the advancement of the department’s goals while promoting a strong commitment to work-life balance among our employees.

The ECC team is credited with executing a highly successful work integrated learning program that connects engineering students with meaningful work terms of up to 16 months in length. Under the general direction of the Director, Employer Relations, the Co-op Coordinator will participate in business development activities and support student work-integrated learning during a Professional Experience Year (PEY) work term recruitment cycle. The Employer Relations team plays a valuable role in facilitating interactions between student job-seekers and hiring managers to solidify and grow existing relationships with PEY employers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Promoting programs at recruitment events.
• Analyzing job descriptions and recommending changes to employer.
• Reviewing performance evaluations and providing feedback to both the employer and the student.
• Implementing plans that support the development of work-integrated learning opportunities for students. Building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance by engaging in day-to-day communication, and actively seeking networking and relationship-building opportunities.
• Probing for information from employers to establish activities that best meet student learning needs.
• Conducting work term site visits and writing reports on site visit findings.
• Evaluating job prospects in alignment with student academic goals.
• Advising students on work related recruitment processes and practices.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years of recent and related experience in any combination of employment services, recruitment and/or hiring. This might have been gained through a role in co-operative education or internship programs; a human resources generalist function or a specialist recruitment function.
• Minimum of two years working directly with industry partners in a recruitment capacity or facilitating co-op work terms is required.
• Years in an engineering graduate degree program will count towards years of required experience.
• Strong computer skills and working knowledge of MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint; web editing software, relational databases, and the Internet research tools.
• Must have excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Highly developed sense of accountability, initiative, judgement, tact, diplomacy, and professionalism.
• Results-orientation and time-management skills.
• Highly developed presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Strong client service orientation and relationship management skills.
• Ability to travel within the GTA and surrounding area.
• A passion and commitment to the University and its students, and ability to bring energy and creativity to the role.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and the promotions of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Graduate degree or educational background in Engineering, Human Resources or Business.
• Valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle are assets.
• Goal oriented and comfortable working in a target-based environment.
• Experience working with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools.
• Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people at different levels of theUniversity and with external stakeholders.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Achievement oriented
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Proactive
• Resilient
• Tactful

Closing Date: 03/11/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services

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.