Date Posted: 05/01/2026
Req ID: 47926
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00051446
Existing Vacancy: Yes

 

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 Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (RGASC) is a hub for academic skills development on the University of Toronto Mississauga campus. The mandate of the RGASC is to support and promote teaching and learning in a range of contexts across the University of Toronto Mississauga. For students, the RGASC is a resource for developing academic skills through individual appointments and group-based initiatives that help students identify and develop the academic skills they need for success in their studies. For instructional staff and faculty, the Centre is a partner in teaching and learning activities. These activities include course and program design, implementation and assessment of a given intervention’s impact.

Faculty and staff appointed to the RGASC have a range of specializations, including academic peer support, academic writing instruction, educational development, English language learning, numeracy, scientific literacy, and supplemental instruction. This diversity of experience and expertise enables the Centre to collaborate productively with partners from across the disciplines and campus, who bring with them a varied and diverse set of teaching and learning objectives.

Working with the Director, Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre (RGASC) and the Assistant Director, RGASC, and reporting to the Senior Educational Developer & Team Lead on day-to-day operations, the Educational Developer promotes a scholarly and evidence-based approach to teaching. They will provide expertise to support departments and instructors with enhancing teaching and learning outcomes. This will include facilitating and leading workshops and /or community of practices; and meeting individually with instructors to advise on strategies for developing and delivering curriculum (e.g., development of teaching dossiers, learning objectives, teaching activities, rubrics and assessments). 

The Educational Developer will have a good understanding of pedagogical literature and application of theory, and will make recommendations on best practices related to teaching and learning. They will be able to communicate and work effectively with faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, support staff and university administrators to foster and maintain networks that build capacity and collaboration that enhance pedagogical practices.

The Educational Developer should have a passion for supporting instructors of diverse backgrounds across the humanities, social sciences, science and management disciplines. They must also be sensitive to the professional development challenges and support needs of educators at all career stages and levels of experience.


Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing components of instructional programs


• Fostering and maintaining networks to build capacity and collaboration


• Planning and overseeing the implementation of an evaluation framework for assigned projects


• Evaluating learning outcomes for program development


• Advising instructors on strategies for developing and delivering curriculum


• Facilitating educational workshops and seminars


• Serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialists
  
  

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Education (PhD preferred) or an acceptable combination of equivalent experience


• Minimum five (5) years of experience in educational development and/or training and development, including a minimum of 3 (three) years of experience specifically in post-secondary education


• Demonstrated knowledge, skill, and experience with university-level instruction, program planning, facilitation, consultation, curriculum development, and faculty development.


• Knowledge of curriculum/curriculum development and able torespond to changes in the higher educational landscape, which includes proactively developing new instructional materials and workshops


• Demonstrated knowledge or engagement in scholarship, teaching, and learning related to theories and practices used in Universal Design for Learning (UDL); accessible pedagogy; anti-oppressive pedagogy; or anti-racist pedagogy within educational development and their application to the curriculum development processes, teaching, and resource development


• Demonstrated understanding of dialogic pedagogical approaches in higher education to support inclusive classroom discourse, equity-oriented, critical, and participatory pedagogies


• Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, facilitationand presentation skills


• Exceptional organizational skills, ability to successfully meet deadlines and proven project management abilities, coupled with adaptability and a commitment to building strong community relationships


• Must have strong computer skills, including a high degree of functionality in the use of all Microsoft Office applications


• Must show evidence of commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment

Assets (Nonessential):

• Membership and engagement with relevant professional bodies, such as the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) or STLHE (Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), is an asset


• Experience teaching at the post-secondary level

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable


• Communicator


• Cooperative


• Diplomatic


• Organized


• Proactive
  
  

Areas of focus may include:

• Universal Design for Learning  (UDL)


• Multimodal Assessments


• Critical Pedagogy


• Civil Discourse


• Anti-oppressive, Anti-racism Practices

**Please note that two continuing vacancies are available

Closing Date: 05/11/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 14 -- $91,677. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $117,242. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Desiray Stewart

 

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.

 

A job description is available upon request