Career Advisor

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Job

Requisition  Type:

Full time Employee Group:

Staff Job Category:

Career and Employment

Employment Type:

Temporary Department:

Co-operative and Experiential Education - Undergraduate and Co-op Team IIHiring Range:$67,688.63 - $84,610.79

Posting Information:

This posting is for an existing vacancy.
2 roles availible: one will be aligned to the Faculty of Math, and the other will be aligned to the Faculty of Health. This alignment is in support of faculty-tailored programming and relationship building

The internal posting deadline for this position is November 12, 2026 at 11:59PM.

Job Description:

Primary Purpose Career Advisors support students and/or alumni to identify and achieve their career and employment goals. They help them to identify their values, needs and skills and use this information to seek out, engage in, and extract meaning from a wide variety of experiences. Each career advisor tends to work closely with a particular group of learners, such as undergraduate students, graduate students, students who wish to pursue professional or graduate school and/or alumni.

There are opportunities to specialize within the role in areas such as career indecision or change, continuing education, navigating the co-op process, career curriculum development, peer advising supervision, etc.

Key Accountabilities Support students and/or alumni in employment, career decision-making and strategy, further education, and/or co-op and work-integrated learning (WIL) contexts
• Develop strong, supportive advising relationships that are adaptable to people from all identities and experiences.
• Cultivate trust with people in one-on-one environments, centering attention on the values and needs of the person seeking service and creating an environment that encourages the development of self-efficacy, resilience, and career optimism.
• Facilitate reflection through active listening and interviewing skills to help people identify and synthesize self-information for use in a variety of career, employment, and further education settings.
• Capably help people to find and access the tools and resources that will help them identify and/or pursue their priorities and goals.
• Support people to understand and navigate sometimes-opaque employment and institutional systems.
• Facilitate learning through group advising, workshops, webinars, presentations, events and resources to meet student/alumni needs, customized to the audience (e.g., specific associations/academic programs; in and outside of the classroom).
• Guide people in accessing and using labour market and other sources of information to build their understanding of the world of work
• Tailor approach to setting (in person, by phone, online) and the individual’s needs through active listening, application of counselling microskills, and relevant content knowledge.
• Plan and run effective, tailored career- and employment-related events.
• Enhance programming for prospective and pre-arrival students across campus.

Strengthen on-campus reputation as source of curricular and co-curricular career learning and growth
• Support other on-campus Advisors in developing best practices-aligned services encompassing career education.
• Coach other on-campus Advisors on a case-by-case basis to enable effective career supports.
• Build…