Manager, Career Education

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Job Requisition :

Time Type: Full time

Employee Group: Staff

Job Category: Academic Advising

Employment Type: Temporary

Department: Co-operative and Experiential Education - Career Education

Hiring Range: $95,538.29 - $

Posting Information: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Term: 2 years

This position is being offered as a Secondment or contract opportunity

The internal posting deadline for this position is September 3rd, 2026_, at_ 11:59PM

Faculty pairings will include Engineering and Math.

The Centre for Career Development strives to support all students in acquiring the capabilities to be purposeful in steering their career.

Career development education helps learners make connections between classroom learning and the labour market, supporting their career readiness.

The CCD supports students in building self- and labour market awareness, and practicing being purposeful to seek work and learning opportunities and engage resiliently with the changing world of work. The CCD is a thought leader in defining what quality career development learning looks like and enabling its ongoing evolution within the mature and ever-evolving ecosystem of Cooperative and Experiential Education at the University of Waterloo.

The Manager, Career Education oversees the design and delivery of career development education and services for undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs connected primarily to two of the six faculties. Together with their team, the Manager, Career Education successfully integrates career education into the student experience (academic and co-curricular) of the University of Waterloo.

Alongside career education integration at the faculty level, the Manager, Career Education contributes to the leadership of CCD through activities such as strategic planning, communications, staff management, training and development, collaboration, and project management. Collectively, the CCD leadership oversees the design and implementation of inclusive career education services and programming for all learners.

• Support the Director, CCD to provide overall unit leadership across the department and to continually assess strategies to heighten its impact and sustainability
• Design and execute strategic career development plans to support learner career readiness within areas of oversight
• Contribute to the development of CCD wide strategic plans; ensures areas of oversight complement CCD strategic plan, CEE strategic plan, faculty-specific strategic plans and overall UW strategic plan
• Function as a member of the CCD leadership team; chair meetings and represent department on CEE and campus wide committees as required
• Collaborate with CCD leadership including other managers to ensure complementary service delivery and accessible programming across all populations
• Act as the subject matter expert on both career development and the two faculties overseen; consult across CCD to ensure career development needs across populations are met effectively
• Champion high quality service delivery that meets needs of all learners, including equity-deserving populations
• Stay current on labour market trends, career development theories, work-integrated learning, and relevant research and best practices. Decisions are evidence-based drawing on a combination of relevant literature, service trends/data and learner feedback where applicable
• Work closely with the Director, Centre for Career Development and Manager, Operations to establish and evaluate programmatic outcomes
• Set direction and optimize resourcing across team to meet objectives
• Create and maintain positive working environment for CCD staff in connection with the wider CEE
• Identify and implement continuous improvement measures to enhance unit operations and service delivery

• Lead the Career Advising steam aligned with areas of oversight, set clear and reasonable expectations, provide ongoing feedback, and establish a solid foundation for performance through comprehensive training
• Contribute to and help team…