Placement Coordinator

Placement Coordinator

Date Posted: 06/08/2026
Req : 48460
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
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Existing Vacancy: Yes

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is Canada’s top faculty of pharmacy and ranked among the top in the world. We bring together Canada’s leading scientists, researchers, and educators in the heart of Toronto’s innovation and health research ecosystem. We advance professional pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science through world‑leading education and research and are recognized worldwide for our outstanding scholarship, ingenuity, creativity, and impact.

Our faculty, students, staff, and alumni come together to create a vibrant, collaborative environment rich with possibilities. We are at the forefront of redefining pharmacy’s impact in health care and developing the capacity of pharmaceutical science to pinpoint better therapeutic targets, create new ways of building medications, and ensure medication use is safe and effective. We are committed to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering an environment where each member of our community can achieve their full potential.

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The Office of Experiential Education (OEE) is responsible for ensuring the delivery and coordination of diverse experiential education experiences for students enrolled in a variety of programs at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. The OEE operates as the central hub for all activities related to experiential education and provides support to pharmacist preceptors in practice sites across the province and beyond.

This is an exciting time for OEE as the Faculty is currently undergoing a large‑scale curriculum renewal for its largest undergraduate program, the Pharm

D program, which will impact the structure and delivery of experiential programming namely, rotation lengths, and sequence of the matching process. There is an opportunity for the successful candidate to work with other faculty and staff to provide input on the experiential changes and to see them come to life as they implemented.

Under the direction of the Academic Director Experiential Education and the Assistant Director, Office of Experiential Education, you will facilitate the successful placement of students enrolled in various programs at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. As the main point of contact for an assigned group of incoming Pharmacy students, this role will prepare students for all non‑academic aspects of experiential programs.

As a student‑centered professional, the Placement Coordinator will support students via the phone, in person, email, written materials, and information sessions by providing information on placement site requirements and processes, and will also be responsible for tracking student placement documentation to ensure completeness. This role will also work closely with other staff and faculty members to resolve issues during experiential rotations and will foster and maintain positive relations with internal and external stakeholders.

As a key member of the Office of Experiential Education (OEE), you will interact and engage with preceptors and other industry partners to support the experiential process by identifying, fostering, and maintaining relationships with potential and existing employers.

• Identifying, fostering and maintaining relationships with potential and existing experiential sites to understand their site‑specific requirements, and working closely with site representatives to ensure they are adequately prepared to support student placement activities
• Drafting written materials, slides, FAQs, emails and other correspondence, to share information with students and preceptors to provide updates and support
• Facilitating information sessions to provide detailed information to students on expectations, requirements, procedures, policies and deadlines related to experiential education programs
• Providing updates to students in person, on the phone or email regarding changes to scheduled rotations, site requirements and…