Director, Office of the Dean
$106,705–$177,843 year
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Facilitate, implement, and coordinate Faculty-wide academic, governance, and strategic priorities as the Dean's principal advisor on institutional policy and executive decision-making. Develop, implement, and evaluate governance frameworks, administrative policies, and operational processes to strengthen organizational effectiveness and ensure compliance with accreditation standards. Manage highly confidential matters requiring exceptional judgment, diplomacy, and discretion while supporting cyclical program reviews, new program approvals, and quality assurance processes. Provide direct executive administrative support to the Dean and Associate Deans when requested. This term position for six months reports to the Dean within the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto.
Required Qualifications
- University degree in a related field
- A minimum of five years of progressive experience in academic administration, governance, policy development, quality assurance, accreditation, strategic planning, executive advisory; and executive support within a post-secondary environment
- Demonstrated leadership
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Political acuity
- Project leadership and management expertise
- Committee management
- The ability to manage highly confidential matters
- Demonstrated experience in liaising with senior administrators
- Responding to and handling matters of a complex, confidential and highly sensitive nature
- Superior oral and written communications skills
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex multiple projects to completion
- The ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks and responsibilities
- The ability to assimilate and interpret significant amounts of information
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, various scheduling software products
- Self-starter
- Detail-oriented
- High analytical and negotiation ability
- Flexibility to work in a consensus-driven environment
- Political sensitivity
- The ability to work effectively with high-level staff across the University system and in outside organizations
- A keen understanding of the policy and procedures of governance
- Strong integrative skills related to understanding cross-functional implications and inter-relationships of issues and decisions
- Integrity
- Meticulous approach to work
- Ability to deal with confidential situations
- Confidentiality
- Tact and diplomacy
- The ability to influence others over whom there is no direct reporting relationship to achieve tasks and functional responsibilities by means of esteem, credibility and relationship-building skills
Desired Qualifications
- An advanced degree
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
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