Project Coordinator (Term)

Date Posted: 02/12/2026
Req ID: 46894
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM:Student Housing & Residence Life
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00059163
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 humanpotential.

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 anddiscovery. 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 theMissinihe-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 whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

As the Project Coordinator, you will play a central role in supporting the successful opening and operational readiness of a new residence building. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a highly visible, time-limited initiative that brings together planning, coordination, and implementation across a complex, fast-paced environment.

Reporting to the Director, Student Housing and Residence Life, you will work closely with and take general direction from the Senior Leadership Team, including the Assistant Directors, to support cross-functional project work. In this role, you will help ensure that priorities are aligned, timelines are met, and information flows effectively across teams.

You will support the coordination of work across multiple internal units and campus partners by tracking deliverables, supporting meetings, maintaining documentation, and following up on actions and decisions. You will also act as a connector between parallel working groups involved in the new residence build, including internal project teams, external partners supporting operational readiness, and construction-related stakeholders.

This role will be carried out alongside an already complex, year-round housing operation, requiring strong organizational skills, sound judgement, and the ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently. The position is well suited to someone who enjoys bringing structure to complex initiatives, working collaboratively across diverse groups, and seeing projects move from planning into execution.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning and implementing project phases
• Developing or modifying project schedules to expedite and/or compress the critical path to meet timelines
• Building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance
• Reviewing and assessing requirements needed to meet project timelines
• Informing project leaders of issues and roadblocks
• Checking that assigned work completed meets expected standards
• Making minor purchases
• Generating reports

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years professional experience in project coordination, including 3 years professional experience in student housing/residence operations.
• Experience developing project plans, strategic plans, or other project coordination documents.
• Experience with project design and implementation.
• Experience coordinating meeting schedules, agendas, materials, action and follow-up items.
• Experience compiling project information from various sources, compile data, and prepare complex reports and presentations for administrative and programmatic activities.
• Advanced skills and experience using Microsoft Office suite, including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Forms, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to facilitate community consultations and build stakeholder relationships.
• Flexibility and demonstrated initiative to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and changing environment.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Strong attention to detail, leadership skills, demonstrated ownership of work.
• Ability to work with diverse groups, strong interpersonal skills and political acumen, ability to build and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Critical thinking and process management skills.
• Effective collaboration, influencing, and persuasion skills and able to operate well as a project member in a dynamic environment.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.

Working hours are: Monday - Friday, 8:45am-5:00pm onsite

Contract end date is 12 months from start date

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Articulate
• Efficient
• Motivated self-learner
• Multi-tasker
• Organized
• Persuasive
• Possess a positive attitude

Closing Date: 02/23/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule:
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 13 -- $86,340. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $110,415. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services

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.