2026 Fall/ Spring | Sessional Instructional Asst (Comms) | RSM CPS (Sept-Apr)

Req Id :  49381 

Faculty/Division :  School of Management

Department :  School of Management

Campus :  St. George (Downtown)

Exceptional oral and written communication skills and the ability to provide detailed feedback to students on these skills.

Experience providing feedback on oral communication deliverables/presentations, or teaching oral communication or presentation skills, at the university level or in a business environment.

The ideal candidate will have a background in finance, accounting, or management, excellent command of spoken and written English, and a deep interest in teaching professional skills to undergraduate students. They will also have recent industry experience related to a business or management field.

Experience teaching or working as a TA in a business program or business communications program, a demonstrated commitment to best practices in pedagogy, and experience developing students’ skills through similar initiatives to those listed above are assets.

Ideally, applicants would be available for the week of November 8 on the following days:
-    Tuesday, November 3 from 11-1
-    Wednesday, November 4 from 1-5

Support the development of BCom students’ oral communication (speaking, presenting) and other professional communication skills. Duties include facilitating group and individual appointments with students to provide feedback on both oral and written communication skills, with an emphasis on oral communication skills and presentation skills. For example:
- providing coaching and feedback on aspects of students’ oral communication and presentations, such as verbal and non-verbal delivery (pace, eye contact, intonation, structure, etc.) and how content is structured in a presentation;
- providing feedback on video-based assessments and support for effective video presentations;
- providing support and feedback on the structure, design, and presentation of slide decks and other visual aids (graphics, data visualizations);
- providing support for both individual and group assignments; 
- providing feedback on drafts of written assignments and support for building effective writing skills.

Duties may also include working with the Rotman Commerce Centre for Professional Skills team and BCom course instructors/TAs on deliverables related to the development of professional skills, and/or the development of teaching resources related to oral or written communication skills, or presentation skills. 

Duties and appointments will be delivered both online (using WCOnline and Zoom) and in-person (to be scheduled in consultation with the Communications/Presentation TA. Some in-person workshops may be required.

Class Schedule :  Courses may be online or in-person, depending on circumstances, so candidates must be available and comfortable with both.

Sessional Dates of Appointment :       Sept 1, 2026 - Apr 30, 2027

The minimum hourly rate shall be:
Sep 1, 2026 $ 55.25 plus 4% vacation pay

Notes:

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment.

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Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and LGBTQ2S+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity seeking groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position.

The University of Toronto invites all qualified applicants to make application.

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All jobs are posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrollment.

Duties of this position shall be performed at the campus on which the position is located. Where the duties are intended to be performed at another location, such other location will be specified in the posting.

Positions posted here are open to Graduate Students in the School of Graduate Studies, Postdoctoral Fellows and Undergraduate Students in the University of Toronto.

Preference in hiring shall be given to Graduate Students enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto or those who have made application to be enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto.

The hiring criteria for Teaching Assistant positions are academic qualifications, the need to acquire experience, previous experience, and previous satisfactory employment under the provisions of this collective agreement.

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