Student Recruitment Communications Officer

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:

This role supports the development and implementation of integrated digital communications strategies that attract and engage prospective students, working closely under the guidance of the Manager, Student Recruitment Communications. The Student Recruitment Communications Officer creates and coordinates digital content across print, web and social media platforms, ensuring consistentmessaging, branding, and user experience aligned with recruitment goals. The position collaborates with internal partners across the University to deliver coordinated campaigns, optimize digital assets through SEO and data-driven insights, and enhance website functionality and content. Additionally, the role contributes to campaign analysis, produces promotional materials, fosters engagement with prospective student communities online, and provides guidance on digital communications best practices to support effective and measurable recruitment outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing digital communication plans across a broad range of marketing/communication channels
• Advising on best practices and strategies to maximize digital and print communication initiatives
• Analyzing metrics to identify trends
• Liaising with colleagues across the University to ensure consistent and/or integrated messaging
• Analyzing andrecommending options for the development of visual expression/layout of print and digital assets
• Producing digital and printed promotional and outreach materials
• Maintaining information on digital platforms
• Resolving minor complaints about content and technical errors, referring larger issues when appropriate

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications or acceptable combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum four years of relevant experience in communications and outreach in a university setting.
• Experience developing design and layout of print and digital communications.
• Experience creating digital and printed promotional and outreach materials.
• Experience with Client Relationship Management (CRM) database.
• Experience with social media technologies, including content management and web platforms such as Wordpress and Drupal, image editing, RSVP management toolsand survey creation tools.
• Demonstrated experience developing relationships and interacting effectively with diverse prospect and applicant populations.
• Experience with videography and photography tools and utilizing applications for producing content.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to work in collegial manner with applicants, students, office colleagues, staff and faculty.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Initiative and creativity required, along with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational, problem solving and time management skills
• Solid analytical and investigative skills are critical.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends during peak periods.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Efficient
• Problem solver
• Resourceful

Closing Date: 07/07/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type : Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $76,577. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $97,928. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Communication/Media/Public Relations

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.

Job descriptions are available upon request for internal applicants.