Date Posted: 08/14/2025
Req ID: 44794
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Dept of Political Science
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00058080

ABOUT US:

The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.
We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts & Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world.
The Department of Political Science is a community of established and emerging scholars, ranked among the world’s best, with the largest and most prestigious PhD program in Canada. Our mission is to encourage our students to think broadly, critically and internationally about the core features of democratic and global citizenship. This is accomplished by drawing on a Canadian perspective, the University’s intellectual culture and the city’s diversity to address the most enduring questions of politics, locally and internationally.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree required.
• Minimum five years of experience in program management and governance in academic settings, with some experience supporting a global research, evaluation, and training-focused research network.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing plans and processes for managing complex global-reaching research program operations.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and fostering positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including experience cultivating successful partnerships with government, academic, and other not-for-profit organizations to advance research and training outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience developing research proposals, briefing documents, narrative and financial reports, grant applications and contracts.
• Experience with forecasting, planning, and monitoring complex budgets. Experience reconciling and reporting on complex funding accounts.
• Proven project management skills, including the ability to set priorities, leverage and adjust allocation of limited resources, meet deadlines, liaise with global stakeholders, and resolve disputes.
• Experience supervising and leading staff in a unionized environment.
• Superior communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, and proven success working across diverse cultural contexts in the Global North and Global South.
• Sound understanding of grant application procedures and granting agency requirements around topics of governance, institutions, cumulation of knowledge, and researcher-practitioner collaboration, and proven experience advising others.
• Demonstrated abilities in cultivating and fostering networks of contacts and interests.
• Demonstrated ability to problem-solve issues in a creative and effective manner.
• Exceptional ability to exercise judgement and independent decision making.
• Ability to act with tact, discretion and maintain confidentiality.

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

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Identifying, developing and executing strategies for research and development collaborations
• Building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance
• Developing project schedules including milestones, critical path, timelines, deliverables and reporting
• Keeping well-informed on research funding programs, application guidelines, policies/procedures and regulations
• Fostering and maintaining networks to build capacity and collaboration
• Forecasting, planning and monitoring multiple complex budgets and overseeing contracts, grant awards and related agreements
• Conducting detailed data analysis to inform management decision making
• Directing the activities of a single ongoing staff-appointed employee

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL BE:

• Achievement oriented
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Proactive
• Self-directed
• Team player
  This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to the University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.
  Closing Date: 08/22/2025, 11:59PM ET
  Employee Group: USW
  Appointment Type: Grant - Term
  Schedule: Full-Time