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Posting Reason:

Replacement of a regular position

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

N/A

Job Family:

Student and Campus Support

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Second Language Intensive Programs

Campus:

Hamelin Hall

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/04/30

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/05/11

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 08

Salary Range:

$64,865.00 - $81,935.00About the Faculty of Arts

The oldest and one of the biggest faculties at the University of Ottawa. The Faculty of Arts has evolved to be one of the leading faculties on campus. Now more than ever, the new economy needs thinkers, communicators, and creators. Whether you are interested in the Humanities, Languages and Literatures, or Fine and Performing Arts, the Faculty of Arts offers students an education for today's and tomorrow's workplace! The Faculty of Arts is dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for everyone.

*Job description under review

Position purpose:

Reporting to the Manager, Centre for Language Learning, the incumbent develops, organizes, promotes, and leads workshops, events, and counselling sessions to facilitate cohesion among students and cross-cultural exchanges while providing individual student support on issues related to campus and community integration. Contributes to the sector’s marketing and communication aims to ensure the timely integration of students into the Centre for Language Learning, the University of Ottawa, and the larger community.

This position is on-site full time.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Develops, organizes, promotes and leads weekly socio-cultural activities and off-campus outings while developing and following contingency plans for potential emergencies to develop a cohesive learning community within the Centre for Language Learning.

• Develops and implements various tools, such as focus groups and surveys, to measure student satisfaction with student services to initiate or recommend new services or improvements to existing ones.

• Leads, plans, develops, and evaluates pre-arrival and post-arrival program orientations and workshops for students on topics such as dealing with culture shock, mastering intercultural communication, managing intercultural conflicts, adjusting to the host culture, identifying key services on campus, and effectively transitioning into academic programs to accelerate student integration into the University of Ottawa and the surrounding community to ensure that students are properly supported.

• Serves as a first point of contact on issues related to student life, adaptation to campus and Canada, housing, volunteer and job search, and aspects of daily living in order to ensure that students have the information and support they need to flourish at the University of Ottawa.

• Leads, plans, organizes, promotes, and evaluates program events, such as welcome and closing ceremonies, to increase student satisfaction.

• Coordinates, plans, and evaluates student support activities mentoring, buddy systems, and campus/community involvement initiatives with current students and alumni. Recruits, supervises, and evaluates monitors for these activities. Develops partnerships and works closely with sectors within the University and in the surrounding community such as homestay agencies, volunteer groups, and community service organizations to ensure student integration into the campus and the community. Delivers key information and feedback to students on office procedures, deadlines and student services through presentations, regular classroom visits and multimedia tools. In collaboration with the sector’s Recruitment Coordinator, develops, monitors, and revises content for marketing and communication platforms such as webpages, newsletters, social media tools, and brochures to facilitate student integration and the efficient functioning of program operations and services.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree (ex. Education, Second Language Teaching, Psychology) or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 3 years of experience minimum coordinating and facilitating programs and events.

• Previous experience in areas related to language assessment or working with language learners is an asset.

• Sound judgment, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to counsel international students

• Ability to analyze and solve problems and to identify and recommend improvements to program services.

• Ability to work under pressure, multi-task, set priorities and organize schedules to meet firm deadlines.

• Ability to work in a team environment and to develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.

• Bilingualism (spoken and written).

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.