Jobs at University of Waterloo

Advises students and alumni on career planning, employment, further education, co-op, and work-integrated learning. Provides individual advising, workshops, presentations, events, and career resources; supports career exploration, job searches, interviews, and education applications. Builds relationships with faculty and campus stakeholders, develops inclusive career programming and curricula, researches labor market and admissions information, and coaches advisors and student leaders.

Provides client-facing IT support and manages computing environments for the School of Computer Science. Responsibilities include resolving technical issues, deploying and maintaining hardware and software across servers, desktops, and laboratory systems, managing network services, documenting procedures, monitoring performance, and developing technology solutions for academic and research needs.

Develops and delivers communications content across digital, print, social media, web, newsletters, and presentations. Coordinates communications projects, timelines, approvals, stakeholders, and deliverables while applying brand, accessibility, and editorial standards. Analyzes audience feedback and channel metrics to evaluate effectiveness, identify trends, and recommend improvements. The role also supports communications planning, stakeholder engagement, content management, and continuous improvement within the Faculty of Engineering.

The Development Officer leads corporate, foundation, and individual fundraising for the Faculty of Engineering. Responsibilities include prospect identification, portfolio management, donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, proposal development, fundraising campaigns, database maintenance, relationship building, volunteer management, and coordination with alumni and donor-relations teams. The role also creates fundraising materials, supports student initiatives, provides functional direction to staff, and coordinates special projects.

Provides client support and manages computing environments for the University of Waterloo’s Computer Science school. Responsibilities include troubleshooting technology issues, acquiring and deploying hardware and software, administering servers, desktops, laboratory systems, and network services, maintaining system documentation, monitoring performance, and developing technological solutions for academic and research needs. The role also manages technical projects and recommends system and process improvements.

The Data Analyst develops reports, dashboards, forecasts, models, queries, and analytics from complex student information systems to support admissions, enrollment, academic progression, funding, and institutional planning. The role maintains data integrity, standardizes definitions and reporting processes, supports Power BI and data-lake environments, responds to stakeholder inquiries, and communicates complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences. It also leads analytics projects, collaborates with university partners, and recommends improvements to data tools and processes.

Provides comprehensive administrative and operational support to senior leaders in the Secretariat. Responsibilities include calendar and meeting coordination, records management, purchasing, expense reconciliation, travel arrangements, communications, website updates, onboarding, technology and inventory oversight, and project tracking. The role also supports governance activities, maintains confidentiality, coordinates with campus partners, and ensures compliance with institutional administrative and financial policies.

Leads the University’s Security Operations Centre, overseeing security monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence, forensics, network access controls, compliance scanning, and risk mitigation. Manages and develops the information security operations team, establishes operational priorities and processes, coordinates incident response across IT stakeholders, advises senior leadership on security risks, and drives continuous improvement of security capabilities and service delivery.

Manages the School’s administrative operations, financial planning, budgeting, purchasing, payroll, expense reconciliation, facilities and space planning, health and safety coordination, and staff administration. Provides operational support to leadership, oversees administrative systems and procedures, monitors compliance with university policies, coordinates staffing and performance management, and contributes to planning, committees, continuous improvement, and special projects.

Provides front-line IT support and client service for the Faculty of Arts, resolving computing and technology issues, documenting requests, escalating complex problems, and maintaining technical knowledge. Supports administrative, teaching, and research computing environments, develops scalable solutions, communicates with technical and non-technical audiences, and specializes in system administration or related technology areas.

Supports full-cycle, high-volume staff recruitment for university client groups. Responsibilities include intake meetings, job advertising, resume screening, behavioral interviews, panel coordination, candidate sourcing, offer preparation, candidate communications, ATS data management, and recruitment compliance. The role builds candidate pools, advises hiring managers, promotes equitable hiring practices, and represents the University at external networking and recruitment events.

The Senior Workday Architect governs the university’s Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, and Financial Management. Responsibilities include defining target-state architecture, configuration and integration standards, security and data designs, reporting architecture, and governance processes. The role leads complex solution design, reviews integrations and security controls, supports implementations and releases, advises leadership, assesses risks, and mentors Workday technical and functional specialists.

Provides senior labour relations expertise to university leaders on complex employee relations, grievances, investigations, collective agreement interpretation, bargaining, risk management, and labour-management relationships. The role develops strategic recommendations, represents the institution in dispute resolution, supports policy and process improvement, and strengthens leadership capability. It requires advanced consultation, negotiation, investigation, conflict-resolution, analytical, and relationship-management skills in a unionized environment.

Supports employers, students, and staff through co-op employment processes. Manages employer relationships, evaluates job eligibility, matches roles to student programs, supports hiring growth and diversity initiatives, maintains accurate records, contributes to recruitment planning and continuous improvement, and mentors or trains colleagues and co-op students.

Facilitates and coaches Scrum teams, supports continuous improvement, manages backlogs and Scrum events, and leads complex operational and strategic projects. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, schedules, resources, risks, reporting, governance, and stakeholder communications. Advises management, supports change initiatives, improves business processes, and promotes organizational effectiveness across departmental and institutional initiatives.

Manage the financial administration of research accounts, including account setup, budgeting, reporting, invoicing, variance analysis, audits, reconciliations, and account closeout. Advise researchers and administrators on sponsor requirements and university policies, track deadlines, maintain documentation, and coordinate with sponsors, auditors, collaborating institutions, and internal stakeholders.

Analyzes, manages, and models Faculty of Mathematics data to support decision-making, planning, budgeting, and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include data cleaning, SQL querying, Python automation, dimensional modeling, statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modeling, machine learning assessment, dashboard and report development, and stakeholder consultation. The role ensures data quality, privacy, documentation, and effective communication of analytical findings and recommendations.

Manages Campus Housing’s financial operations, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, internal controls, audits, accounting processes, and long-term financial planning. Provides financial analysis and dashboards to support management decisions, ensures compliance with university policies and accounting principles, oversees data integrity and reporting practices, collaborates with Finance and campus partners, and supervises staff.

Supports organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, project communications, training, readiness, and user adoption for the University of Waterloo’s Workday Financial Management implementation. The role facilitates workshops and training, develops communications and learning materials, coordinates readiness activities, manages stakeholder feedback and change champion networks, tracks adoption metrics, maintains project documentation, and reports risks, actions, and progress within formal project governance structures.

Leads the Faculty of Engineering’s IT strategy, operations, governance, infrastructure, enterprise applications, information security, research computing, instructional technologies, and user services. Oversees IT personnel, budgets, service delivery, organizational design, risk management, compliance, stakeholder engagement, technology transformation, and continuous improvement. Serves as the senior liaison between Engineering and institutional IT leadership, aligning Faculty technology priorities with University governance and strategic objectives.