Manager, Experiential Learning and External Relations

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Reporting to the Dean Faculty of Law Civil Law Section the incumbent exercises leadership over all experiential learning programs including internships clinics co-op positions and mooting competitions. The incumbent improves the Sections visibility and outreach by updating promotional content raising funds and developing external partnerships notably within the legal profession and grant agencies. The incumbent will take part in recruiting students and professors in coordinating the awards committee and in developing strategic initiatives related to professional development.

In this role your responsibilities will include:

Experiential learning and professional skills development

• Manages all activities related to legal skills development teaching in legal clinics and co-op positions and applied instruction including all activities related to mooting competitions and other student competitions in which the Civil Law Section participates. Ensures supervision whether legal educational or administrative as required of students participating in legal clinics or experiential learning programs including the pro bono program. Responsible for correcting reports and assigning final marks for these programs.

• Serves as a subject matter expert in designing opportunities for experiential learning. Coordinates the creation of new experiential learning projects with the Universitys centralized experiential learning and career development services.

• Initiates discussions with the larger community of law professors and legal professionals working in experiential learning programs and clinics in other law faculties in Ontario in Quebec across Canada and around the world to keep abreast of best practices and innovations in the field.

External relations

• In collaboration with the dean and central resources designs and implements a strategy for developing relationships with alumni and raising funds based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal landscape its participants and its issues. Facilitates interactions and opportunities by targeting and meeting with potential donors. At the request of the dean negotiates contracts and agreements and prepares funding applications sent to external agencies such as the Barreau du Québec the Law Foundation and the Clinique de droit notarial.

• Represents the Section on several university boards and committees and other agencies including the Barreau du Québec and the Chambre des notaires du Québec.

Other areas of responsibility

• Responsible for coordinating the financial aid committee including planning and holding meetings supervising the candidate evaluation process and designing recommendations for the allocation of scholarships. Works closely with Financial Aid and Awards to ensure that relevant financial information is integrated eligibility criteria and institutional policies are met and communication with student recipients and internal and external stakeholders is transparent.

What you will bring:

• Licentiate or bachelors degree in law (LLL/JD)

• A minimum of seven (7) years experience as a legal professional with membership in good standing of a provincial or territorial bar association

• Knowledge of regulations policies and collective agreements and experience in applying and interpreting them

• Experience in project management

• Experience in working in a university environment

• Bilingualism French and English (spoken and written)

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills

• Ability to create and maintain internal and external partnerships

• Excellent skills in planning and in organizing workload coupled with a strong ability to manage priorities meet tight deadlines and closely monitor files

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 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.