(sessional Lecturer) Project Management - APS1001H Second Subsection

Date Posted:
03/10/2025
Req ID: 42116
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
Department: APSC Admin. Units
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

Position: Sessional Lecturer I (1 position available)

Course title and code: APS1001H: Project Management

Course description: Project management has evolved from being an accidental job title into being a chosen profession with career paths and a body of knowledge. This course covers most of the knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute: integration, scope, cost, time, risk, human resources, procurement and communications management. We take a practical, applied approach, with the “PMBOK Guide” textbook, in-class exercises, and a team paper on “lessons learned” from an actual project. This is a completely asynchronous online course.

Estimated Enrolment: Up to 70-100 students

Estimated TA support: TBA

Class schedule: One 3-hour lecture per week.

Sessional date of appointment: Summer Session – July – August 2025

Salary: Minimum level of pay is $9,457.89 (Sessional Lecturer I), which includes vacation pay, and may increase depending on applicant’s level of experience and suitability for the position.

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a minimum of 10 years of project management experience in leading engineering projects and hold a PMP certification. Additionally, applicants must have experience using Microsoft Project and teaching the concepts: Integration Management, Stakeholder Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Communications Management, Procurement Management, Risk Management, and Human Resource Management. Skills in teaching students techniques that increase value to organizations and the marketplace are essential. A strong record of presenting lectures and the ability to effectively translate this skill into an online format is required. The applicant must also have experience teaching the course topic or a similar subject.

Brief description of duties:

Delivers lectures for online delivery, prepares midterm quiz, final quiz, attends Q and A sessions, answers student questions, oversees project updates and marking (with TAs, if applicable).

To indicate interest in this position, please complete the CUPE UNIT 3 application form, downloaded from:
gradstudies.engineering.utoronto.ca/files/2022/08/UNIT-3-Application-Form.pdf and submit to the Vice Dean Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
44 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4, Email: # Date:03/24/2025, 11:59PM EDT

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.