Full-Time Term Appointment until June 01, 2029
Vacancy Status: Existing position
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Strategic Coordinator is responsible for facilitating the implementation of the University’s new Minerals and Mining Strategy. This role serves as a primary liaison between the Goodman School of Mines (GSM) internal departments (academic and administrative) and external stakeholders, including industry partners, government bodies, and educational partners. The Coordinator ensures that strategic milestones are regularly communicated with all parties, provides high level project management support, maintains and grows partnerships, and supports initiatives to secure funding for various strategic initiatives.
Strategy Implementation & Project Management
- Develop and monitor detailed work plans to track the progress of the Minerals and Mining strategy milestones.
- Collect and analyze data to produce progress reports, ensuring all initiatives align with the GSM’s overarching goals.
- Identify potential risks to strategy timelines and proactively signal issues or required adjustments to leadership.
- Manage project-specific budgets related to strategy rollout, ensuring compliance with University financial policies.
Stakeholder Relations & Liaison
- Act as a project manager for all partnership activities, supporting internal departments and external industry partners to ensure integrated collaboration.
- Facilitate "External University and Industry Relations" by organizing high-level networking events, advisory committee meetings, and strategic workshops.
- Represent the university at industry conferences and strategy-related forums to promote the Minerals and Mining initiatives.
- Collaborate with the Business Officer and Associate Director to align administrative operations with strategic outreach goals.
Strategic Communication
- Prepare briefing notes, presentations, and strategic documents for the Executive Director & Associate Director and internal and external partners.
- Work with GSM’s Promotions Coordinator and the LU Marketing team to support development of materials and reports that highlight the impact of the Minerals and Mining strategy to the broader community.
- Work with GSM’s Promotions Coordinator to ensure that information regarding the strategy is disseminated effectively across both internal and external audiences
Perform other duties as assigned.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Policy.
- A Master’s degree or Project Management Professional (PMP) designation is preferred.
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in project coordination, strategic planning, or stakeholder management, preferably within a post-secondary or mining industry environment.
- Ability to see the "big picture" and translate broad strategy into actionable project steps.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite, project management software, and database manipulation.
- Proven ability to maintain discretion and professionalism when dealing with sensitive information and high-level external partners.
- Ability to thrive in a diverse and evolving environment, working under pressure to meet critical strategic deadlines.
- Ability to work fluently (verbal and written) in both official languages, French and English, is required.
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