Teaching Assistants, Graduates Service Assistants & Sessional Lecturers

Sessional Lecturer, Unit 2

Academic Unit: Guelph Humber Programs

Semester(s) of Assignment(s): Winter 2027

Number of Available Work Assignment(s) / Sections: 1

Level of Work Assignment(s): 1

Right of First Refusal (RoFR)

A Sessional Lecturer holds a RoFR (i.e., for a particular course) if they have successfully taught the course in the past six (6) semesters. A SL who holds a RoFR to this course is required to exercise their right by way of the online hiring system. Also see: What is Right of First Refusal (RoFR)?

A Sessional Lecturer Currently Holds a Right of First Refusal for this Course:

Yes

Number of Assignments that Carry the Right of First Refusal:

1

Course Number:

BADM*4310 (Business Program)

Course Format:

In-Person

Course Description:

See Course Calendar

Other Course Description or Assignment Information:

This course focuses on the unique challenges that entrepreneurs confront in financing their current and growing business ventures. Students will learn about the different sources of financing available to entrepreneurs and their relevance to different stages of the new venture cycle. The course will also cover financial planning and monitoring, the valuation of new ventures, strategies to cope with financial distress, as well as investor exit strategies. Case studies will form part of the course.-To view course outlines from previous offerings of this course (if available), please visit: https://www.guelphhumber.ca/academic-services/course-outlines- Classes held on University of Guelph-Humber campus (Toronto).

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Anticipated Duties and Responsibilities

- Orientation-Training
- Office Hours




- Preparation
- Student Consultation
- Invigilating Exams
- Grading
- Other Duties (specified below)
- Other Duties Described: Instructor may be required to participate in course website training.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

- Degree: Masters related to field
- Other
- Prior Teaching Experience: Successful teaching related to field at college or university level
- Required competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content: Solid grasp of the financing dilemmas faced by new ventures and knowledge of the different types of financing available to entrepreneurs

Preferred Qualifications

- Degree: PhD related to field
- Prior Teaching Experience: Many years of successful teaching related to contents of the course.
- Specific Preferred competence, capability, skill and ability related to course content: Candidates should provide in their application evidence of prior teaching experience and teaching success/excellence related to course content, which may include a dossier, teaching philosophy, examples of teaching innovations, course developments, evaluations of previously taught courses (e.g., peer evaluations and/or student feedback), reference letters,



and any other relevant information they wish to have evaluated by the selection committee (some documents on file in the department or program, such as UofGH Student Feedback Questionnaires of courses taught on UofG contracts, may also be used).Industry experience.

Days Required and Wages

Days and Times Required:

Period of the Work Agreement (Start Date and End Date): January 7, 2027 to April 30, 2027

Other Posting Information

Application Deadline (All postings will automatically expire at 11:59 pm on this day):

Monday, November 2, 2026

Posting Email Contact

[email protected]

Hiring Contact Information

[email protected]

University of Guelph Inclusion Statement

At the University of Guelph, fostering a culture of inclusion is an institutional imperative. The University invites and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in employment, who may contribute to further diversification of our Institution. For more information, the Office of Diversity and Human Rights (DHR) is a welcoming, safe and confidential one-stop shop for information, training and support on issues relating to diversity and human rights on our campus.

SL work assignments are unionized with CUPE3913 and their terms and conditions of work are covered by the Unit 2 Collective Agreement between the University and CUPE 3913 (email contact: [email protected]).

All applicants must be eligible to work in Canada specifically at the University of Guelph before applying for an academic work assignment. All successful applicants must perform their work in Ontario and must be able to attend on-campus in-person meetings

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