Project Manager

Job Profile: AAPS Salaried - Student Management, Level B

Staff – Non Union

Job Category: M&P - AAPS

Job Title:

Project Manager

Department: CFA Advisory | Student Affairs | VP Students

Compensation Range: $6,747.50 - $9,701.42 CAD Monthly. The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date:
March 15, 2026. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date:
March 12, 2028. This position is expected to be filled by promotion and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing, developing and implementing strategies for a wide range of disability-related projects. This will include reviewing medical documentation, assessing accommodations and adjudicating requests for priority housing, special consideration for admissions and academic concessions. The Project Manager will have to understand and be able to apply human rights legislation, Policy LR7 and other academic regulations.

Due to the exponential growth in these requests, the Project Manager will be developing new standardized procedures with partner units, implementing online systems and designing rubrics to streamline the assessment and response time for these requests. This position will also be responsible for advising non‑UBC students by assessing medical documentation and providing preliminary academic accommodations. This may include prospective students and other students in non‑UBC colleges/programs on the UBC Point Grey campus.

The Centre for Accessibility provides leadership on issues of accessibility for students with disabilities on the UBC Vancouver campus and facilitates disability related accommodations for members of the UBC Vancouver campus. The Project Manager will report to the Director of the Centre for Accessibility, Student Affairs and work collaboratively as a member of a team of professionals. The incumbent will work in a standard office environment at UBC Vancouver.

Some evening and weekend work is required.

• Assess and adjudicate decisions as they pertain to student special admissions requests using an intersectional approach with a focus on disability and ongoing medical conditions.
• Advise students regarding eligibility, next steps, and options.
• Evaluates and applies student development theory as well as medical and accessibility related advising rubrics by reviewing priority housing requests made based on a disability. Make decisions that have significant legal or academic impact.
• Communicates complex information, including documentation guidelines outlining disability grounds for the request by informing students about the requirements for a priority housing application.
• Work in partnership with other campus units (Housing, Enrolment Services, Academic Advising, etc.) to develop a precise understanding of housing options and availability.
• Manage the review and development of new communication guidelines to ensure the proper triage of students requesting for priority housing.
• Design and implement new systems and projects to streamline how requests are made, communicating timelines and the unit’s ability to efficiently review priority housing requests in a timely manner.
• Resolve a wide range of complex issues and escrow the most complex issues to Senior staff or resolve them in collaboration with others.
• Interpret and review…