You will play a key role in supporting the marketing team with both creative design and marketing efforts. This dual role involves developing visual concepts, designing marketing collateral for both print and digital platforms, assisting with marketing campaigns, events, and day-to-day tasks. Your ability to ensure consistency with brand guidelines and quality standards is essential to supporting the overall marketing strategy.

• For this position, we currently have the option of working totally in office or in a hybrid model. This position may initially require some in-office time mixed with work from home during the onboarding phase.

Creative Design & Visual Communication

• Conceptualize, design, and develop marketing materials such as advertisements, posters, in-store signage, and promotional assets for print and web.
• Ensure brand consistency across all visual and marketing materials.
• Create and design Power Point presentations, infographics, and other branded collateral for internal and external stakeholders.
• Edit and retouch product and lifestyle photography, ensuring quality images for digital and print use.
• Assist with photography shoots and manage digital assets.
• Support the creation of fillable forms, certificates, and videos for website and social media.

Marketing & Social Media Support

• Assist in the creation and scheduling of social media content for platforms such as Linked In and the company website.
• Design digital assets (banners, sidebars, carousels) for e Commerce and website use, ensuring brand alignment.
• Design and deploy enewsletters.
• Collaborate with the marketing team on event planning, including designing invitations, creating ads and signage, and coordinating logistics and giveaways.
• Source branded merchandise, office supplies, and premium items for marketing purposes.

Project & Administrative Support

• Coordinate marketing projects from start to finish, managing multiple tasks and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Assist with administrative tasks, such as responding to customer and cross-departmental inquiries and providing updates on project progress.
• Support the marketing team on special projects and initiatives as required, contributing in a creative and collaborative manner.

The Uof T Bookstore provides many important goods and services to the University of Toronto community. We operate five stores across the three U of T campuses (St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough, Faculty of Law, and St. Mike’s Cafe) and a large online shop that ships Canada-wide and internationally. We offer a wide selection of course materials including new, used, digital, and custom course pack options, all competitively priced with a student budget in mind. We also carry U of T–branded clothing and merchandise, gifts, trade books, technology products, school supplies, and more.

University of Toronto Press (UTP) is one of the largest university presses in North America, publishing landmark scholarship since 1901. Each year UTP releases over 200 new scholarly, course, and general interest books in both print and e Book format and over 45 journals. In addition, UTP manages the distribution for over 200 publishers and imprints in Canada, the US and around the world, with warehouses in Toronto ON and Buffalo NY. UTP also runs all of the University of Toronto Bookstores across the three main campuses, serving over 95,000 students and 15,000 faculty. For more information, please visit utorontopress.com.

As the leading university press in Canada and one of the largest in North America, we acknowledge our role and responsibility in effecting positive change. With this, we seek to continuously improve the diversity and representation of our publications and the clients we represent, as well as within the makeup of our organization. With strong commitment from leadership, we are collectively bringing forward change across the organization, both within our company culture and in our publishing, distribution, and retail endeavours. UTP operates with mutual trust, respect, and integrity as we strive to identify and remove barriers. We are committed to making UTP a great place to work by addressing and challenging systemic inequities.

We truly thank all applicants for their interest in joining the Press, only those candidates considered for an initial interview will be contacted.

The University of Toronto Press encourages applications from all qualified candidates. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact Human Resources at 416.978.2239 ext. 2255.

This is a current vacancy within our organization.

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