Jobs at Toronto Centre
Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity where you can make a difference while meeting people all over the world? Do you have a knack for training and building connections with others in your field?
Toronto Centre is an international not-for-profit organization that receives funding from the Canadian government (GAC), Sida, and the IMF, with a mission to train financial regulators and supervisors from developing countries and emerging markets to help promote change that will lead to sound and inclusive financial systems. We are constantly recruiting experienced senior regulators and supervisors to teach our one-week training programs in countries all over the world.
Program Directors
Program directors are responsible for developing and delivering Toronto Centre's capacity building programs, which are crucial to furthering Toronto Centre's mission and upholding our vision. They work hand-in-hand with the Senior Director, Programs or Senior Director, Supervisory Guidance, to identify, negotiate, organize, design, develop, and deliver internationally recognized capacity development and technical training programs for financial sector supervisors and regulators, primarily in EMDEs, in the sectors of banking, insurance, securities, pensions, and micro-finance or cross-sectoral; in-person or virtual as required.
They must design programs that follow TC’s pedagogy of maintain TC’s premiere reputation in relevant program content, interactive learning design, and the practical application of latest research in financial supervision and regulation.
Qualifications
Toronto Centre’s program directors are all highly experienced practitioners. They possess advance degrees in economics, business, accounting, or equivalent, or an actuarial designation plus at least 15 years progressive work experience in a combination of financial regulation or supervision with experience at a central bank, supervisory agency or authority, deposit insurance institution, or at one of the Bretton Woods international financial institutions, as well as at least 10 years of senior management responsibility. They must be persuasive, diplomatic, and tactful in high pressure situations, and be able to manage a number of priorities simultaneously.
Program directors must have a deep knowledge of financial supervision and regulation in developing countries and emerging markets; policy and/or practice. Familiarity with policymaking and legislation is beneficial. Knowledge of financial stability, risk assessment, and financial crisis management, as well as the program learning process, including preparation and control of budgets. They have sound research methodologies, and skill in team leadership, coordination, and distance communications.
For the full list of qualifications, please review the complete job description.
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We are always looking for experts in the six core sectors of our programs: banking, insurance, securities, pensions, microfinance, and microinsurance.
Program directors are hired on a long-term, permanent basis. If you’re interested in joining our team as a program director, please send your C.V., along with a brief introductory letter to
Program Leaders
At the heart of Toronto Centre programming is our commitment to ensure that all courses are practical, interactive, and action-oriented. We want our program leaders not only to present theory but also to interact with participants and engage them in group discussions and activities to reinforce concepts. The opportunity to learn from interaction with program leaders who have financial regulation and supervision experience and have lived through failures, crises and major changes is one of the hallmarks of our programs.
Qualifications
Toronto Centre’s program leaders are all highly experienced practitioners. Program leaders are typically drawn from respected regulatory and supervisory agencies and international financial institutions and come from all different regions of the world. All program leaders must understand the challenges faced by financial sector regulators and supervisors to help the participants address these challenges in their jurisdictions. Program leaders should have a minimum of ten years of experience working in financial regulation and supervision, including at least five of those years in senior management and bring expertise in a particular topic, such as crisis preparedness, financial inclusion, market conduct, macroprudential surveillance, AML/CFT, etc.
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We are always looking for experts in the six core sectors of our programs: banking, insurance, securities, pensions, microfinance, and microinsurance.
Program leaders are hired on a short-term, contract basis. If you’re interested in joining our team as a program leader, please send your C.V., along with a brief introductory letter and a completed application form (MS Word, 107kb) to