Joint Working Group on Administrative Support

Mandate:

The committee’s mandate shall be to identify favorable changes to the provision of administrative support to the Association membership and make concrete recommendations relating to administrative support to the Parties. The committee shall:

1. confidentially consult the Association membership about problems or issues relating to administrative support;
2. confidentially consult with administrative staff and/or their managers about problems or issues relating providing administrative support to the Association membership;
3. survey the different ways in which administrative support is provided in each faculty of the University of Ottawa and in the faculties of U15 universities;
4. prioritize types of administrative supports identified by the APUO membership as per paragraph 2a of the Letter of Understanding to enable Professors to effectively accomplish their workloads and the University to discharge its mission as a research-intensive university;
5. gather appropriate academic studies;
6. research administrative support best practices;
7. identify existing pain points and opportunities to enhance optimization of administrative and training support;
8. identify how to best enable the presence of levels of administrative and training support across academic units and Faculties to ensure Members’ can more effectively devote their working time to the effective discharge of their responsibilities of employment.

The working group is the result of a Letter of Understanding signed between the APUO and the Employer. The working group will submit their final report to the Parties no later than two (2) years after the first meeting of the working group.

Working Group Members:

Lavagnon Ika (Telfer School of Management)
Mandate: July 2025 until completion of working group mandate

Dahlia Namian (School of Social Work)
Mandate: July 2025 until completion of working group mandate

Daniel Paré (Department of Communication)
Mandate: July 2025 until completion of working group mandate