As an institution committed to art, design, digital media and related scholarship, OCAD University (OCAD U) recognizes the profound and essential value that diversity brings to the creation, reception and circulation of creative practices and discourse. OCAD U understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are essential to, and enrich the institution’s core mission and vision as an art and design university with a local and global scope.

As an employer committed to employment equity, we encourage applications from members of equity-deserving communities including women, racialized persons, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

OCAD U is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier free experience to applicants with accessibility needs. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact People & Culture for more information or refer to OCAD U’s Accommodation in Employment for Persons with Disabilities policy.

You are invited to complete the following Applicant Questionnaire. Your response is voluntary and the information that you provide is confidential.  The data collected is used to inform our recruitment and outreach practices and may be used for the purpose of hiring under special programs as outlined in applicable job postings. This information is collected through People & Culture and, should you become employed at OCAD U, will not be included in your employment file. Where the data is being used to inform hiring under special programs as highlighted in specific job postings, the Hiring Committee will be notified of your eligibility for the special program but will not be provided with your specific questionnaire response(s). To learn more about the University's special program under the Ontario Human Rights Code, please visit the Ontario Human Rights Commission's Special Programs page. 

By completing this voluntary questionnaire, you are confirming that all the information provided is true and acknowledge that your response will apply to all job postings to which you've applied.

Definitions
Indigenous Peoples

The term “Indigenous Peoples of North America / Turtle Island” includes persons who are First Nations (Status, Non-Status), Inuit or Métis, as well as Native American, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Peoples.

The UN definition of the term "Indigenous" includes the following considerations:

• Self-identification as Indigenous at the individual level


• Historical continuity with pre-colonial and/or pre-settler societies


• Strong link to territories and surrounding natural resources


• Distinct social, economic or political systems


• Distinct language, culture and beliefs


• Form non-dominant groups of society


• Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and


• communities AND/OR


• Recognized by Indigenous community as a member

Racialized Persons

Individuals (other than Indigenous Peoples, defined above) who self-identify as non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour, regardless of place of birth or citizenship.

Women

Individuals who self-identify as women.

Persons with Disabilities

Individuals who have a long term or chronic physical, mental, emotional/psychiatric or learning disability, which may result in a person experiencing disadvantage or barriers concerning any or all aspects of employment.
Based on the definitions as outlined above, do you self-identify as: