Student, Security Awareness & Training Coordinator (Winter 2027)

At Sun Life, we’re driven by our Purpose: helping our  Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.  

Our student and new graduate programs offer a chance to explore Sun Life from the inside. You’ll make a difference in the lives of our customers and communities, while building the skills and experience that allow you to grow in a meaningful and rewarding way.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Director, Security Awareness and Training, the incumbent will be coordinate along with senior members of the Security Awareness and Training team,  the development, management and delivery of Sun Life’s Global Security Awareness and Training Program.   

The Security Awareness and Training Coordinator must be a dynamic individual with strong communication skills and a passion for creativity and learning. The role involves global coordination and collaboration, working with security teams to understand top security risks and trends while driving change through awareness.   In collaboration with other members of the global security department, this position will assist in delivery of a broad set of activities, including writing publications, creating, and managing website content, facilitating marketing campaigns, scheduling meetings, creating timelines and infographics; and helping to plan outreach, awareness, and educational events.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing new or identifying existing security training, education, and awareness activities appropriate for Sun Life’s global audiences.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a security awareness program that effectively motivates desired behaviors, so Sun Life employees handle data and systems in a secure manner.
• Assist in collection of metrics that can effectively measure engagement, behaviors, and impact of Sun Life’s Security Awareness and Training program.
• Coordinate and collaborate with security technical experts as needed to augment or further develop security training, education, and awareness activities.

• Coordinate with external vendors and agency partners as needed to establish quotes, production schedules, delivery, and implementation of materials.
• Use creativity to accommodate multiple learning styles into awareness and training material
• Assist in facilitation of successful learning experiences
• Develop awareness content and campaign material
• Staying abreast of changing risks and threat across security landscape globally

• Applies a basic knowledge of security and risk mitigation principles, theories, and techniques in daily work.
• General understanding of Phishing Simulation Programs.
• Demonstrates understanding and use of basic project management methodologies, including the ability to plan and coordinate activities
• Crafts messages to match capability of the audience. (Ability to contextualize technical content for campus audiences may be better.)
• Practical knowledge of different message distribution techniques to ensure end user communities understand and continually apply the required behavior necessary to reduce the 'human factors' risk.
• Desire to learn and integrate new capabilities in digital technology, such as audio, video, social media, online communities, blogs, and other web-based technologies.

Competencies:

• Recent graduate or embarking on a new career in security
• Strong organizational, time management and facilitation abilities
• Strong communication skills with an ability to think outside the box
• Self-motivated, flexible, and highly resourceful
• Strong verbal & written communication skills
• Willingness to work with geographically distributed teams
• Basic understanding of the changing security landscape
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness
• Able to make professional decisions and manage changing priorities
• Flexible, ability to pivot from one task to another to adjust to changing priorities

Notes/Unique Requirements:

May be required to travel to our various work locations:  Toronto Atria, Toronto One York, Waterloo King

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted for. The Base Pay which you will be considered for will vary depending on the Campus program you are selected for.

Eligible Sun Life employees for various Campus Graduate programs will also participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Job Category:

Temporary Employee

Posting End Date:

18/09/2026