Student Assistant, Orientation

You’re driven and eager to delve into career exploration while enriching your educational journey. As a student yourself, you bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to ensuring other students are supported at the College. Whether it’s working alongside faculty, employees, and staff, or assisting your student peers, collaborating with diverse groups comes easily to you.

If this sounds like you, we need your talents! Apply to the Student Assistant position, and gain real-world knowledge, while creating meaningful career connections.

Do what you love. Be good t’s how Douglas College defines a great career. It’s a philosophy that resonates through our classrooms, our offices and our boardrooms. It inspires our students and drives us to make Douglas College one of BC’s Top Employers. We love what we do. And we’re looking for passionate, motivated people to join us in making one of Canada’s best degree-granting colleges even better.

Be a part of an institution where everyone is committed to empowering successful students, creating responsive learning environments, fostering social and environmental responsibility, and supporting healthy learning and work environments.

We offer the opportunity to do what you do best in an inclusive, collaborative and collegial environment. At Douglas, our goal is to ensure our people are valued and supported by promoting a healthy work-life balance, professional growth, and development, as well as a safe and respectful workplace.

• Transit-accessible campuses
• Hybrid work arrangements for eligible positions
• Excellent Health and Dental Benefits for eligible positions
• Defined-Benefit Pension Plan for eligible positions
• Professional Development opportunities
• Access to our Fitness Centres and Classes

Student Life is looking for a Student Assistant to assist with the planning and implementation of New Student Orientation and other transitional programming.

Responsibilities:

• Creating learning outcomes and programming through consultation with students and campus partners
• Creating an event budget and tracking spending and costs
• Coordinating supplies, facility bookings, and catering
• Assisting with recruiting, training, and managing volunteers
• Assisting with recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and training Orientation Leaders
• Supervising and providing support and guidance to Orientation Leaders, volunteers and participants during the events
• Overseeing event registration and participant communication
• Working with Student Life Communication Team to create event marketing plans

To be Successful in this Role You Will Need:

• Has been involved on campus (e.g.; is in a club or student group, has volunteered or worked as a Student Assistant)
• Has a strong knowledge of campus resources and supports
• Has volunteered or been a leader for orientation, EDGE and/or other campus events
• Has some experience or knowledge in event planning
• Has the ability to deal with issues with maturity and thoughtfulness as they arise
• Is detail-oriented, organized, responsible, professional and flexible
• Is comfortable and has the ability to work with limited supervision
• Has an open mind to cultures, practices, and sexual orientations different from your own
• Has excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Has leadership experience
• Is committed to inclusion and is culturally sensitive to the unique challenges of diverse student groups
• Has the flexibility to work at either campus (New Westminster and Coquitlam Campus)
• Has a basic working knowledge of Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

Domestic students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:

• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College throughout the work term; OR
• The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the college in the term immediately following the work term; OR
• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and…