Student Assistant, Institute of Urban Ecology

Overview

Student Assistant, Institute of Urban Ecology

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

Institute of Urban Ecology (IUE) at Douglas College has the unofficial motto “There is nature in my city”. Since 1984, IUE has been involved in community-based activities and projects, including environmental outreach and education programs, the SOL (sustainability, outreach and learning) Garden, citizen science projects and a seed library. The Student Assistant, IUE will work under the supervision of the IUE Coordinator to assist with organizing on-campus events, promoting workshops, preparing workshop materials, and supporting the creation and maintenance of the SOL demonstration garden.

• Assist the IUE Coordinator with workshop and event preparation (indoor work, located at the New Westminster campus), including:
• designing posters and fliers for events
• creating social media posts and e-newsletters
• preparing workshop materials
• participating in and assisting during workshops and events
• Assist the IUE Coordinator in maintaining and developing the SOL garden (outdoor garden work, located at the Coquitlam campus)

• Ability to work at both the New Westminster and Coquitlam Campuses
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in growing and maintaining plants in an outdoor garden
• Ability and willingness to do physical outdoor work (gardening) with potential hazards
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

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