Student Assistant – Student Leadership, Student Life

Overview

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 Student Assistants to assist with the creation and implementation of student leadership and volunteering programming as well as working to support other related Student Life events and activities.

• Supporting the creation and implementation of all student leadership programming and events
• Assist with creating learning outcomes and programming through consultation with students and campus partners
• Overseeing event registration and participant communication
• Meet regularly with Student Life Coordinator

• Has been a Douglas College student for at least one academic year
• Has been involved on campus (e.g.; is in a club or student group, has volunteered or worked as a student assistant)
• Has some experience or knowledge in event planning
• Ability to deal with issues with maturity and thoughtfulness as they arise
• Detail-oriented, organized, responsible, professional and flexible
• Comfortable and able to work with limited supervision
• Open mind to cultures, practices, and sexual orientations different from your own
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Committed to inclusion and culturally sensitive to the unique challenges of diverse student groups
• Flexibility to work at either campus (New Westminster and the Coquitlam Campus)
• Basic working knowledge of Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point
• Experience in event planning (desired)

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 maintain a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. throughout the work term; OR
• The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in…