Peer Tutor

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 Peer Tutor position, and gain real-world knowledge, while creating meaningful career connections.

WHO WE ARE

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.

WHAT WE OFFER

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 funding
• Access to our Fitness Centres and Classes

Peer tutors are students who have been successful in their courses. They receive training to help students develop appropriate academic skills for the courses they tutor (such as writing, computer and math skills, study skills, and understanding of course content).

Responsibilities

• Work with students to help them develop academic success strategies for writing, communication, course content, computer skills, and study skills.
• Engage in continuous professional development and training (leading to professional certification from the College Reading and Learning Association).
• Other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, helping students schedule appointments, referring students to other resources, conducting workshops, assisting with marketing activities, and serving on internal committees.

To Be Successful in this Role You Will Need

• At least one of the following: “B” or better in subject content being tutored, or documented experience equivalent to grade of a “B” or better in subject content being tutored.
• Work with students to help them develop academic success strategies for writing, communication, course content, computer skills, and study skills.
• Engage in continuous professional development and training (leading to professional certification from the College Reading and Learning Association).
• Other responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, helping students schedule appointments, referring students to other resources, conducting workshops, assisting with marketing activities, and serving on internal committees.
• High emotional intelligence
• Ability to take initiative and exercise critical thinking
• Willingness to engage in training activities
• Ability to follow ethical practices and internal procedures
• Experience working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Office
  365
• If contacted for interview:
  Written recommendation by a content and/or skill instructor required, and two writing samples required for writing tutors

Domestic students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:
1. 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
2. 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…