SMP - Educational Assistant

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Educational Assistant 2 role at Fort McMurray Catholic School Division

Position: SMP - 15:
Educational Assistant – EA 2

Location: Sister Mary Philips

Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: January 5th, 2026

Job Reference: SMP

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half‑time Educational Assistant in ECS.

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

• Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
• Support and/or implement teacher‑directed programming
• Work collaboratively under guidance of teacher, CST and other members of the multi‑disciplinary team
• Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc.) strategies to achieve required goals
• Able to work with students to implement and support literacy/numeracy
• Toileting routines if required
• Communicate effectively with students using age‑appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school‑specific behaviour strategies
• Work and play at student’s physical level of their activities
• Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
• Physical ability to lift and move students
• Provide school‑directed indoor and outdoor student supervision

Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders, etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language‑related disabilities may also be encountered.

The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e‑mail, Internet and MS Office.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.

Please submit resumes to with the job reference number in the subject line.