Sessional Instructor – Environmental Science

Sessional Instructor – Environmental Science

Job Title Sessional Instructor – Environmental Science

Appointment Type Sessional

Position Dates August 31 - December 22, 2026

Hours per week/FTE 4 – 8 hours

Lethbridge Polytechnic offers a student-centered environment that provides practical and innovative learning experiences. The Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences (CBAS) delivers a range of certificate, diploma, degree, and university transfer programs, including Business Administration, Administrative Office Professional, General Arts and Science, Agriculture Science, Environmental Science, and Academic Upgrading, together with service courses to students in many other Lethbridge Polytechnic programs.

The Centre defines itself through excellence in teaching and learning, fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in all activities: development and renewal of courses and programs, approaches to teaching and learning, and scholarly activity and community engagement by students and faculty. CBAS currently seeks a faculty member with superior preparation and ongoing engagement in their academic and professional fields, passion for teaching, and willingness to commit to making excellence in teaching their primary focus.

Specifically, we wish to appoint a sessional faculty with background, expertise, and proven ability to teach in the Renewable Resource Management Diploma.

• Prepare and teach on-campus lab sections of RRM 2259 Principles of Fishery Science
  : 2 labs per week.
• Supervise the course field trips.
• Demonstrate commitment to professional development and contribute to the goals and activities of the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences.
• Support inclusiveness and diversity through embracing the Polytechnic’s policies on Indigenization and internationalization.
• Collaborate with course theory instructor.
• Deliver courses on campus in the face-to-face classroom setting.
• Deliver courses congruent with established course curricula and program outcomes.
• Support the success of students with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds and learning styles.
• Assess student learning in ways that facilitate learning and ensure achievement against appropriate academic standards.
• Contribute to course and program curriculum development and renewal.
• Work collegially within department, School, or Polytechnic committees and project teams.

Post-secondary teaching experience with direct experience teaching curriculum/learning outcomes equivalent to university transfer courses.

Minimum educational background is a master’s degree in environmental science or an equivalent combination of education and applied experience in a relevant discipline such as ecology, aquatic ecosystems, aquaculture.

Proficiency in field-based wildlife research methods such as live trapping, population surveys, species identification, radio-telemetry, and habitat assessment.

Experience leading field-based learning activities in post-secondary settings or comparable environments.

Familiarity with Canadian wildlife species, particularly mammals and birds commonly encountered in Alberta’s grasslands, parklands, and foothills.

• Demonstrated proficiency with learning management systems, online teaching tools, and educational technology.
• Strong commitment to effective teaching and demonstrated ability.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills necessary to contribute positively to a team environment.

Commensurate with education and experience according to the Faculty Collective Agreement.

Culture of Care at Lethbridge Polytechnic embraces a workplace that protects and empowers employees by creating an environment that promotes psychological, cultural and physical safety. All employees play an important role in building a safe and supportive campus dedicated to learning and growing.