Instructional Assistant

**Regular/Temporary**
- Temporary

**Job Title**
- Instructional Assistant (IV) - School of Earth, Environment & Society

**Job ID**
- 71359

**Location**
- Central Campus

**Open Date**
- 08/12/2025

**Job Type**
- Short Term Employee

**Close Date**
- 08/22/2025

**Employee Group**
- Unifor Unit 1, Staff

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- Earth, Environment & Society

**Salary Grade/Band**
- Grade 10

**Salary Range**
- $32.81 - $52.36 (hourly)

**Contract Duration**
- 8.5 Months

**Hours per Week**
- 35

**Posting Details**

**Schedule**
- Hours of work are anticipated to be 7 hours per day, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, including a 60-minute unpaid lunch period. The University is supportive of exploring flexible work arrangements that effectively balance operational needs and employee interests.

**Education Level**
- Master's degree in a relevant field of study.

**Career Level**
- Requires 3 years of relevant experience.

**Job Description #**
- JD00682

**Anticipated Fill Date**
- Mid-August

**Unit/Project Description**:
The School of Earth, Environment & Society is seeking an Instructional Assistant (IV) to support our in-person and online Environment & Society courses. This is a 8-month position from mid-August 2025 to early-May 2026.

**Job Summary**:
Responsible for providing pedagogical and technical support to instructors, teaching assistants and students. Designs and modifies laboratory experiments, tutorial sessions, and lesson plans in accordance with the curriculum priorities of the instructor within an academic unit, department, or faculty. Forecasts operating budgets for lab and tutorial courses. Ongoing responsibility for supervising ten (10) or more Teaching Assistants.

**Purpose and Key Functions**:

- Design, adapt, and modify laboratory experiments and tutorial sessions.
- Modify and adapt test procedures and equipment to meet specialized requirements.
- Forecast budgets and proposed expenditures for new program proposals, and for operating lab and tutorial courses.
- Write and design lesson plans in accordance to the curriculum priorities of the instructor.
- Provide formal supervision to teaching assistants and other part-time staff.
- Communicate curriculum to teaching assistants that is to be covered in tutorial sessions.
- Review current educational research literature to ensure curriculum follows best practices in teaching, education and learning.
- Organize and coordinate teaching laboratories, computer-based instruction, and tutorial classes accordingly.
- Introduce and demonstrate labs or tutorial sessions to students.
- Tutor students in programs and assist students with lab work.
- Train others on proper lab techniques, operating laboratory equipment, and on running efficient and effective tutorial sessions.
- Compose test questions and assignments, and prepare solution sheets for review by others.
- Assist staff with the preparation and set up of equipment and supplies for laboratories and tutorial sessions.
- Organize and monitor the on-line learning environment for courses in an academic unit, department, or faculty by ensuring that the appropriate course content information is made available to students.
- Write a variety of documents such as procedure manuals, correspondence, and reports.
- Prepare a variety of lecture materials including presentation slides and handouts.
- Provide guidance, advice, and solutions to teaching assistants when resolving student inquiries.
- Provide teaching assistants with appropriate teaching material as specified by the instructor.
- Ensure accurate grading of assignments is completed by teaching assistants and report discrepancies to the instructor.
- Correspond and meet with students to address concerns related to the course including, but not limited to, the resolution of contested grades.
- Liaise with instructors, teaching assistants, and students to ensure information within the academic unit is understood by all parties.
- Exchange technical and scientific information amongst colleagues.
- Operate, adjust, and maintain a variety of equipment and instruments.
- Troubleshoot equipment and perform minor repairs. Ensure major repair requests are escalated to the appropriate area.
- Assign tutorials to teaching assistants and arrange teaching assistant office hours.
- Section classes at the beginning of the year, dealing with all scheduling changes, room reservations, and scheduling conflicts.
- Assess the need for laboratory equipment and provide recommendations for the acquisition of materials and equipment.
- Calibrate laboratory equipment according to established calibration standards.
- Collect, track, and safeguard student marks and tests.
- Calculate student marks and submit final grades to appropriate areas.
- Input, maintain, and verify information in a variety of databases and spreadsheets.
- Pipette a variety of reagents and media.
- Prepare chemical reagents and biomedical media according to formulae and ass