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Classroom Demonstrator
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Overview:
**Term: 1 year.**
The Classroom Demonstration and Outreach Coordinator manages, designs and develops new demonstrations for the Department, in both its teaching and outreach activities. This includes responsibility for the recommendation, development and acquisition of new instruments and teaching aids in collaboration with teaching faculty. This demonstration equipment, used in lectures and undergraduate labs, is an essential component of the undergraduate teaching program.
**Responsibilities**:
Classroom Demonstrations
- Develop curriculum relevant sequences of demonstrations for the teaching activities of the department
- Design and procure teaching demonstrations, both independently and at the request of teaching faculty
- Develops and manages yearly equipment and supplies budget
- Arrange times with faculty to review and practice using demonstration equipment; in some cases, must present the demonstration in class
- Maintains demonstration equipment, performing periodic inspections and minor repairs, as necessary
- Organize, store, manage inventory and sign-out system of demonstration equipment
- Move and set up equipment across campus, as needed
- Liaise with other university departments to supply them with technical advice and equipment to support teaching, where possible
Community Outreach Activities
- Develops, selects, and supports curriculum relevant workshops for Science Open House, Physixx: Girls Matter and Physics Lab Days, working with Outreach committees and liaisons
- Develops and manages yearly equipment and supplies budget
- Acquire, manage and maintain all equipment and instrumentation for Outreach events; Instrumentation may be purchased as-is, or may be highly specific equipment requiring design and fabrication using the machine and electrical shops within Science Technical Services
- Acquire, prepare, transport, set up, and return all materials for events
- Inspect equipment, arrange for storage, replacement and/or repairs at the end of each session and presentation period
- Recruit, organize and train students/ faculty on the equipment and activities
- Provide technical support during all outreach events
Teaching Labs Support
- Manages and leads experiment change overs for all equipment used in the undergraduate teaching laboratories
- Aids in the development and improvement of lab experiments
- Leads the development of electronic teaching resources, as directed by the Lab Director
- Maintains and updates instructions for laboratory demonstrations (lab manuals)
- Maintains and inspects undergrad laboratory equipment; repair, replace or, arrange for any necessary repairs
- Organizes lab presentation spaces, prep rooms and storage rooms
- Proctors laboratory sections and exams, as needed
- Other duties, as needed
Departmental Support
- Serves as back up for all communications duties and initiatives, including website, SCInage and newsletter support
- Daily oversight of staff and co-op students who are placed on outreach, and demonstration duties
- Departmental AV liaison
- Provide assistance of the technical nature, as needed
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
- Equivalent combination of education and/or experience will be considered
- 2+ years of experience supporting teaching activities through the development of classroom demonstrations or related activities preferred
- 2+ years of experience managing and developing community outreach activities preferred
- Working knowledge of various demonstration equipment - ranging from simple pre-packaged purchased items to highly complex custom designs requiring extensive in house fabrication using machine shops and electronics shops
- Excellent problem solving abilities
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills required for presenting at community events
- Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion and work independently with mínimal supervision within a fast-paced, deadline driven, multi-tasking environment
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Office
- Knowledge of WCMS and SCInage, preferred
- Some weekend work required for outreach initiatives
Equity Statement:
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within our Office of Indigenous Relations.
