Term Certain Instructor

Position Information

**Job Title**
- Term Certain Instructor - Fire and Forest Management

**Appointment Type**
- Term Certain

**Position Dates**
- January 1 - May 31, 2026

**Hours per week/FTE**
- 14 instructional hours per week

**About the Position**
- 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 Fire and Forest Management.
- Prepare and team teach 1**section and 2 labs of RRM 2264 Forest Management course**:7** hours per week.
- Prepare and teach 1 section and 2 labs of RRM 2299 Fire Management course**:7** hours per week. Supervise the course field trips.
- Demonstrate commitment to professional development.
- Contribute to the goals and activities of the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences.
- Support inclusiveness and diversity through embracing the college’s policies on indigenization and internationalization.

**Position Details**
- Responsibilities of all faculty in the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences include:

- Deliver courses on campus in the face-to-face classroom setting and supervise field trips.
- Delivering courses congruent with established course curricula and program outcomes.
- Supporting the success of students with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds and learning styles.
- Assessing student learning in ways that both facilitate learning and ensure achievement against appropriate academic standards.
- Contributing to course and program curriculum development and renewal.
- Working collegially within department, School, or Polytechnic committees and project teams.

**Required Qualifications**
- 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 biological science, or a combination of related education and professional experience may be considered.
- Experience with sustainable forest resource management with emphasis on identification, inventory and assessment methods, ecosystem and landscape level processes, silvicultural systems, harvest planning and woodland operations.
- Experience with wildfire management with emphasis on fire weather, fire behaviour, wildlife control, fire ecology, and the use of fire as a prescriptive management tool.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Demonstrated proficiency with learning management systems, online teaching tools, and educational technology.
- Must have a strong commitment to effective teaching and possess a demonstrated ability.
- Must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills necessary to contribute positively to a team environment.

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

**Working Here**

**Culture of Care**
- A **Culture of Care**at Lethbridge Polytechnic embraces a workplace that both 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.

**Why choose Lethbridge and Lethbridge Polytechnic**
- Lethbridge Polytechnic is learner-focused, with an emphasis on experiential and flexible learning experiences and work-integrated learning.
- We have a strong connection to our community and the land. We also promote a work environment that supports professional development and employee wellness, including flexible work arrangements and schedules that allow for work-life balance. In addition, we prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion across all areas of our campus community.

Posting Detail Information

**Posting Number**
- T25-00433

**Open Date**
- 08/15/2025

**Close Date**
- 09/12/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- No

**Special Instructions to Applicants