Lecturer, Master of Social Work Program

**Date**:Apr 15, 2025

**Location**: Kitchener, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Social Work

**Department**: N/A

**Campus**: Kitchener

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:9225

**WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY**

**FACULTY OF SOCIAL WORK**

**MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM**

**Kitchener, Ontario**

**Full-time Lecturer Limited Term Appointment**
**August 1, 2025 - July 30, 2026**

**The FSW offers professional social work programs at the bachelor’s (Brantford) and master’s levels and a research-focused doctoral program. We are devoted to excellence in research, creative and critical thinking, and reflexive practice. Our students learn through traditional and innovative teaching strategies. Our Indigenous Field of Study in the MSW program embraces Indigenous-based learning. We encourage students at all levels to become active citizens of an increasingly complex and interconnected world. We fulfill our mission by advancing multi-disciplinary and marginalized forms of knowledge. Our graduates are committed to constructively engaging and working toward transforming oppressive conditions and structures and promoting well-being in individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.**

The MSW Program seeking a colleague who belongs to one or more racialized, ethnocultural groups and has lived experience of being racialized. This colleague will contribute to our courses related to micro-level practice and program development/refinement. Concerning micro-level practice courses, we are interested in applicants who have expertise in contemporary critical approaches to practice - approaches that reflect the FSW’s emphasis on anti-racism, integrative practices, empowerment, and social justice principles. Our curriculum emphasizes the integration of knowledge, theory, and practice within a framework that promotes the advancement of equity, inclusivity, reflexivity, and social justice, including the ways that lived experience of Indigenous identity, race, class, culture, gender, (dis)ability, sexual identity, and other social locations are produced and shaped by systemic, cultural, and interpersonal experiences and inequalities.

For more information about working at Laurier as well as the Faculty of Social Work, applicants are encouraged to visit the institution’s web pages:
**Responsibilities**
- Primarily teach in the full-time MSW (on-campus) graduate program.
- Teach a maximum of six MSW courses as assigned by the Dean.
- Attend on-campus meetings, office hours and in-person teaching.
- Serve on Laurier FSW and MSW Committees assigned by the Dean.
- Participate in events hosted by the MSW program and the FSW.

**Qualifications**

**The successful applicant will (1) hold a graduate degree, with at least one degree in social work, (2) have a minimum of five years of clinical practice experience with individuals, families and groups, (3) have clinical teaching experience in social work, in particular campus-based classes, though experience teaching online is also an asset, and 4) belong**to one or more racialized, ethnocultural groups and has lived experience of being racialized.** A completed or nearly completed PhD is also an asset.**

**Applicants for the position(s) are required to submit the following**:

- their curriculum vitae;
- a one-page statement about how the applicant’s personal identity(ies), commitment, and

actions seeking to promote DEI are reflected in their teaching/pedagogy, practice, and

service.

**Submission**

Applications will be accepted until **11:59 pm (EST), May 15, 2025.**

Yes, I am a current citizen or permanent resident of Canada;
No, I am not a current citizen or permanent resident of Canada

**Wilfrid Laurier University**

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Wilfrid Laurier University is a leading Canadian university renowned for its learning environment and student-focused educational experience. As a comprehensive university with more than 19,000 students, Laurier has grown rapidly in research intensity while at the same time preserving its we