Instructor, Forestry Nrt Program

**Competition Number**
- P16978

**Posting Title**
- Instructor, Forestry NRT Program (Casual 2025-2026)

**Classification**
- Instructor

**Location**
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic Prince Albert Campus

**Other Location(s)**
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic Prince Albert Campus

**Building**
- Prince Albert Campus, Technical Building

**Other Building**

**Date Posted**
- 09/10/2025

**Closing Date**
- 09/30/2025

**JIQ #**

**Start Date**
- 09/22/2025

**End Date**
- 06/30/2026

**Open Until Filled**
- No

**Ongoing**
- No

**Category of work**
- Casual

**Bargaining Unit**
- Faculty Association

**Hours of Work**
- 7.25 hours per day, To be Assigned

**Salary Range**
- As per instructional grid

**Temporary Market Stipend**

**Incumbent**

**Total Assigned days (AC) / Total Hours per biweekly pay**
- casual up to 25 days

**Posting Status**
- Open
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic considers the diversity of our workforce to be one our leading strengths and greatest assets. Our employee diversity enhances our ability to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. Currently, approximately 20% of our students are Indigenous. A continued emphasis on the development of a representative workforce is one of Sask Polytech’s strategic priorities and, as an organization, we are making significant efforts to attract and retain Indigenous employees.

**Job Duties/Qualifications, Skills and Abilities(QSA)**:

- Job Duties

**Job Duties**
- The instructor will be responsible for program delivery, student management and support
primarily in the field of forestry. Instructors must have excellent field skills, recent/relevant field
experience, strong interpersonal skills, experience and/or aptitude for delivering post secondary
technical programming, and the ability to work as a member of collegial working group of professional natural resource management instructors.
1. Preparing and delivering lessons, lectures, and demonstrations.
2. Supervising students in classroom and laboratory.
3. Evaluating students using examination, assignments, observations of field skills and
recording progress.
4. Selecting, designing, updating and constructing training aids.
5. Counselling students with respect to educational and employment opportunities.
6. Attend meetings, seminars, workshops, etc. to keep current with industry and educational
requirements.
7. Assist in/arrange for equipment maintenance and repair.
8. Liaison with educational partners and industry.
9. Application of resource management principles and practices to First Nation and Métis
programming initiatives.
- QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE

**Specific Accountabilities**

**Duties**

**Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities (QSA)**
- 1. Technical diploma or university degree in Biology, Environmental Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Two years of recent/relevant experience in the resource management sector:
- forest harvesting methods, transportation systems, and silviculture practices.
- mapping systems and compassing, map interpretation, and measurements.
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS) advanced data collection techniques.
- knowledge of soils, parent material, and corresponding vegetation within the integrated context of ecological land classification.
- knowledge of forest road planning, mapping, and road development.
- knowledge of tree volume calculations for harvest and road construction.
- knowledge of forest harvest system
- maintaining and operating chainsaws in a safe manner.
- 3. Effective instructional ability.
4. Effective interpersonal skills.
5. Effective communication skills.
7. Ability to function as a team member in an ever-changing environment.
8. Demonstrates valuing diversity.**Desired QSA