Pos ition : OLR - 22 : Educational Assistant – EA 4 Location: Our Lady of the Rivers Hours/Week: 25-31 h ours per week Start Date: August 28, 2026 Closing Date: August 19 , 202 6 Job Reference: OLR22 - 0 810 2026 Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Elementary grades 1-6.

Qualifications

- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B;

Requirements

- Support students' growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
- Work cooperative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team
- Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
- Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
- Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
- Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
- Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
- Work and play at student's physical level of their activities
- Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs




- Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- Medical Procedures – such as Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, or diabetic monitoring
- Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
- Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
- Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
- Physical ability to lift and move students
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision

Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered. The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest . Please submit resumes to with the job reference number in the subject line.

📌 OLR - 22: Educational Assistant 4 (Fort McMurray)
🏢 Fort McMurray Catholic School Division
📍 Fort McMurray