Location Recent Westminster Campus

Salary Range

$18.42/hour The Prospect

You’re driven and eager to delve into career exploration while enriching your educational journey. As a student yourself, you bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to ensuring other students are supported at the College. Whether it’s working alongside faculty, employees, and staff, or assisting your student peers, collaborating with diverse groups comes easily to you.

If this sounds like you, we need your talents! Apply to the Student Assistant position, and gain real-world knowledge, while creating meaningful career connections.

Who We Are

Do what you love. Be good at it. That’s how Douglas College defines a great career. It’s a philosophy that resonates through our classrooms, our offices and our boardrooms. It inspires our students and drives us to make Douglas College one of BC’s Top Employers. We love what we do. And we’re looking for passionate, motivated people to join us in making one of Canada’s best degree-granting colleges even better.

Be a part of an institution where everyone is committed to empowering successful students, creating responsive learning environments, fostering social and environmental responsibility, and supporting healthy learning and work environments.

What It Takes The Role: involves supporting instructors and students, with a focus on ensuring a functional and collaborative learning space for human and physical geography courses

Responsibilities

- Provide peer support and course assistance to students during scheduled and open lab sessions;
- Clarify lab instructions and assist with demonstrations;
- Set up and take down equipment and materials for geography lab exercises;




- Ensure that lab procedures and practices adhere to safety standards.

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Need

- Working knowledge of ArcGIS software and successful completion of at least one undergraduate level GIS course
- A foundational knowledge of geography lab materials
- A familiarity with lab equipment related to geography
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Responsible, professional, and reliable

Domestic students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:

- The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College throughout the work term
- OR
- The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the college in the term immediately following the work term
- OR
- The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. throughout the work term
- OR
- The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained,



a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the institution in the term immediately following the work term

International students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:

- The international student is enrolled in full-time studies at Douglas College, throughout the academic year
- OR
- The international student, who is not a Douglas College student, but is an international student at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C., has a valid Study Permit that has the notation – “May accept employment on or off campus if meeting eligibility criteria as per R186 (F), (V) or (W). Must cease working if no longer meeting these criteria.”
- Proof of enrollment in full-time studies from the other post-secondary institution is required.

An original copy of a Social Insurance Number ( SIN ) and an original Study Permit are required by law before commencing work at Douglas College. Qualified Douglas College students meeting the above criteria will be given first preference over students of other qualifying institutions.

Additional Information The position is located at the Current Westminster campus.

Hours of work: up to a maximum of 20 hours/week. The work terms for this position are:

- 1. Fall Semester 2026 –
- September 8, 2026 –
- December 19, 2026
- Winter Semester 2027 –
- January 4, 2027 –
- April 23, 2027
- Summer Semester 2027 –
- May 10, 2027 –
- August 21, 2027

📌 Student Assistant, Geography Lab (New Westminster)
🏢 Douglas College
📍 New Westminster