Job Details

- Division: Casual
- Location Name: Negotiable AU Location
- Location: AB
- Position Type: Casual
- FTE: Not Applicable
- Closing Date: 3/31/2027 12:00:00 AM
- Wage Min: 17.5100
- Wage Max: 40.0800

Guided by Like No Other,

AU’s approach to accessible yet transformative education and research is truly distinctive. Our academic mission is to remove barriers to post-secondary education for learners, regardless of their age, location, career, or educational background.

Based in the beautiful region of Athabasca, Alberta, AU is one of four Comprehensive Academic and Research Universities (CARUs) in the province. We are a public, board-governed, open, and online university serving more than 37,000 students across Alberta, Canada, and around the world.

AU seeks to be an agile and inclusive workplace in which all team members can grow, make their highest contribution, and each make a difference to our academic vision and mission.

Led by President Dr. Alex Clark, AU is embarking on an exciting new chapter. Drawing from five decades of growth in distance and online education, we aim to grow our position as Canada’s foremost innovator in flexible, online and accessible learning. With an inclusive Senior Leadership Team dedicated to empowering every team member to contribute, learn and thrive, AU stands poised for an exciting and ambitious next stage of development.

Qualifications:

- Casual Positions range from entry level to senior administrative support positions.
- Qualifications for each position vary, the University, as a minimum, requires a high school diploma.
- Post-secondary courses or certificates, previous office experience, proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel) and email, well-developed communication,



interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to complete accurate work with established deadlines may be required.

AU regularly hires individuals to Casual Positions of a short-term (under 3 months) or sporadic nature. Casual Positions offer employment flexibility, provide an introduction to the university and gives individuals the opportunity to develop their skills and abilities in a quick-paced, collegial environment.

The Casual Inventory is a key resource that is used by AU departments to shortlist potential candidates for Casual Positions.

It is your responsibility as an applicant to maintain a current profile, such as updating your resume as you obtain new skills and experience.

Your application will be maintained in Human Resources Casual Inventory for a period of six months.

It is your responsibility as an applicant to re-apply to the pool every six months if you choose to remain a candidate for any upcoming casual positions.

Work at AU

A university like no other for people like no other

We are a public, board-governed, open, and online university serving more than 37,000 students across Alberta, Canada, and around the world.

Athabasca University (AU)



has widened access and increased opportunity to higher education for over 50 years for everyone by providing access to high-quality university education and professional development for students by removing physical, digital and systemic barriers to learning and success.

An open and online university, AU is a unique hybrid workplace with more than 1300 staff working across five faculties and six portfolios. From AU’s home on the Indigenous lands of Treaty 6, Treaty 8 and Metis Northern Alberta, we are Alberta’s only rurally-situated university with:

- Over 37,000 students across five faculties—with 33,000 undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students
- 900 courses over 70 programs—with choices from micro-credential and baccalaureate to masters and doctoral levels
- Some of the country’s most well established and largest accredited academic and professional programs in business, registered nurse and nurse practitioner programs, science, and humanities & social sciences
- 560,000 alumni across 101 countries

Under the Like No Other plan, AU seeks to be a trust- and team-oriented workplace focused on quality and innovation in which everyone is respected authentically and is and feels welcome.

Putting our learners at the centre, AU seeks to reduce barriers to access, build opportunities for growth, and foster community and connection while integrating equity, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous conciliation, and transformative systems across our activities and impacts.

AU’s centre for Indigenous peoples and communities, Nukskahtowin (or “Meeting Place”), is a welcoming place for all people and ideas to come together. Since 2001, the main goal has been to recognize and develop traditional Indigenous knowledge and to support, protect, and keep Indigenous knowledge, education, a

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