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Competition ID: 4897
Internal Closing Date: December 11, 2026
External Closing Date: December 11, 2026
# of Openings: 1
Salary Information: Student Assistant Pay Scale
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Travel Frequency: Employee Group: Student Assistant
Days of Work (BCGEU): Hours of Work (BCGEU): Hours per Week (BCGEU):
Summary
The Teaching and Learning innovation fund (TLIF) Grant Project Student Assistant provide support for an TLIF project. TLIF Grant student assistant responsibilities include supporting the TLIF grant project through conducting research, such as carrying out literature reviews, develop questionnaires, tabulating reports. The assistance is also expected to develop reports, presentation material, work with educational media, maintaining web sites and social media platforms. The student assistant is expected to communicate, coordinate, and promote project activities amongst key parties of the project.
This position is reserved for KPU Students only.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct literature reviews and create annotated bibliography of key findings
- Do library and online research as required (e.g., statistics, finding openly licensed images, etc.)
- Assist in the development of questionnaires for data collection, field interviews
- Conduct in-person and online interviews, focus groups, and/or help conduct interviews related to the grant project research
- Tabulate interview results, analysis data, develop reports for project team review
- Develop presentation materials, infographics and follow appropriate attribution, citation, and accessibility guidelines
- Create educational media on a chosen platform (e.g., Kaltura, Camtasia)
- Build and maintain content specific to the grant project in chosen platforms such as Moodle, Word Press and Pebble Pad
- Develop and disseminate communication materials, build social media presence as requested, to support the grant project
- Communicate and coordinate tasks between key parties critical and vital to the project
- Provide support to fellow learners at the direction of TLIF project lead
Qualifications
Preference will be given to students with experience in once or more of the following areas:
- Familiarity with conducting literature reviews, research using the KPU library databases
- Work with technology platforms such as Moodle, and/or Pressbooks, and/or WordPress, and/or Kaltura, and/or Pebble Pad
- Familiarity in working with MS Word, Excel, Power Point
- Excellent oral and written communicating skills
- Familiar with working with social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
SALARY INFORMATION
Student Assistants Are Paid As Per The Following
- Less than one year of post-secondary (less than 30 credits) – BC Minimum Wage
- One year of post-secondary (30-60 credits) – BC Minimum Wage plus 8%
- With a post-secondary diploma or degree – BC Minimum Wage plus 21%
Total Rewards
As a part of our total rewards offerings, KPU also offers extended health and dental benefits, healthcare spending account, generous vacation package, defined pension plan, parenthood top-up, sick leave, long-term disability, life insurance, professional development days, tuition waiver, inhouse training & development, inter-campus transportation, and more!
Note: Eligibility requirements apply, benefits may vary depending on the employee group the position belongs to and whether the position offered is temporary or part-time.
Visit https://www.kpu.ca/hr for more information on KPU’s workplace, culture and total rewards.
Note to Applicants
Kwantlen Polytechnic University welcomes and encourages applications from equity deserving groups and diverse experiences including, but not limited to, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, and members of the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community.
If there are any barriers that you are experiencing or an accommodation that we can provide to support you through the application process, please reach out to us at talentacquisition@kpu.ca.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is committed to protecting the safety and welfare of employees, students, and the general public, and upholding the reputation and integrity of the University. For this reason, final applicants will be asked to undergo a background check.
We thank all applicants for their interest in employment with KPU. Only candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
