GS – 21: Educational Assistant 2

Fort Madison Community School District; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is seeking a full-time Educational Assistant (EA) for grades 1–6 at Good Shepherd. The role involves supporting student growth across cognitive, communication, physical and social domains, and assisting with teacher-led programming.

Qualifications include an Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma. The ideal candidate will collaborate with teachers and the multi-disciplinary team, and assist with literacy and numeracy development while ensuring student safety

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma.
• Ability to support cognition, communication, physical and social development.
• Willingness to implement teacher-directed programming and collaborate with staff.

Responsibilities

• Support students' growth in cognition, communication, physical and social development.
• Support and/or implement teacher directed programming.
• Work collaboratively under guidance of teacher, CST and other MDT members.
• Implement specialist strategies (OT, PT, SLP) to reach goals.
• Assist students with literacy/numeracy development.
• Provide supervision indoors and outdoors as directed by school.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Patience

Education

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Pos ition : GS – 21: Educational Assistant – EA 2

Location: Good Shepherd

Hours/Week: 2 5-31 Hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: September 21 st , 2026

Job Reference: GS 21 - 09 25 202 6

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in grades 1 - 6.

Qualifications:

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

Requirements:

• Support students' growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
• Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
• Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and other member of the multi-disciplinary team
• Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
• Able to work with student to implement and support literacy/numeracy
• Toileting routines if required
• Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
• Work and play at student's physical level of their activities
• Swim program, if required
• 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.