OLR - 17: Educational Assistant 4

Fort Madison Community School District; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant (EA) for elementary grades 1-6. Location: Our Lady of the Rivers. Start ASAP with closing date August 28, 2026. 25-31 hours per week.

The successful candidate will work under teacher guidance, support learning, behaviour management, and assist with software/tools; prior E.A. certificate or diploma preferred; NVCI Level A&B may be required.

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma is required.
• NVCI Level A&B may be required.

Responsibilities

• Support students' cognition, communication, physical and social development.
• Assist and/or implement teacher-directed programming.
• Collaborate with teacher, CST and a multidisciplinary team.
• Apply specialist strategies (OT, PT, SLP) to reach goals.
• Implement behaviour management and educational strategies.
• Communicate with students using positive reinforcement and school-specific strategies.
• Observe and promote positive behavioural/educational outcomes; mitigate negative ones.
• Provide structure to facilitate completion of learning outcomes; assist with adaptive technologies.
• Observe and support students at their activity level; supervise indoors and outdoors.
• Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Check will be required; assist with references.

Education

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

NVCI Level A&B (may be required)

Job description

Position:OLR - 1 7 : Educational Assistant – EA 4

Location: Our Lady of the Rivers

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: August 28 th, 2026

Job Reference: OLR 17 - 08192026

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 collaborative 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.

We thank all applicants for their interest.