SA - 15: Educational Assistant 2

St. Clement's School; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local educational institution in Fort McMurray is seeking a part-time Educational Assistant to support students' cognitive, communication, and social development. The ideal candidate will hold an Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma, and be prepared to implement teacher-directed programming, collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, and provide effective supervision. This position requires physical capability to assist students and effective communication skills. Interested applicants should submit resumes to [e-mail] with the job reference number.

Qualifications

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma is required.
• Ability to support students in cognitive and social development.
• Experience in implementing strategies for literacy and numeracy.

Responsibilities

• Support student growth across multiple development areas.
• Implement and support teacher-directed programming.
• Communicate effectively using positive reinforcement.

Skills

Student supervision

Effective communication

Collaboration

Implementation of teaching strategies

Education

Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Position: SA - 15: Educational Assistant – EA 2

Location: St. Anne

Hours/Week: 12.5 - 15.5 hours per week

Start Date: ASAP

Closing Date: January 5th, 2026

Job Reference: SA15-12152025

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a half-time Educational Assistant in ECS.

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 collaboratively 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
• 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.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest. Please submit resumes to [e-mail] with the job reference number in the subject line.