Student Assistant, Biology Lab (Coquitlam Campus)

Douglas College; New Westminster; On-site; CAD 24,796 - 27,552; Part time

Job summary

Douglas College is seeking a part-time Student Assistant, Biology Lab at the Coquitlam campus. You will support Biology Lab staff with cleanup, preparation of materials, and microbiology tasks while mentoring fellow students.

Ideal candidates are biology students in their first or second year who can meet domestic or international eligibility criteria. This role offers up to 10 hours per week during Fall, Winter, and Summer semesters.

Qualifications

• First/second year Biology students preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with lab set-up and clean up.
• Animal husbandry: feeding, cleaning, and general care.
• Green House work: watering, pruning, pest management.
• Prepare solutions and chemicals for weekly labs under supervision.
• Build weekly kits for labs.
• Teaching fellow students about animal care.
• After training, work in microbiology labs preparing media, sterilizing equipment and working with bacteria under supervision.

Skills

Lab setup

Animal care

Green House work

Chemical prep

Education

First/second year Biology student

Job description

The Opportunity

You're driven and eager to delve into career exploration while enriching your educational journey. As a student yourself, you bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to ensuring other students are supported at the College. Whether it's working alongside faculty, employees, and staff, or assisting your student peers, collaborating with diverse groups comes easily to you.

Location

Coquitlam Campus

Salary Range

$18.42/hour

The Opportunity

You're driven and eager to delve into career exploration while enriching your educational journey. As a student yourself, you bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to ensuring other students are supported at the College. Whether it's working alongside faculty, employees, and staff, or assisting your student peers, collaborating with diverse groups comes easily to you.

Who We Are

Do what you love. Be good at it. That's how Douglas College defines a great career. It's a philosophy that resonates through our classrooms, our offices and our boardrooms. It inspires our students and drives us to make Douglas College one of BC's Top Employers. We love what we do. And we're looking for passionate, motivated people to join us in making one of Canada's best degree-granting colleges even better.

Be a part of an institution where everyone is committed to empowering successful students, creating responsive learning environments, fostering social and environmental responsibility, and supporting healthy learning and work environments.

What It Takes

Student Assistant, Biology Lab assist Biology Lab staff in the clean-up, preparation of materials and maintenance of the lab. Student Assistant, Biology Lab may be tasked with caring for biology lab animals, tending plants in the Green Houses, general lab and working in microbiology labs.

Responsibilities

• Assist with lab set-up and clean up
• Animal husbandry: feeding, cleaning, and general care
• Green House work: watering, pruning, pest management
• Prepare solutions and chemicals for weekly labs under supervision
• Build weekly kits for labs
• Teaching fellow students about animal care
• After training, work in microbiology labs preparing media, sterilizing equipment and working with bacteria under supervision

To Be Successful in this Role You Will Need

• Students who have completed first and/or second year Biology preferred.

Domestic students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:

• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College throughout the work term; OR
• The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the college in the term immediately following the work term; OR
• The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. throughout the work term

International students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:

• The international student is enrolled in full-time studies at Douglas College, throughout the academic year; OR
• The international student, who is not a Douglas College student, but is an international student at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C., has a valid Study Permit that has the notation - "May accept employment on or off campus if meeting eligibility criteria as per R186 (F), (V) or (W). Must cease working if no longer meeting these criteria." Proof of enrollment in full-time studies from the other post-secondary institution is required.

An original copy of a Social Insurance Number ( SIN ) and an original Study Permit are required by law before commencing work at Douglas College.

Qualified Douglas College students meeting the above criteria will be given first preference over students of other qualifying institutions.

Additional Information

The position is located at the Coquitlam campus. Hours of work: up to a maximum of 10 hours/week. The work terms for this position are:

• Fall Semester 2026 - September 8, 2026 - December 19, 2026
• Winter Semester 2027 - January 4, 2027 - April 23, 2027
• Summer Semester 2027 - May 10, 2027 - August 21, 2027