Jobs in Ottawa, Canada

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice‑principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well‑being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking creative, dynamic, and committed teachers to join our team at Merivale Intermediate School.

Merivale High School is a 7‑12 school that serves a diverse school community. Our Intermediate Program was launched in 2017 and offers both English and French Immersion programs, as well as extra‑curricular experiences with teams and clubs. Our students are challenged to reach their full potential and are supported on their learning journey by our dedicated and energetic staff. We emphasize the development of essential knowledge and skills, creative and critical thinking, respect for others, and engagement with the learning process.

Ideal candidates will support the fulfillment of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s (OCDSB) Strategic Plan to enhance the quality of education in the school, and the District, by creating a positive and inclusive school climate, learning and workplace environment. Candidates will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and respectfully, with a human rights and equity perspective, to foster student success, achievement and well‑being.

All Occasional Teachers are eligible to apply for Long Term Occasional postings for which they are qualified.

If you are fully external to the OCDSB, you may apply to this posting if you have the required qualifications. Please be advised that our order of consideration for Elementary LTO'sis as follows:

1. Current elementary occasional teacher applicants
2. Qualified external applicants

OCT Divisional Qualifications: Intermediate

OCT Additional Qualifications: FSL Part 1

Additional Requirements (experience, knowledge, education,) considered an asset for the Position: Spec ed and ESL/TELL qualifications are an asset

Additional Information: NA

Applications will be assessed with respect to the requirements and qualifications outlined in this job posting and in accordance with the following:

Equitable Recruitment, Hiring & Promotion Policy

A minimum of 3 qualified applicants will be offered an interview, including:

1. At least three (3) teachers, who are currently employed as an occasional teacher with the OCDSB, and who have the required OCT qualifications and who best meet the criteria outlined in the job posting.
2. If fewer than three (3) qualified applicants apply, all qualified applicants will be interviewed.

• It is the expectation that a teacher who accepts an assignment must agree to complete the assignment as posted. Teachers should apply only to the vacancies to which they will accept an interview.

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OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

Questions about posting details or persons with disabilities who require accommodation in the application/interview process should email the following:

• Kristina.Vander.Vecht@ocdsb.ca: A.Lorne Cassidy ES to Fielding Drive PS & OCV
• Jennifer.Jones-Kosmack@ocdsb.ca: First Avenue PS to North Gower PS & Central
• Grace.Wiegand@ocdsb.ca: Orleans Wood ES to York St. PS & New Orleans Elementary School (name TBD)