Looking for part-time work or a summer job to complement your education? King’s students have numerous paths to seek paid practical experience.
The Student Employment Board lists opportunities below that are exclusively available to King’s students.
Application Deadline: 11:59 p.m., May 5
This position will be jointly supervised by the Assistant Dean of Residence Life (approximately 10 hours per week) and Student Support Advisor (approximately 5 hours per week).
Compensation: $5,000 honoraria for the term, paid biweekly.
Responsibilities:
· Assist the Student Support Advisor with tasks such as:
o Developing a draft Mental Health Strategy for King’s.
o Delivering training related to student mental health and wellness.
o Developing health promotion materials, including sleep, tips for eating regularly as a student on a budget, exercise, and other topics.
o Developing self-help materials for anxiety, depression, ADHD and other concerns.
· Assist the Assistant Dean of Residence Life with tasks such as:
o Planning residence educational programming for the 2024-25 academic year, including peer developed and facilitated workshops on boundary setting, self-advocacy and building life skills.
o Update key residence resource materials in preparation for the 2024-2025 academic year.
· Other duties as needed.
Essential Qualifications:
· Lived experience with a mental health concern.
· Enrollment in Winter 2023-2024 and Fall 2024-25 terms.
· Experience working in a mental health-related role is an asset.
· Completed coursework related to mental health is an asset.
Schedule: Flexible 15 hours per week. Blend of on-campus and virtual work.
Contract dates: Monday, 13 May–Friday 30 August 2024.
To apply for this position, please send your cover letter, resume, and a sample of previous graphic design work (Instagram post, flyer, poster, brochure) to isaac.wright@ukings.ca. Please disclose lived experience of mental health concerns, knowing that this information will be kept confidential to the hiring committee (consisting only of the two co-supervisors).
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The University of King’s College is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage and welcome those who would contribute to the diversification of our staff and faculty including, but not limited to women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.
Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ADT
Contract Terms: August 26, 2024 – March 28, 2025
Pay: $16.00 per hour plus 4% vacation pay
This position is funded by Nova Scotia’s Department of Advanced Education which has given each post-secondary education institution in Nova Scotia money to hire Student Educators.
The Student Educator will report to, and be supported by, the King’s Sexual Health and Safety Officer (SHSO). They will work together with the goal of sexualized violence prevention, increased awareness of the University of King’s College Sexualized Violence Awareness, Prevention and Response Policy, and increased skills for students. There will be two Student Educator positions for the 2024-2025 year. One Student Educator from 2023-2024 will be continuing their term, this post is to hire one student for the second position.
Duties include
Training Opportunities
Qualifications and assets
The hiring committee for this position is open to the variety of ways that people possess the above skills, including learning that has taken place outside of academia and paid work. Please consider applying even if you don’t have experience with all qualifications and assets. This position is meant to support growth on the job.
To apply for this position, please forward a resume and a brief writing of your understanding of sexualized violence and what attracts you to this position to:
Jordan Roberts – Sexual Health and Safety Officer
University of King’s College
jordan.roberts@ukings.ca
6350 Coburg Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2A1
Virtual interviews are available for students who are away from Halifax for the Summer. We thank all applicants for their interest, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The University of King’s College is on unseeded, unsurrendered Mi’kmaq Territory. We are all treaty people.
The University of King’s College is committed to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. We encourage and welcome applications from Indigenous persons (especially Mi’kmaq), persons with a disability, racialized persons, including persons of Black/African descent (especially African Nova Scotians), women, persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversification of our community.
This position is funded by Nova Scotia’s Department of Advanced Education.
The Department of Advanced Education oversees post-secondary education throughout the province to help people learn and develop the skills they need. They work with universities, NSCC and private career colleges to help them provide programs, courses and inclusive learning environments. They also administer student assistance (student loans) and post-secondary accessibility services, and provide support for programming that creates equitable, diverse and inclusive post-secondary education.
Exhibition Content Developer, Discovery Centre, through a King's Undergraduate Fellowship in Public Humanities
King’s students have the opportunity to work in almost every area of university life, and even beyond the university through facilitated internships and fellowships. Typical jobs include peer mentor, fundraising campaign caller, residence junior don, reporter for the communications team, fitness centre attendant and athletics photographer, just to name a few.
If you are looking for an opportunity to work as an assistant to a professor, look for the Student Assistantship Program (SAP) listings at the beginning of fall, winter, and summer term. Successful candidates will be paired with a faculty supervisor to work on a project such as academic research, publication preparation, new course development, journalistic projects, academic and cultural events, outreach, or archival work. These positions are light on hours—just 30h completed over a term, usually according to the student’s preference—so they offer the opportunity to gain career-building academic experience and skills, while making a minimal impact on study time.
Students have the opportunity to work on campus at one of three student-owned and operated businesses: the King’s Co-op Bookstore, the Wardroom (student lounge) and the Galley (coffee shop). Ask at these locations about openings.
King’s also coordinates several funded summer internships and part-time work experiences at external organizations and businesses that will offer students the opportunity to experience for themselves the value of their liberal arts education.
The King’s Undergraduate Fellowships in Public Humanities is an opportunity to do an experiential learning internship at an organization or business that brings the humanities to bear on the world.
The Scotia Scholars Award, funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness, is a funded opportunity for two undergraduate students at King’s to be the principal investigator on their own research study in the area of health research.
King’s encourages all student employees to use this workbook as a template for planning, documenting, and reflecting on their work experience. The goal of this document is to help elevate all student work experiences to work-integrated learning, so that students can maximize their personal and professional growth while supported by their university.