Part-Time Positions

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Our Winter term positions are now open for applications! Bookmark this page for when we release our  Summer 2025 term job postings later this year. Applications are open on a rolling basis, and we may fill positions before the application deadline of October 13th, 2024. Join our mailing list here.

Instructor Positions

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Weekday Clubs Instructor

Our weekday clubs instructors deliver hands-on after-school STEM content to elementary schools in East Vancouver. Please indicate in your application if your availability includes Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and/or Thursdays from 2:00-5:00PM!

Surrey Libraries Clubs Instructor 

This position facilitates after-school/weekend clubs at various Surrey Libraries locations. Please indicate in your application your evening and weekend availability.

Student Assistant Positions

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Camps Student Assistant

The Camps Student Assistant position is a leadership position supervising STEM summer camps at one of our five locations in Vancouver, Richmond, South Surrey, North Vancouver, and Coquitlam. Camps SAs oversee administration and registration, staff training, and people management for a team of camps instructor staff.

Recruitment Student Assistant

The Recruitment Student Assistant helps administration staff with the intake, screening, and interviewing of over 100 summer staff positions. This front-facing role ensures prompt communication with applicants, assists with interview scheduling, and sits in on interviews for potential hires.

STEM Leadership Program Student Assistant

The STEM Leadership Program (STEMLP) is a 7-month development program for high school youth that includes professional development sessions, volunteering in camps, and a cumulative group project. This role oversees the recruitment for the program, and designs & delivers the professional development workshops. The STEMLP Student Assistant is a university student who mentors and teaches participants valuable leadership and technical skills. More information about the program can be found here.

InSTEM Positions

InSTEM Team applications are now closed. Sign up for our mailing list to get notified when summer hiring opens!

Teaching at Geering Up

How Do I Apply?

  1. Get to know Geering Up
    Explore our website. Get to know how Geering Up works. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
  2. Prepare your application
    During the process of filling out the application form, you will be asked for a brief summary of your relevant work/volunteer experience and a PDF of your resume. Instructor applicants will be asked to attach a YouTube video link (more info in FAQ’s below). Applicants to full-time positions will also be asked to submit a cover letter.
  3. Fill out the Application Form
    The application form is available above. You will be asked to attach your resume, cover letter and video (if you are applying for a camps instructing position) to the last page of this application form. You will not receive a confirmation email when your application has been received by us.

FAQs

Geering Up is a non-profit organization that exists to bring STEM programming to youth across BC regardless of their background. To achieve this Geering Up does four things: workshops in elementary schools, camps at UBC, after-school clubs at UBC, and outreach in communities outside of Vancouver. Our instructor team plans and delivers this fantastic content.

As an engineering and science outreach organization, we do give preference to students with an engineering or science background. However, for our instructing positions, we consider other applicants who have strong experience working with children or are pursuing a career in education. For our non-teaching positions, we consider all applicants who have work experience in similar roles.

We want to see you in action! Our Instructor application will ask for you to attach a video. We ask that you film a quick video (no editing necessary) of you teaching anything within the STEM fields as if it were to a class of kids.

Please keep it short (under 2 minutes) and upload the video to YouTube, as we will ask for a YouTube link. Returning staff are exempt from this.

Yes!! However, please be advised that several of our positions work with young children. If you are an international student on a work permit, a completed medical exam is required prior to your start date for these positions. Please refer to the Government of Canada website or contact your local visa office for additional information.

Yes! Anyone who joins us for camps season (June 15th start) can take classes during Term 1 of the summer. We will excuse you from work for any classes and finals you have in the last couple weeks of June. Lots of Instructors prefer a June start so that they can take some summer classes. If you plan on taking Summer Term 2 courses, then you would have to take a part-time position with us during camps season.

Given these uncertain times, we may choose to not hire some of the above roles. However, we feel optimistic that all these positions will be funded and set in stone within the next month. We encourage everyone to apply! We will connect with applicants who applied for roles which we have had to alter or drop to see if they are interested in other available positions.

Student Assistants are the title we give to our staff who help out with our administration team. They often directly oversee a project, which could include supervising a group of Instructors.

Have more questions?
You can reach us at recruitment.geeringup@ubc.ca.