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If you are interested in both Student Assistant and Instructor positions please only fill out a Student Assistant Application. You will be given the option to indicate interest in Instructor positions in that application. Applications close November 22nd.
Instructor/ Content Creator Positions
The Local Events Instructor delivers Geering Up’s event programming on and off-campus during the academic year. Bring unique STEM based events to hundreds of youth throughout the year! Knowledge on coding and computer science topics is an asset.
Clubs Instructors are our front-line staff teaching weekend clubs in-person to up to 25 K-12 youth each week during clubs. Geering Up has in-person clubs in Vancouver and East Vancouver, primarily looking for staff that have availability during the week around 3PM, or on Saturdays.
InSTEM Internship Positions
The InSTEM Internship is designed to provide Indigenous youth with the knowledge and experience to teach about STEM topics, and develop career oriented professional skills. Indigenous Outreach Interns will be equipped with the skills to build, review and teach STEM curriculum in a safe and inclusive manner under the mentorship of an Outreach Team member. The mentor will guide the student on how to be an effective STEM educator, provide insight on the specific steps needed to pursue STEM careers, and will also work with Outreach Interns to develop a set of personal and professional development goals. Progress on these goals will be evaluated on a weekly basis throughout the placement.
Student Assistant Positions
Camps Student Assistants help prepare for and manage Geering Up’s Summer Camps. They gain the opportunity to support teams of instructors and hone their administrative skills as a part of Geering Up’s largest program.
STEM Leadership Program Student Assistant:
The STEM Leadership Program Student Assistant oversees Geering Up’s STEM Leadership Program, a specialized volunteer program for a select few exceptional high school volunteers. Responsibilities include training high schoolers in a number of professional development and engineering related skills and helping them to plan and execute an engineering related project during the summer. Extends into a full-time position in the summer.
Recruitment Student Assistant:
The Part-Time Recruitment Student Assistant assists with Geering Up’s hiring process in the lead up to the summer. With responsibilities ranging from preparing hiring materials to reviewing applications to planning and conducting interviews, this is a unique opportunity that gives you the chance to hone your administrative and communication skills.
The InSTEM Student Assistant supports Geering Up’s programming to reach underrepresented groups in STEM fields with a specific focus on Indigenous communities, rural areas, and at-risk youth. This position involves organizing camps and workshops and building and maintaining strong relationships with our community partners.
Teaching at Geering Up
How Do I Apply?
- 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. - 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. - 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.
You can reach us at recruitment.geeringup@ubc.ca.
