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Job Opportunities
Employment requirements are established by each individual academic unit head/program.
Qualifications, expectations, and duties may vary from course to course and department to department. Contact your academic unit head for more information about assistantships.
Available Opportunities
Full-time Laurier Graduate Students who are not already employed as Graduate Teaching Assistants and who have the appropriate disciplinary expertise, may apply for available GTA positions. GTA contracts may be for 65 or 130 hours only.
Your employment supervisor will outline the responsibilities (including deadlines) by completing a Graduate Teaching Assistant Job Responsibilities (GTAJRF). If you require a workplace accommodation, contact healthandabilities@wlu.ca.
Interested in working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant?
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) opportunities may be available. Full-time graduate students not already holding a GTA contract may be eligible to apply.
Available positions are posted for 5 business days. Click on any available position(s) posted below to learn more about the requirements and how to apply.
Faculty of Social Work
Term: Winter 2026
Total hours: 65
Posted on: October 30, 2025
Applications accepted until: November 14, 2025
Course Summary:
This course explores the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of multicultural social work practice. It explores African paradigms and argue that the practice of social work in the Global North tend to focus on Eurocentric approaches to the detriment of racialized students particularly Blacks whose background are often different from the frameworks and theories being propounded. Afrocentric practice thus embraces indigenous ways of knowing, using values like spirituality, reciprocity, collectivity, and interconnectedness. The course will provide information on theoretical and conceptual thinking about African centered social work to respond to the dearth of insights pertaining the African culture. For the profession to be relevant in the face of marginalization, discrimination and oppression, African centered theories and approaches to practice should be vital to social work education and practice.
Position Summary:
GTAs will be required to undertake the following tasks:
Required Duties:
- Holding of office hours and meeting with students
- Communicating with students via email, monitoring online discussion posts
- Grading
- Meetings with course instructor
- Instructor required training (e.g., readings concerning teaching)
Optional Duties:
- Instructor required training
Qualifications:
To be considered a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), you must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD level student
- Lived experience based on subject area
Application Requirements:
Applications can be emailed directly to dptaylor@wlu.ca.
Applicants should send a cover letter, including a statement about their suitability for the position and what they can bring to the course, along with a current resume.