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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: Fall 2025
Total hours: 130
Posted on: August 25, 2025
Applications accepted until: August 29, 2025 (5 business days from posting) - second extension to September 15, 2025.
Course Summary:
Transformative social work practice is understood to encompass critical reflexivity and action that aims to disrupt current social inequalities and manifestations of power inherent in the delivery of social services and community work. The fluid concept of social justice will be deconstructed and explored through a variety of theoretical lenses including, but not limited to Indigenous, anti-racist, feminist, queer, disability and transnational perspectives. Theories of progressive social change practices will be explored in order to lead the student to think about concepts such as colonialism, intersectionality, power and resistance within social work practices. Students will also be encouraged to engage in reflexivity with regards to their own experiences of intersecting identities and how they are situated within relations of power.
Position Summary: GTAs will be required to undertake the following tasks:
Required Duties:
- Facilitating seminar/small group discussions
- Giving presentations/lectures
- Preparation of readings/revisions of course materials
- Holding of office hours and meeting with students
- Communicating with students via email, monitoring online discussion posts
- Providing informal and formal academic advice to students
- Grading
- Attending lectures/classes
- Meetings with course instructor
- Instructor required training (e.g., readings concerning teaching)
- Related duties to support GTA development/interest as specified
Optional Duties:
- Presentations/lectures, facilitating seminar
- Some flexibility around attending classes
The total weekly commitment will be an average of 10 hours per week, with the exact number depending on the tasks assigned.
Qualifications:
To be considered a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), you must be enrolled as a fulltime graduate student.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD level student
- Completion of MSW degree or have taken SK507 a simlar course previously
- Understanding of social justice related issues and impact on diverse population
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the field an asset
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.
Term: Fall 2025
Total hours: 130
Posted on: August 25, 2025
Applications accepted until: August 29, 2025 (5 business days from date of posting) - second extension to September 15, 2025
Course Summary:
In this course students learn the basic tenets and skills of a range of theories applicable to practice with individuals. The course emphasizes an experiential approach to teaching and practicing skills. The main elements of the course are: the processes and stages involved in social work practice with individuals; an introduction to the importance of reflexivity and self-awareness in the co-construction of the social work relationship; ethics; skills of interviewing, holistic assessment, and developing a complex understanding of the service user within an ecological systems context; and issues important in working with diverse and marginalized populations, including a trauma-informed perspective and indigenous worldviews.
Position Summary:
GTAs will be required to undertake the following tasks:
Required Duties:
- Facilitating seminar/small group discussions
- Giving presentations/lectures
- Grading
- Meetings with course instructor
Optional Duties:
- Facilitating seminars
- Giving presentations/lectures
The total weekly commitment will be an average of 10 hours per week, with the exact number depending on the tasks assigned.
Qualifications:
To be considered a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), you must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student.
Required:
- PhD level student
- Direct clinical experience/social work practice experience with individuals
Application Requirements:
Applications can be emailed directly to abaksh@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.
Term: Fall 2025
Total hours: 130-hour GTA
Posted on: September 3, 2025
Applications accepted until: September 9, 2025 - second extension to September 15, 2025
Course Summary:
The emphasis of this course is on the use of self as it relates to the direct practice experience of the student. The overall objective is to enhance self-awareness and interpersonal skills that are related to the conscious use of self in social work practice. A focus on self-reflective awareness will include an examination of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that arise in practice interactions, including how these are influenced by personal history, social location and attitudes toward issues of diversity and difference (e.g., race/ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, class, sexual orientation and disability).
Position Summary: GTAs will be required to undertake the following tasks:
Required Duties:- Preparation of readings/revisions of course materials,
- Holding of office hours and meeting with students,
- Communicating with students via email, monitoring online discussion posts,
- Grading
The total weekly commitment will be an average of 10 hours per week, with the exact number depending on the tasks assigned.
Qualifications: To be considered a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), you must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student.
Required:
- PhD level student
Application Requirements: Applications can be emailed directly to aelkchirid@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.
Term: Winter 2026
Total hours: 65
Posted on: August 25, 2025
Applications accepted until: August 29, 2025 (5 business days from date of posting) - second extension to September 15, 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.