Location New Westminster Campus
Salary Range
$19.53/hour
The Opportunity
You’re driven and eager to delve into career exploration while enriching your educational journey. As a student yourself, you bring a unique perspective and valuable insights to ensuring other students are supported at the College. Whether it’s working alongside faculty, employees, and staff, or assisting your student peers, collaborating with diverse groups comes easily to you.
If this sounds like you, we need your talents! Apply to the Student Assistant position, and gain real-world knowledge, while creating meaningful career connections.
Who We Are
Do what you love. Be good at it. That’s how Douglas College defines a great career. It’s a philosophy that resonates through our classrooms, our offices and our boardrooms. It inspires our students and drives us to make Douglas College one of BC’s Top Employers. We love what we do. And we’re looking for passionate, motivated people to join us in making one of Canada’s best degree-granting colleges even better.
Be a part of an institution where everyone is committed to empowering successful students, creating responsive learning environments, fostering social and environmental responsibility, and supporting healthy learning and work environments.
What It Takes
The CSIS Computer Lab Student Assistant assists students with learning software, networking, operating systems, and virtual machines in their courses by providing in-person (and/or online) peer tutoring. This software includes:
- Cisco Packet Tracer;
- Eclipse/IntelliJ IDEA (Java Programming);
- File management in Windows;
- Internet browsers, including but not limited to Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox;
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power Point;
- Oracle VirtualBox;
- Ubuntu;
- Visual Studio (C#);
- Windows 10;
- Windows Server;
- Wireshark.
Responsibilities
- Assists instructors and students in the CSIS labs (and/or online).
To Be Successful In This Role You Will Need
- Must have effective English verbal communication skills;
- Prefer to have remote/online working experience;
- Good knowledge on Windows OS;
- Good knowledge on Internet browsers, including but not limited to Internet Explorer, Chrome,
Firefox;
- Good knowledge on Visual Studio (C#) (for working in CSIS 1175 lab);
- Good knowledge on Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Power Point (for working in CSIS 1190 lab);
- Good knowledge on HTML (for working in CSIS1280 lab);
- Good knowledge on CSS (for working in CSIS1280 lab);
- Good knowledge on JavaScript (for working in CSIS1280 lab);
- Good knowledge on Java programming (for working in CSIS 2175 lab);
- Good working knowledge on Cisco Packet Tracer, Wireshark and Oracle VirtualBox (for working in
CSIS 2260/2270 lab);
- Basic working knowledge on Windows 10, Windows Server, and Ubuntu (for working in CSIS
2260/2270 lab);
- Good knowledge on Cisco network configuration and troubleshooting using packet tracer (for
working in CSIS 2260/2270 lab);
- Good knowledge on computer network fundamentals (for working in CSIS 2260/2270 lab); AND
- Successfully completed: 1) CSIS1175 or CSIS2175, with a “B+” or higher grade; AND /OR
- Both of CSIS 2260 and CSIS 2270, with a “B+” or higher grade
Domestic students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:
- The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College throughout the work term; OR
- The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of one or more (3 credit) courses at Douglas College in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the college in the term immediately following the work term; OR
- The domestic student must be enrolled in, and maintain a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. throughout the work term; OR
- The domestic student must have been enrolled in, and maintained, a minimum of two or more (3 credit) courses at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C. in the term immediately preceding the work term and has indicated an intention to enroll at the institution in the term immediately following the work term
International students must meet ONE of the following criteria, to be eligible to work as a Student Assistant/Student Research Assistant:
- The international student is enrolled in full-time studies at Douglas College, throughout the academic year; OR
- The international student, who is not a Douglas College student, but is an international student at another accredited public post-secondary institution in B.C., has a valid Study Permit that has the notation – “May accept employment on or off campus if meeting eligibility criteria as per R186 (F), (V) or (W). Must cease working if no longer meeting these criteria.” Proof of enrollment in full-time studies from the other post-secondary institution is required.
An original copy of a Social Insurance Number ( SIN ) and an original Study Permit are required by law before commencing work at Douglas College.
Qualified Douglas College students meeting the above criteria will be given first preference over students of other qualifying institutions.
Additional Information
The position is located at the New Westminster campus. Hours of work: up to a maximum of 20 hours/week. The work terms for this position are:
- Fall Semester 2026 – September 8, 2026 – December 19, 2026
- Winter Semester 2027 – January 4, 2027 – April 23, 2027
- Summer Semester 2027 – May 10, 2027 – August 21, 2027
