Top Benefits
About the role
Position Information
Job Title
Sessional Instructor – Political Science
Appointment Type
Sessional
Position Dates
August 25 - December 22, 2025
Hours per week/FTE
6
About the Position
Lethbridge Polytechnic offers a student-centered environment that provides practical and innovative learning experiences. The Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences (CBAS) delivers a range of certificate, diploma, degree, and university transfer programs, including Business Administration, Administrative Office Professional, General Arts and Science, Agriculture Science, Environmental Science, and Academic Upgrading, together with service courses to students in many other Lethbridge Polytechnic programs.
The Centre defines itself through excellence in teaching and learning, fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in all activities: development and renewal of courses and programs, approaches to teaching and learning, and scholarly activity and community engagement by students and faculty. CBAS currently seeks a faculty member with superior preparation and ongoing engagement in their academic and professional fields, passion for teaching, and willingness to commit to making excellence in teaching their primary focus. Specifically, we wish to appoint a sessional faculty with background, expertise, and proven ability to teach our transfer courses in Political Science.
The successful candidate will fulfill the following responsibilities:
-
Prepare and teach two sections of the PSC-1161 Introduction to Politics course.
-
Be capable of teaching our other university transfer courses including 1st and 2nd-year courses: 2 courses/week.
-
Demonstrate commitment to professional development.
-
Contribute to the goals and activities of the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences.
-
Support inclusiveness and diversity through embracing the Polytechnic’s policies on indigenization and internationalization.
Position Details
Responsibilities of all faculty in the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences include:
-
Deliver courses on campus in the face-to-face classroom setting.
-
Delivering courses congruent with established course curricula and program outcomes.
-
Supporting the success of students with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds and learning styles.
-
Assessing student learning in ways that both facilitate learning and ensure achievement against appropriate academic standards.
-
Contributing to course and program curriculum development and renewal.
-
Working collegially within department, School, or Polytechnic committees and project teams.
Required Qualifications
-
Post-secondary teaching experience with direct experience teaching curriculum/learning outcomes equivalent to university transfer courses.
-
Minimum educational background is a master’s degree in political science, or a combination of related education and professional experience may be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
-
Demonstrated proficiency with learning management systems, online teaching tools, and educational technology.
-
Must have a strong commitment to effective teaching and possess a demonstrated ability.
-
Must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills necessary to contribute positively to a team environment.
Salary
Commensurate with education and experience according to the Faculty Collective Agreement.
Working Here
Culture of Care
A Culture of Care at Lethbridge Polytechnic embraces a workplace that both protects and empowers employees by creating an environment that promotes psychological, cultural and physical safety. All employees play an important role in building a safe and supportive campus dedicated to learning and growing.
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
C25-00426
Open Date
07/08/2025
Close Date
07/22/2025
Open Until Filled
No
Special Instructions to Applicants
Please include an answer to the following question (in 500 words or less) in your application:
Briefly outline the most important considerations for service course curriculum and teaching (political science courses that support a variety of Polytechnic programs) and why you are the person to teach them.
* Lethbridge Polytechnic is committed to inclusive recruitment practices by providing reasonable access and accommodations to applicants. If you would like to request an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact hiringaccommodations@lethpolytech.ca. Private information received in relation to the request will only be used to facilitate the recruitment process and will be kept confidential and shared only as needed with the selection committee. *
About Lethbridge Polytechnic
At Lethbridge Polytechnic, everybody’s got a job to do.
Some of us are thinkers. Some of us are makers. But engrained in all of us is a desire to do the work. Because the best way to learn, is to do.
We should know — we’ve been doing just that for more than 60 years. And through it all, we’ve been ready. We know that our job is to make sure you’re equipped for yours.
We’re more than bricks and mortar. We’re a place of people coming together. We’re the mentors ready to combine your talent with our training. We’re the industries that fuel our region’s economy, awaiting our next generation of leaders.
We’re the people who love teaching you the skills you need to be prepared for whatever new changes and challenges tomorrow might bring. And we know that when we add your drive and determination to all of this, anything is possible.
Just look around. We know something about making a mark. About digging deep and rising up. We know success is not by chance, but that it takes perseverance, determination and grit.
Because here, everybody’s got a job to do. We are a community committed to one another. We know that what happens next matters most.
We're ready.
Top Benefits
About the role
Position Information
Job Title
Sessional Instructor – Political Science
Appointment Type
Sessional
Position Dates
August 25 - December 22, 2025
Hours per week/FTE
6
About the Position
Lethbridge Polytechnic offers a student-centered environment that provides practical and innovative learning experiences. The Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences (CBAS) delivers a range of certificate, diploma, degree, and university transfer programs, including Business Administration, Administrative Office Professional, General Arts and Science, Agriculture Science, Environmental Science, and Academic Upgrading, together with service courses to students in many other Lethbridge Polytechnic programs.
The Centre defines itself through excellence in teaching and learning, fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in all activities: development and renewal of courses and programs, approaches to teaching and learning, and scholarly activity and community engagement by students and faculty. CBAS currently seeks a faculty member with superior preparation and ongoing engagement in their academic and professional fields, passion for teaching, and willingness to commit to making excellence in teaching their primary focus. Specifically, we wish to appoint a sessional faculty with background, expertise, and proven ability to teach our transfer courses in Political Science.
The successful candidate will fulfill the following responsibilities:
-
Prepare and teach two sections of the PSC-1161 Introduction to Politics course.
-
Be capable of teaching our other university transfer courses including 1st and 2nd-year courses: 2 courses/week.
-
Demonstrate commitment to professional development.
-
Contribute to the goals and activities of the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences.
-
Support inclusiveness and diversity through embracing the Polytechnic’s policies on indigenization and internationalization.
Position Details
Responsibilities of all faculty in the Centre for Business, Arts, and Sciences include:
-
Deliver courses on campus in the face-to-face classroom setting.
-
Delivering courses congruent with established course curricula and program outcomes.
-
Supporting the success of students with diverse cultural and educational backgrounds and learning styles.
-
Assessing student learning in ways that both facilitate learning and ensure achievement against appropriate academic standards.
-
Contributing to course and program curriculum development and renewal.
-
Working collegially within department, School, or Polytechnic committees and project teams.
Required Qualifications
-
Post-secondary teaching experience with direct experience teaching curriculum/learning outcomes equivalent to university transfer courses.
-
Minimum educational background is a master’s degree in political science, or a combination of related education and professional experience may be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
-
Demonstrated proficiency with learning management systems, online teaching tools, and educational technology.
-
Must have a strong commitment to effective teaching and possess a demonstrated ability.
-
Must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills necessary to contribute positively to a team environment.
Salary
Commensurate with education and experience according to the Faculty Collective Agreement.
Working Here
Culture of Care
A Culture of Care at Lethbridge Polytechnic embraces a workplace that both protects and empowers employees by creating an environment that promotes psychological, cultural and physical safety. All employees play an important role in building a safe and supportive campus dedicated to learning and growing.
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number
C25-00426
Open Date
07/08/2025
Close Date
07/22/2025
Open Until Filled
No
Special Instructions to Applicants
Please include an answer to the following question (in 500 words or less) in your application:
Briefly outline the most important considerations for service course curriculum and teaching (political science courses that support a variety of Polytechnic programs) and why you are the person to teach them.
* Lethbridge Polytechnic is committed to inclusive recruitment practices by providing reasonable access and accommodations to applicants. If you would like to request an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact hiringaccommodations@lethpolytech.ca. Private information received in relation to the request will only be used to facilitate the recruitment process and will be kept confidential and shared only as needed with the selection committee. *
About Lethbridge Polytechnic
At Lethbridge Polytechnic, everybody’s got a job to do.
Some of us are thinkers. Some of us are makers. But engrained in all of us is a desire to do the work. Because the best way to learn, is to do.
We should know — we’ve been doing just that for more than 60 years. And through it all, we’ve been ready. We know that our job is to make sure you’re equipped for yours.
We’re more than bricks and mortar. We’re a place of people coming together. We’re the mentors ready to combine your talent with our training. We’re the industries that fuel our region’s economy, awaiting our next generation of leaders.
We’re the people who love teaching you the skills you need to be prepared for whatever new changes and challenges tomorrow might bring. And we know that when we add your drive and determination to all of this, anything is possible.
Just look around. We know something about making a mark. About digging deep and rising up. We know success is not by chance, but that it takes perseverance, determination and grit.
Because here, everybody’s got a job to do. We are a community committed to one another. We know that what happens next matters most.
We're ready.