HT 14 - Educational Assistant – EA 3, Specialized Education Program
About the role
Position: HT 14 - Educational Assistant – EA 3, Specialized Education Program
Location: Holy Trinity
Hours/Week: 25-31.25 Hours per week
Start Date: August 29, 2025
Closing Date: August 22, 2025
Job Reference: HT14-08132025
The Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in High School Specialized Education Programs.
Qualifications:
- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- Able to understand/support Social, LA, Math and Scinces Grades 7-12 including 30-1 levels
Requirements:
- Able to understand and support students academically in Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
- Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and other member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
- Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
- Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
- Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
- Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
- Successful implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- Manage student behaviour using strategies learned through NVCI certification (Specific requirement only)
- Able to work with students with Autism or complex medical needs
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.
The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.
Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.
Please submit resumes to with the job reference number in the subject line.
About Fort McMurray Catholic School Division
Fort McMurray Catholic Board serves over 6,800 students in 13 schools. All schools offer a wide range of programming geared towards meeting the academic, cultural and spiritual needs of our community.
An integral part of the Public Education System of Alberta, Catholic Schools offer a faith-based learning environment to students of any background and a level of instruction geared toward the highest academic standards. Instruction is primarily in English.Primary/Secondary company located in 145 MacLean Rd, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
HT 14 - Educational Assistant – EA 3, Specialized Education Program
About the role
Position: HT 14 - Educational Assistant – EA 3, Specialized Education Program
Location: Holy Trinity
Hours/Week: 25-31.25 Hours per week
Start Date: August 29, 2025
Closing Date: August 22, 2025
Job Reference: HT14-08132025
The Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in High School Specialized Education Programs.
Qualifications:
- Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
- Able to understand/support Social, LA, Math and Scinces Grades 7-12 including 30-1 levels
Requirements:
- Able to understand and support students academically in Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
- Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
- Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and other member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
- Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
- Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
- Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
- Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
- Successful implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
- Manage student behaviour using strategies learned through NVCI certification (Specific requirement only)
- Able to work with students with Autism or complex medical needs
- Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.
The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.
Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.
Please submit resumes to with the job reference number in the subject line.
About Fort McMurray Catholic School Division
Fort McMurray Catholic Board serves over 6,800 students in 13 schools. All schools offer a wide range of programming geared towards meeting the academic, cultural and spiritual needs of our community.
An integral part of the Public Education System of Alberta, Catholic Schools offer a faith-based learning environment to students of any background and a level of instruction geared toward the highest academic standards. Instruction is primarily in English.Primary/Secondary company located in 145 MacLean Rd, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.