About the role
The Department for Communication and Visual Arts is seeking a sessional instructor to teach FIRE 2430: Wildfire Media Relations in the Fall 2025 semester, to be delivered online synchronously - Thursday 6-8:50PM
In this course students examine an array of communication needs connected with circumstances of wildfires, recognizing the conditions of heightened concern. In doing so, students develop communication plans, which may rely upon traditional, digital, and multimedia platforms, as well as analytical and critical theories regarding the perceptions of risk. By exploring theories, principles and practices of risk, as well as case studies from fire management which may require timely and complex solutions, students will develop their abilities towards crisis communication that supports diverse individuals, organizations, governments, and communities enabling them to make effective risk/benefit decisions, managing fear and uncertainty, and responding to crisis.
QUALIFICATIONS
A master’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of five years of operational experience in Wildfire Media Relations including direct incident experience, seven years of emergency management experience with a preference given to experience in Wildfire, demonstrated experience in teaching and/or training.
Or:
A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of fifteen years operational experience including direct incident experience and experience in Wildfire Media Relations, fifteen years of emergency management experience with a preference given to experience in Wildfire, demonstrated experience in teaching and/or training.
About Thompson Rivers University
We are a comprehensive, learner-centred, sustainable university that serves its regional, national and international learners and their communities through high quality and flexible education, training, research and scholarship.
Our students have access to traditional undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificates and diplomas. Robust laddering options mean flexible degree completion through online, distance education with TRU Open Learning.
We are community-minded with a global conscience, boldly redefining the university as a place of belonging—Kw’seltktnéws (we are all related and interconnected with nature, each other, and all things)—where all people are empowered to transform themselves, their communities, and the world.
TRU is a public post-secondary institution, funded by the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Advanced Education. We are a full member of AUCC (Association of Universities and College in Canada) and ACCC (Association of Canadian Community Colleges).
We are based in British Columbia, Canada. Our two campuses are located in Kamloops and Williams Lake.
About the role
The Department for Communication and Visual Arts is seeking a sessional instructor to teach FIRE 2430: Wildfire Media Relations in the Fall 2025 semester, to be delivered online synchronously - Thursday 6-8:50PM
In this course students examine an array of communication needs connected with circumstances of wildfires, recognizing the conditions of heightened concern. In doing so, students develop communication plans, which may rely upon traditional, digital, and multimedia platforms, as well as analytical and critical theories regarding the perceptions of risk. By exploring theories, principles and practices of risk, as well as case studies from fire management which may require timely and complex solutions, students will develop their abilities towards crisis communication that supports diverse individuals, organizations, governments, and communities enabling them to make effective risk/benefit decisions, managing fear and uncertainty, and responding to crisis.
QUALIFICATIONS
A master’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of five years of operational experience in Wildfire Media Relations including direct incident experience, seven years of emergency management experience with a preference given to experience in Wildfire, demonstrated experience in teaching and/or training.
Or:
A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of fifteen years operational experience including direct incident experience and experience in Wildfire Media Relations, fifteen years of emergency management experience with a preference given to experience in Wildfire, demonstrated experience in teaching and/or training.
About Thompson Rivers University
We are a comprehensive, learner-centred, sustainable university that serves its regional, national and international learners and their communities through high quality and flexible education, training, research and scholarship.
Our students have access to traditional undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificates and diplomas. Robust laddering options mean flexible degree completion through online, distance education with TRU Open Learning.
We are community-minded with a global conscience, boldly redefining the university as a place of belonging—Kw’seltktnéws (we are all related and interconnected with nature, each other, and all things)—where all people are empowered to transform themselves, their communities, and the world.
TRU is a public post-secondary institution, funded by the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Advanced Education. We are a full member of AUCC (Association of Universities and College in Canada) and ACCC (Association of Canadian Community Colleges).
We are based in British Columbia, Canada. Our two campuses are located in Kamloops and Williams Lake.