About the role
The Department for Communication and Visual Arts is seeking a sessional instructor to teach FIRE 2410: Wildfire Community Relations in the Fall 2025 semester, to be delivered online synchronously - Tuesday 6-8:50PM.
In this course students will examine the importance and complexities of community relations in the context of wildfires. Students identify issues affecting relationships and communications between public institutions, national, provincial, and municipal governments, community organizations, and community members with a focus on wildfire concerns including extreme fire behaviour and fire activity, fire prevention and public education, and public and individual safety. Students will critically examine trends within the Community Relations field, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), while interrogating the barriers that may interfere in cultivating positive community relations.
QUALIFICATIONS
A master’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of five years of operational experience in Wildfire Community 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 Community Relations work, 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 2410: Wildfire Community Relations in the Fall 2025 semester, to be delivered online synchronously - Tuesday 6-8:50PM.
In this course students will examine the importance and complexities of community relations in the context of wildfires. Students identify issues affecting relationships and communications between public institutions, national, provincial, and municipal governments, community organizations, and community members with a focus on wildfire concerns including extreme fire behaviour and fire activity, fire prevention and public education, and public and individual safety. Students will critically examine trends within the Community Relations field, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), while interrogating the barriers that may interfere in cultivating positive community relations.
QUALIFICATIONS
A master’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of five years of operational experience in Wildfire Community 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 Community Relations work, 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.