Job Description
When you join Okanagan College, you’re joining a team that’s transforming lives and communities.
Every course you create, every student you support and every connection you build, it all matters.
Be a part of a vibrant campus community, where the work you do every day truly makes a difference.
Desired Start Date: September 7, 2026
Position End Date: May 7, 2027
Salary range: $28.76 - $32.82
Bargaining unit: BCGEU Support Staff
Type of appointment: Non-regular Full-time
Closing date: August 23, 2026
Special Instructions to Applicants:
Shortlisted internal candidates must notify the current Support Staff Bargaining Chairperson and People Services if they want a Union Observer during interviews and final selection of candidates.
Reporting to the Manager, Student Engagement, Health Promotion & Sport, the Student Engagement, Health Promotion & Sport Assistant provides comprehensive administrative, clerical, and operational support for student life, peer support, orientation, recreation, and sport-related programs and initiatives. The role supports the planning, promotion, coordination, and delivery activities of the department, while ensuring effective facility use, accurate records management, and a high standard of student service.
Function & Duties
Administrative Support
- Provides clerical and administrative support for departmental operations.
- Drafts, assembles, and maintains departmental reports, statistics, registrations, and records.
- Creates and maintains forms, templates, manuals, and bring-forward systems.
- Responds to in-person, telephone, and digital inquiries.
- Maintains departmental databases.
Program, Event & Student Life Support
- Assists with planning, coordination, promotion, and delivery of programs and events.
- Coordinates venue bookings, IT/AV requests, food services, licensing, and logistics.
- Represents Student Life at orientations, open houses, and transition activities.
- Supports orientation and student transition initiatives.
- Supports presentations and information sessions.
Student Employee Support (Non-Supervisory)
- Assists with recruitment, onboarding, training, and scheduling.
- Provides functional guidance.
- Reviews timesheets.
Other
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience
Graduation from a two-year Recreation diploma or related program, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Two to four years of related experience in athletics, recreation, student life, or facility operations.
Skills & Abilities
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office, web editing, social media platforms
- Strong organizational, communication, and customer service skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to manage web content and other digital communication channels (e.g., social media)
- Ability to lift up to 40 lbs and assist with equipment setup and teardown
Our Values
Students first: Creating meaningful life-long educational opportunities of the highest quality for alumni, current, and future students is at the heart of everything we do.
Community: We are one College. We enthusiastically embrace the opportunity to work with, learn from, and support everyone we encounter collaboratively and collegially.
Respect: We welcome, embrace, and celebrate that which make us unique in creating an environment in which every individual is valued, affirming our commitment to human dignity for all.
Courage: We are courageous in our actions in areas that contribute to positive change in our communities and beyond. We have the courage to be vulnerable. We are truthful, sincere, and act ethically with honesty and fairness.
Relationships: We steward meaningful relationships built on a foundation of reciprocity. We are compassionate, empathic, and care for the holistic well-being of students, employees, community members, and the land.
Distinction: We choose activities in which we can achieve excellence and positively impact society.
Okanagan College is committed to increasing the equitable and inclusive participation of marginalized people in all aspects of college life. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, people with disabilities and people with diverse gender identities or expressions. People with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence,
AccessibilityHR@okanagan.bc.ca
