OLR – Educational Assistant

Position Details

Position: OLR – 33:
Educational Assistant – EA 4

Location:

Our Lady of the Rivers

Term:
Fixed Term Position until June 24th, 2026

Status:
Temporary

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date:

ASAP

Closing Date:
March 6th, 2026

Job Reference: OLR

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in ECS & grades 1-6.

• Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
• May be required to obtain NVCI Level A & B

• Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
• Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
• Work collaboratively under the guidance of the teacher, CST, and members of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
• 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 a focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
• Provide a high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
• Work and play at the student’s physical level of their activities
• Provide support in the use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
• Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan (PBP), if required
• Medical Procedures – such as catheter, tube feeding, feeding and swallowing support, or diabetic monitoring
• Able to understand, implement and support a modified curriculum
• Able to work with and support students with autism or complex medical needs
• Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
• Physical ability to lift and move students
• 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 4:00 pm 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.