Hybrid Part-time Professor – Environmental Concerns bei Georgian College
Georgian College · Owen Sound, Kanada · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in Owen Sound
Department: School College Partnerships
Campus: Owen Sound
Posting Date: July 25, 2025
Contract Hours: Thursdays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Classification: Academic
Hourly Pay Range: $72.56 - $159.79 per hour
Status: Part-time
Effective Date: September 8,2025 – December 8, 2025
Reporting to the Manager, School College Partnerships, the incumbent develops and delivers courses in the Dual Credit program. Environmental Concerns (GNED 1000) is scheduled to be delivered at the Owen Sound campus. This dual credit course is part of a Ministry funded Indigenous dual credit program and provides Indigenous senior secondary school students with an understanding of how human actions impact various plant and animal ecologies. Past and present environmental issues are examined and future environmental concerns predicted through the lens of human value systems, priorities, lifestyles, and environmental worldviews. Issues of sustainability are investigated considering specific environmental challenges. Traditional Indigenous values are identified and their relationship with the land explored within the environmental ecological worldview.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Develops and delivers appropriate curriculum to meet course objectives in the following areas:
- Biology and ecology as they relate to a healthy environment
- The world’s bioregions and the places of ecological concern model
- Human impacts on the environment, and the relationship with the land through the ecological, Indigenous and expansionist environmental worldviews
- Personal, political, and socio-economic aspects of current environmental issues
- Anthropogenic causes of climate change
- Consumption patterns of the expansionist environmental worldview, and the patterns of sustainability, as demonstrated by Indigenous peoples.
- Incorporates a variety of teaching / learning strategies to meet student needs
- Evaluates student progress / achievement
- Participates in program and college activities as required
- Participates in program revisions and renewal activities as required
- Creates and maintains a positive learning environment
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, climatology, biology, ecology, geography or related natural sciences, or another relevant field
- Minimum five years’ related industry experience
- Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge, understanding and lived practices/experience in the Indigenous (First Nation, Metis, Inuit or Non-Status) Way of Being
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Commitment to life-long learning
- Proven ability to work in a team environment and to foster the same in students
- Experience in some or all the following is an asset: curriculum development, a variety of delivery strategies, adult learning methodologies, academic advising, and student success strategies
- Previous experience teaching high school aged youth will be considered an asset
- Teaching and Training Adults certification and / or experience in a teaching or training capacity will be considered an asset
Acceptable proof of education (degrees, credentials) from recognized post-secondary institutions or confirmation of international equivalencies will be required as part of the selection process.
Georgian College supports diversity, equity and a workplace free from harassment and discrimination and is committed to an inclusive, barrier-free environment. We invite applications from all qualified candidates and actively encourage applications from members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including, but not limited to persons of Indigenous ancestry, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. If you are contacted to participate in the interview, please advise the coordinator of any accommodations needed with respect to any materials or processes used to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process.
Alternate formats will be provided upon request throughout the recruitment and selection process.
This posting will be open until filled. While we thank all applicants, only those contacted for an interview will be acknowledged.
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