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Communications

• Critical Thinking & Communication Skills is one of two required first-year business courses and focuses on developing key competencies for academic and professional success.
• Through lab activities, exams, individual and group assignments and presentations, students gain an understanding of critical thinking theory and methodology, written and verbal communication, teamwork and digital literacy skills (including responsible use of Gen AI).
• WLIC offers this course with a HyFlex mode of delivery, which provides flexibility to students who may need to access the course remotely due to travel interruption or personal emergencies.
• The HyFlex approach enables the instructor to simultaneously engage in-person and remote learners, in pedagogically innovative ways, via live streaming on Zoom in technology-enabled classrooms.
• Instructors will be required to deliver course content synchronously.
• Applicants will be asked to demonstrate (via teaching dossier and interview) knowledge of best practices for the HyFlex delivery and management of courses; including, but not limited to: Providing engaging and interactive course instruction simultaneously to both in-person and remote learners, including best practices for assessments in HyFlex courses.
• Use course management system tools to communicate with students and to foster and support a collaborative online learning community with and between students in the course.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback on student work.
• Respond to student academic and course administration inquiries in a timely manner and refer students to technical support or student support when appropriate.
• Support academic integrity in the creation and administration of assignments, tests, and exams in an online environment.
• Applicants who have taught this course at Laurier are preferred.

Critical Thinking and Communication Skills - Lecture and Lab Instructor

Human Resources

• Examine Canadian and international perspectives on women and girls' struggles for equality
• Pay special attention to how women’s efforts shaped and were shaped by cultural mores and regulatory frameworks

HR – Women, Rights & Equality

Project Manager

• This seminar-based project management course provides students with an opportunity to develop and apply leadership and project management skills to issues
• This senior level course provides students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of the people, technical, organizational, and leadership challenges and strategies involved in project management
• Successful completion of this course will qualify students to write the Project Management Institute's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® test.
• This course has multiple sections and a common course outline
• This course will be coordinated
• All instructors will be required to follow a proposed course outline.

Project Manager – CTF

Designer

• OL202 is a continuation of the discussion started in OL201 and is intended to capitalize on student’s past work and personal experiences to help reframe them as opportunities for learning about leadership.
• This course continues the discussion of how to integrate academic leadership concepts with a student’s personal narrative.
• Whereas OL201 was mostly focused on one’s own point of view, OL202 will extend this discussion by gathering information from “other” point of view by including discussion of secondary data analysis techniques such as surveying/interviews.
• Academic leadership topics, including followership, ethics, communication skills, and presentation skills will be discussed.
• Finally, the course will focus on the application of the academic leadership content to a student’s personal/professional narrative to integrate the academic information with firsthand experiences.

Designing Leadership Experience

• Develop and apply leadership and project management skills to issues
• Provide an understanding of the people, technical, organizational, and leadership challenges and strategies involved in project management
• Coordinate the course with all instructors required to follow a proposed course outline

Project Management – Internal Posting for CTF Members Only

Consultant

• Support students in developing their career strategy by communicating various tools and frameworks to help them develop focus in terms of career goals and a feasible action plan.
• Provide one-on-one career and employment consulting consistent with the needs of undergraduate and graduate students.
• Assist clients in developing effective employment/job search techniques including skills identification, employer research and networking.
• Support clients in making meaningful career choices through assessing their values, interests, personality and skills.
• Identification of individual client needs and referral to appropriate student support services.
• Research, develop and deliver presentations on career planning and employment preparation.
• Build relationships with students and alumni in mid and senior level positions and facilitate networking opportunities among students and alumni/contacts in industry.
• Proactively seek and research industry and career related resources to ensure that students have current information about specific job markets.

Career Consultant, Diversity Programs

Administration

• Perform a variety of duties, including labour relations and administrative support
• Accuracy is key for collection, coordinating and maintaining consistency and integrity of University faculty data
• Generate compliance reports under the Full-time Faculty and Contract Teaching Faculty (CTF) Collective Agreement
• Assist with research on university collective agreements in preparation for negotiations
• Monitor Faculty Relations inbox, responding to inquiries using provided templates
• Prepare termination acknowledgment letters and employment confirmation letters
• Support the ongoing administration of WLUFA collective agreements
• Process marking/grading allowances in compliance with the CTF Collective Agreement
• Enter faculty data into Banner and support the review of overload contracts
• Prepare confidential official files for review by committees and assist with appointment requests