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July 12, 2026 at 11:59 PMThis job advertisement is to fill an existing vacancy in the CUPE4207-1 (Employee Group)
SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS
Compensation
Teaching Assistant, Course Coordinator and Lab Demonstrator positions are paid according to the qualifications that the employee holds.
Employees who do NOT hold a 4-year honours degree or a 3-year pass degree will be paid the undergraduate rate - $ per hour.
Employees who hold a 4-year honours degree or a 3-year pass degree will be paid the graduate rate - $ per hour.
In cases where additional duties are required as part of a Teaching Assistant’s duties, these hours shall be compensated at the appropriate Teaching Assistant rate.
Duties
The nominal workload for this position is 10 hours per week (6 hours demonstrating, 4 hours of marking and lab preparation). Duties and responsibilities will be in accordance with Article 22 of the Collective Agreement. Under the direction of the Senior Lab Instructor, the incumbent is required to be familiar with laboratory procedures and present an introduction to the lab, demonstrate laboratory techniques, teach and assist students during the lab, maintain safe lab conditions, be responsible for lab preparation and cleanup, mark lab reports, and attend meetings as needed.
Qualifications
- An undergraduate degree in Health Sciences or a related discipline is required.
- For Brock undergraduate applicants, the incumbent must be in their fourth year (honours) and must have completed this course successfully.
- R statistical programming knowledge, including tidyverse packages (dplyr, ggplot2) for data manipulation and visualization.
- Familiarity with the analysis of administrative and clinical health databases (, CIHI data holdings) or population health surveys (, CCHS, NHANES) and core methods (data cleaning, cohort creation, descriptive statistics, and regression modelling of binary and time-to-event outcomes).
- Prior experience teaching or demonstrating in a statistical computing or data analysis lab is an asset.
- The successful applicant must have effective communication skills, including the ability to explain technical material to students and provide constructive feedback, be punctual in attending classes, and meet appropriate deadlines.
- Experience or training with synchronous and asynchronous course support.
- Proficiency with online delivery tools (, Microsoft Teams, Brightspace).
- Available to provide feedback in person and, when required, online.