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UNB Summer Employment Program
Program Objective
The UNB Summer Employment Program is a project funded by the New Brunswick Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour. The intention of this program is to provide students with employment related to their skills and education. Approved jobs aim to enhance the students' employment prospects upon completion of their studies, while enabling them to finance the continuation of their education.
Program Description & Job Requirements
The program is designed to assist undergraduate students from under-represented groups (aboriginals, persons with disabilities, low-income earners, first generation post-secondary learners, young males and youth from rural communities) with the high costs associated with post-secondary education.
Each project submitted must provide a student employee with:
- Adequate (daily) supervision, direction, and feedback from a supervisor.
- A detailed job description with clearly defined tasks, objectives, and goals.
- We suggest that projects offer a developmental position; one that allows a candidate to build new skills, acquire new knowledge, or enhance existing knowledge and skills (eg. employment related skills, lab techniques, research experience, or professional/office experience, etc.), rather than a position requiring student candidates to come to a department already possessing advanced skills.
- A schedule that follows the dates listed in the Important Dates section.
- Positions must not violate any union or collective bargaining regulations.
We do not approve proposals that will likely not be completed during the time frame granted.
We do not permit requests for a particular GPA or for the candidate to have ‘attained a grade of X’ in a particular course. You may, however, ask for a student who has ‘successfully completed’ a particular course, if it is directly related to your job description. Should you wish to review the academic background of an interviewed applicant in order to satisfy one of the constraints of your job description, you will need the student’s signed permission. The goal of UNB Work-Study positions is to assist students in demonstrated financial need, rather than reward students who achieve academic excellence.
All Summer Employment projects are posted as "open competitions". This means any eligible, qualified candidate can apply to a posted position and they will have an equal chance of being considered. You may not pre-select a candidate before the interview nor give any candidate the impression that he or she can have the position before the application and interview process. In addition, you may not interview any candidates until you receive the formal package of resumes.
Eligible Student Candidates
Eligible candidates are full-time students (registered in three or more classes) attending UNB, who have met the minimum GPA requirement of 2.0 and are not on academic probation. (Students who will be off-campus, for example, participating in an internship, a co-op work term, writing their thesis from home or working in a practicum are not eligible.)
Eligible candidates are Canadian Citizens, Landed Immigrants or International students (exchange students are not eligible).
Students must complete a Financial Assessment interview with Financial Aid. This looks at their financial resources (summer employment, scholarships, assistance from supporters, etc.) and their financial commitments (tuition, books, accommodation, food, transportation, etc). As long as their financial commitments exceed their current resources a student should be deemed eligible. These are the terms under which the funding is granted (i.e. it must be given to students in financial need). Students must also complete a Resume and Cover Letter workshop with Student Employment Service. Dates and times of workshops are on the Student Employment Services website.
Please note: According to the Employment of Graduate Students Guidelines graduate students in either a thesis-based or course-based program studying full time can be employed for no more than 10 hours per week. There is no restriction on work hours for part-time students. Generally, graduate students in a course-based program taking three or more courses are considered full-time.
After being deemed eligible, student candidates may review the Summer Employment positions and bring their cover letters and resumes to Student Employment Service; students can apply for as many as eight positions. NOTE: Resumes may not be collected at your office.
Cost to Faculty, Staff, or Department
UNB Summer Employment Program positions are 36.25 hours per week for 12 weeks. Students will be paid $11.20 per hour plus vacation, holiday pay = $12.00 per hour. Project holders will be calculated as:
12 weeks x 36.25 hours per week x $4.00/hour = $1740.00
This program will be administered by Student Employment Service, Financial aid and Counselling Services and the objectives are:
- To help students with demonstrated financial need
- To provide students with career-related job experiences
- To provide students with career guidance and employment readiness skills through: Mandatory Resume and Cover Letter Writing Workshops, and the Career Development Certificate Program
- To provide UNB departments, faculty, and staff with student employees at subsidized labour costs.
Deadline to Apply for Funding: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 4 PM
