Educational Counsellor I

The Student Services department’s role in student success is to create a culture and environment that unleashes the full potential of all the students at SAIT. Our primary goal is to support Student-First Culture, by focusing on student success and mobilizing all campus community members in this shared goal.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager of Student Development and Counselling (SDC) , the Educational Counsellor I is part of the SAIT Academic Faculty Association (SAFA) working 7.25 hours per day, 5 days per week and fully on-campus . SDC Counsellors provide a variety of services to SAIT students including personal, career, educational and crisis counselling, debriefings to student community groups affected by a critical-incidents as well as increasing the capacity of the community to support student well-being. Counsellors attend department meetings, and offer and attend professional development sessions. While this position offers generalized counselling supports related to the variety of student needs presenting to SAIT’s Student Development and Counselling, this position serves the function of specializing in the delivery of crisis counselling and intervention so as to increase the team’s capacity in the area of crisis intervention and critical incident response, offering clinical consultation around complex student situations and working with the Manager to lead debriefings around critical incidents and tragedies affecting the campus and student groups. As a result, this position is expected to be flexible in responding to drop-in counselling requests, working on campus during designated work hours and travelling to satellite campus to offer support when needed.  This position may work during SDC’s extended hours and takes a lead role in clinical consultations around complex student situations and critical incidents when the Manager is unavailable

Job Classification: Educational Counsellor I

Salary Range: $78,382- $103,734

Hours per week : 37.5

Posting End Date : Aug 6, 2025

About SAIT

 

SAIT is a global leader in applied education. Named one of Alberta’s Top Employers , we offer the chance to work with a purpose — preparing the next generation of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, advocates and explorers.

 

Building on our 100+ year history, we’re looking for innovative, bold and collaborative employees who embrace change and deliver world-class customer experiences. Your future starts now at SAIT.

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is essential to achieving SAIT’s vision to be a global leader in applied education. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Learn more about EDI at SAIT. 

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