Working with Vantage Faculty & Staff
Current positions within Vantage College are described below. For additional opportunities within UBC, please view the faculty and staff postings on the UBC Careers page.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, English for Academic Purposes, VANT 140, Vantage One Engineering
UBC Vantage College is hiring one Graduate Teaching Assistant to assist in VANT 140 in the Vantage One Engineering Program. This position may involve up 24 hours and is available for 2025-2026 Winter Term 2
UBC Vantage College offers first-year curriculum in a cohort program to academically strong international multilingual students whose English language proficiency does not yet meet the English language requirements for direct admission into UBC degrees. Students take courses in one of the Vantage One programs (Science, Engineering or Arts) before transferring into second year in their degree program. The primary goals of the Vantage One curriculum are: (1) to encourage students’ cultural, linguistic, and academic engagement in disciplinary communities and (2) to maximize students’ successful transition to Year Two in the Faculties of Science, Applied Science or Arts. For more information about the Vantage One programs, please see https://vantagecollege.ubc.ca/overview-programs
VANT 140 (Content and Language Enrichment Tutorials) focuses on academic English specific to the Engineering courses taught in that program (i.e. APSC 160, APSC 172, APSC 182, APSC 173, APSC 178, and APSC 183). A complete description of the Vantage One Engineering program can be found here: https://vantagecollege.ubc.ca/engineering
Duties
The Graduate Teaching Assistant supports the academic English instructors with teaching, assessment and feedback, as well as coordination, with an emphasis on qualitative feedback, tutoring and marking. Duties may include attending regular program/course meetings/classes, holding office hours, providing student feedback where applicable, conducting research to support materials design, attending mandatory training sessions and marking/collaborating in assignment and exam design, as well as potentially designing and facilitating study skills workshops with students.
Qualifications
The Graduate Teaching Assistants must be registered as a full-time graduate student at UBC. Formal training and teaching in TESOL or Applied Linguistics is an asset.
In addition, given the focus on specific disciplinary written and/or oral practices linked to engineering content, familiarity and prior experience with any or a combination of Physics/APSC 178 – Electricity, Magnetism and Waves is also an asset for applicants interested in this position.
Application instructions
Previous/current VANT 140 & APSC 178 TAs may apply in writing to employment@vantagecollege.ubc.ca indicating your interest in the position and availability.
For other applicants, the following application materials must be sent to the following e-mail: employment@vantagecollege.ubc.ca. Please send as separate Word or .pdf files, using this file-naming convention: LASTNAME, Firstname_Application Form; LASTNAME, Firstname_CV; etc. Use the subject heading “Graduate Teaching Assistant – VANT 140, Vantage One Engineering”. Review of applications will begin December 22, 2025. Applications will continue to be accepted until the position has been filled.
All Applicants are required to include the following in their application package:
- a completed Vantage College VANT 140 ENG GTA Application Form
- curriculum vitae, including a list of all teaching related activities,
- evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g. teaching evaluations), if available
For questions about this position, please contact the Director of our Academic English Program, Dr. Sandra Zappa-Hollman: sandra.zappa@ubc.ca
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.