Role Details
Project Name: Project Management and Development of an AI-Based UBC Teaching and Learning Tool on Ethics And EDI
Deadline to apply: April 30, 2025, 11:59pm PST, but candidates will be contacted on a rolling basis
Application Instructions: Interested applicants are asked to send their CV and a brief statement of interest (optional) to sielmann@mail.ubc.ca as soon as possible.
Project Description
A part-time graduate academic assistant is needed to support the development of a Canvas-integrated, Generative AI chatbot service designed to support teaching and learning in ethics, EDI, decolonization, and sustainability. This is a TLEF-funded initiative planned to run from April 2025 – April 2027.
Student Role
An excellent learning opportunity to impact the learning environment at UBC, the academic assistant will engage with senior programmers, undergraduate academic assistants, engineering Capstone teams, community stakeholders, and a diverse team of professors. Job responsibilities include:
- Providing technical guidance and direct implementation support for the project, primarily in Python
- Project and task management
- Maintaining project requirements with support from project investigators
- Meeting regularly with project team members, including supervising two undergraduate academic assistants
- Preparing presentations and documentation as needed
Preferred Qualifications
We are accepting applications from students of all disciplines (i.e., non-engineering candidates are invited to apply). The ideal candidate will be able to develop or already have the following skills:
- Project management, ideally in software-related projects (e.g., Agile)
- Web-based application development
- Programming in Python
- Training or fine tuning generative artificial intelligent models
- Designing for user experience
- Pedagogical applications of generative AI in teaching and learning
- Knowledge of or experience with design methodologies, in particular design thinking
- Proficiency with environmental concepts, sustainability, social concepts, decolonization, Indigenization, and ethics
Other Information
Position duration: The work will begin immediately and run until April 3rd, 2026, with an option for extension. The academic assistant will be assigned a total of 300 hours of work during the employment period.
Position location: The candidate will be required to participate in in-person and on-line meetings and presentations. Work may be done remotely (within BC) for duties that do not require in-person attendance.
Position funding: Hourly compensation is set between $31.00 and $35.00 depending on the candidate’s experience and experience. Funding for this position is provided by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
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.
