Invigilator (Fort Garry Campus and Bannatyne Campus)
The Student Accessibility Services (SAS) is soliciting applications for Invigilators for term positions.
Invigilation: Invigilation involves the delivery and collection of tests and exams, supervision of students during tests and exams, dealing with student concerns and questions, seeking out instructors to answer student questions, delivering time prompts to students, ensuring the integrity of the test/exam situation, keeping time during tests and exams, and completing SAS paperwork regarding tests/exams.
Scribe/Reader: Scribes and Readers provide assistance for students with reading, writing or typing their tests, exams, course work, and assignments. Scribing/ Reading takes place in many different forms, including reading exam questions, typing test answers onto a computer, filling in a computer bubble sheet for a student, reading a test/exam onto an audiotape, etc.
Front Desk Coverage: At times, Invigilators will be asked to answer phones and walk-in inquiries at the front desk of the SAS office. Invigilators will be responsible for taking messages, booking appointments and making referrals only. Invigilators will not have access to confidential files on SAS premises.
Qualifications:
- Must be in the 4th year of their program or have completed at least one degree.
- Available for flexible hours
- Ability to work independently
- General understanding of working with people with disabilities
- Willing to work as a team
Salary: $11.00/hour (+ vacation pay)
Drop off resume on or before July 30, 2013 to:
Student Accessibility Services
c/o Charity Pascual - 155 University Centre
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
FAX: (204) 261-7732
Email: Charity.Pascual@ad.umanitoba.ca
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
Computerized Notetakers
The University of Manitoba is soliciting applications for Computerized Notetakers for term positions.
Position: To provide computerized note taking services for Hard of Hearing, Deaf, and Deaf/Blind students enrolled at the University of Manitoba. Under the direction of the Accessibility Advisor, Student Accessibility Services, the incumbent is responsible for facilitating communication in classroom lectures, tutors, labs, meetings, presentations, graduation, student conversations, small/large group interactions and University of Manitoba Student Association functions. The computerized notetaker must adhere to the University of Manitoba policies and standards.
Qualifications:
- Must be able to type 80 wpm
- Available for flexible hours
- Ability to work independently
- General understanding of working with Hard of Hearing/Deaf/Blind individuals
- Willing to work as a team
Salary Range: $15.00 to $20.14/hour
Apply in writing to: Carolyn Christie, Student Accessibility Services, University of Manitoba, 155 University Centre, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Fax: (204) 261-7732, Email: Carolyn.christie@ad.umanitoba.ca
Volunteer Notetakers
If you are interested in helping a student with a disability by sharing your class notes, please stop by the Student Accessibility Services Test/Exam Centre at 155 University Centre for more information or e-mail us at student_accessibility@umanitoba.ca.
For more information on volunteering or to sign up, please go to our VNT Sign-Up Form.
Volunteer Opportunity – Become a Best Buddy!
Best Buddies – Vrais Copains Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to enhancing our communities through one-to-one friendships between individuals with intellectual disabilities and students. Best Buddies is grounded in the belief that friendship is important to the development of all individuals and that for all individuals with intellectual disabilities friendship is a medium through which they can become a part of their communities.
About the Program: Our program gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to have experiences which most people take for granted - going for coffee, out to a movie, or simply enjoying the company of a good friend. To this end, Best Buddies establishes chapters at high schools, universities and colleges across the country. At each chapter students are matched with individuals with intellectual disabilities who share similar interests. The "Buddy Pairs" call each other weekly and get together approximately twice a month. Four times a year all the Buddy Pairs at a chapter hold a group activity. Each chapter is managed by a student volunteer, who is assisted by a person with an intellectual disability, a Buddy Advocate, where possible.
Get involved! Best Buddies provides all participants with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a new friend. We have chapters in every province in Canada. To speak with someone further about how you can get involved, contact them toll-free at 1-888-779-0061 or e-mail them at info@bestbuddies.ca.
There are several ways that you can help Best Buddies Canada enhance our communities through one-to-one friendships between people with intellectual disabilities and students.