Careers at NLC

Additional Information:

Practicum Administrator
Salary: $64,032 to $84,012 per year
Location: Slave Lake
August 5, 2025 to ongoing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Social Work are the minimum requirements;
• Active registration with the Alberta College of Social Work (RSW) is required;
• Excellent communication and organizational skills;
• Ability to work well independently and in team environment;
• Understanding of Addictions Counselling, Social Work, and Child and Youth Care programs;
• Knowledge of external agencies and related programs to facilitate student placements.
• A combination of education, training and experience may be considered.

Nature and Scope of Work

This position’s primary responsibility is to provide planning, support, and monitoring of program student placement needs. Collaborating with the Coordinator, the incumbent will liaise with students and agencies to establish suitable practicum placements, ensuring required documentation and paperwork is completed. While other programs may be included from time to time, this position primarily supports the Addictions Counselling, Social Work, and Child and Youth Care diploma programs. Competencies and tasks of the position will be consistent with the educational principles of the College, which focus on meeting the learning needs of students. 

Duties and Responsibilities

Collaborate with the program Chair and Coordinators to plan, advise and monitor program needs specific to student placements:

• Maintain academic records.
• Assist with ensuring students have the necessary resources to be successful.
• Attend meetings as required.

Collaborate with Chair, Coordinators and Instructors to facilitate suitable and relevant placements for students:

• Research and recommend potential practicum placement sites and provide information to instructors, department chairs, coordinators, instructors and students.
• Consult with instructors to assign students with preceptors, as necessary.
• Support the process of obtaining, updating, and acquiring student placement agreements.

Maintain Accurate Student Records: 

• Record current, relevant student information.
• Oversee and maintain a database of relevant student placement agencies. 
• Maintain up to date inventory of student information. 
• Compose written communication to students as needed. 
• Verify student records to confirm all College program and practicum placement requirements are met (e.g., criminal record and vulnerable sector search, immunizations, First Aid and CPR certification, WCB coverage, etc.).

Accountability:

This position reports to the Chair, Community Studies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Communication:

• Demonstrates effective listening, written and oral communication skills, communicates clearly and knowledgeably, shares and exchanges information with others, seeks input from others, appropriately adapts communications to diverse audiences, protects private and confidential information.

Teamwork

• Builds productive working relationships, collaborates with colleagues, treats others with respect, and has good conflict resolution skills.  Maintains appropriate working relationships within the College community.

Quality & Effectiveness

• Understands the value of keeping organized and meeting timelines.  Improves processes and practices by identifying inefficiencies and redundancies, demonstrates attention to detail, efficiency and quality in one’s work, and is flexible within a work environment that experiences change. 

Problem Solving

• Makes clear, transparent, timely decisions within the scope of duties, analyzes and prioritizes work situations to identify and solve problems.
• Works independently within established guidelines.
• Finds suitable placements for students.

Service Focus

• Understands the importance and impact of providing timely and quality service, delivers quality service to a diverse student population, anticipates, adapts and fulfills student needs, refers students to related resources, strives for continuous quality improvement.
• Coordinates and schedules placements with placement sites and ensure contracts are accurate and signed by the delegated authority.
• Ensures that placements meet the requirements for accreditation with program specific regulatory bodies.
• Ensures that students have obtained all requirements and pre-requisites prior to the start of the placement.

Ability to Adapt

• Prioritizes actions effectively in order to respond to numerous, diverse challenges and demands. Manages emotions during times of change or stress.  Provides resolution and flexibility to meet or adjust to differing priorities.  

Inclusiveness

• Demonstrates empathy and respect for people.

Technological Experience

• Demonstrates skills and knowledge in the use of information technology (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, Bongo, Brightspace).

Reliability

• Personally responsible; has initiative and self-motivation; completes work in a timely, consistent manner; is punctual.

Successful candidate must provide University or College Transcripts to Human Resources prior to commencement.

Please submit a resume quoting the reference number NLC-2207 to:

Northern Lakes College, Human Resources, 1201 Main Street SE, Slave Lake, AB  T0G 2A3

Alternatively, fax resume to 780 849-5881

Closing Date: June 11, 2025

Northern Lakes College thanks all applicants for their interest in employment; however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.