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March 22, 2026 Workday Recruiting

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Login to your UBC career account to set up your job alert. Your account login will depend on the role you're seeking:

Current UBC employees

If you are an active UBC employee, you must create an account and then activate Job Alerts (available via the top right corner once you're logged in) you will not be able to log in with your regular CWL credentials, but must create a new account within the external UBC Careers site. However, if you are an internal applicant, do not apply for a job through the external career site. Instead, login to your employee Workday profile and use the Career application to apply in order be recognized by the system as an internal candidate.

Job Categories

You can filter your job alert by job category. Learn about the different job categories at UBC for when you set up your job alert.

Academic

This job category incudes professorship positions and roles for academic leadership. 

Includes positions in the three ranks of professorship:

  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor

There are also two streams of professoriate:

  • research
  • educational leadership

In addition to the varied ranks and streams, several types of professorship are also included, such as:

  • tenure-track
  • grant-tenure
  • without review
  • clinical
  • fellow
  • adjunct
  • affiliate
  • honorary
  • teaching
  • lecturer
  • librarian  

Includes academic leadership positions not categorized such as Executive, including Associate Dean, some Associate Provosts, Associate University Librarian, Program Director, and Head. 

Includes Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Associates.

An academic position can be inside or outside the bargaining unit.
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Contingent Worker (JFG)

Do not use. 

These positions are non-employees filled through the procurement process, and are not posted via recruiting.

Executive

President, Vice President (including Provost), Associate Vice President, some Associate Provosts, University Counsel, and Senior Advisor to the President. 

Includes business executive positions, as well as academic executive positions requiring a concurrent academic appointment.

Paymaster

Do not use. 

These are positions at organizations outside of UBC, for which UBC only provides a payroll service.  No openings will be posted within UBC for these positions.  For positions within UBC in the payroll function, look for positions in Staff – Union, and Staff – Non Union.

Staff – Non Union

Includes managerial and professional positions, as well as support roles in locations that are not unionized. 

Managerial positions include those positions who directly hire staff, direct funds, and determine organizational policy. 

Professional positions include:

  • accounting
  • educational programming
  • human resources
  • information technology
  • marketing
  • legal
  • athletic coaches
  • athletic program delivery
  • professional research support in a non-academic role
  • engineering
  • nursing, facilities management positions requiring a degree
  • roles that lead administrative functions

Non-union support positions include:

  • farm workers in Agassiz
  • models working in visual arts
  • administrative support in a non-union environment such as a VP’s office
  • research support positions categorized as Research Assistant Technicians and Engineering Technicians in faculties that are non-union
  • Health professionals without an academic appointment, including non-teaching physicians

Staff – Union

This category includes roles for administrative support, non-academic library support, research support, trades, etc. 

Includes administrative support positions described as:

  • clerk
  • secretary
  • front counter
  • assistant
  • financial processing specialist
  • some coordinators

Includes trades at various levels of credential, including:

  • carpenter
  • operating engineer
  • cook
  • labourer

Includes non-academic library support positions. 

Includes student employees working in the UBC Aquatic Centre as:

  • Lifeguard/Instructor
  • Head Guard
  • Clerk 2
  • Shift Supervisor

Includes research support positions categorized as Research Assistant Technicians and Engineering Technicians in locations that are unionized. 

Also includes a patrolperson, dental hygenist, and a variety of theatre technician and theatre support positions.

Includes sub-head positions in the trades, as well as other unionized roles involving some planning.  Includes various locations including both Point Grey and Okanagan Campuses. 

Student (JFG)

Do not use. 

Student positions at UBC are posted at the departmental level within academic and business units.  Student vacancies are not posted on the Careers UBC web page, with the exception of staff positions in the UBC Aquatic Centre normally given to students (see Staff – Union).

Survivor and Retiree With Benefits JFG

Do not use. 

This is a category of non-employees in a benefits category for which no positions are posted.

Job Type

You can filter your job alert by job type. Job Type reflects a combination of characteristics about bargaining unit and job performance.

Auxiliary (Ongoing)

Includes positions in job titles formally categorized as auxiliary (i.e. supplementary and casual roles) in BCGEU Vancouver, CUPE 116, and a smaller number of positions in AAPS and CUPE 2950. These positions do not have a fixed end date.

Auxiliary (Term) (Fixed Term)

Includes positions that are largely in BCGEU Okanagan, CUPE 116, and a smaller number of positions in AAPS and CUPE 2950. These positions have a fixed end date.

Contingent Worker

Do not use. 

There are no job postings under this job type.

CUPE 2950 Sessional

Includes a variety of CUPE 2950 and CUPE 116 positions that are active for a particular time period of the year. Examples may include summer session student support positions, or positions supporting the conferences and accommodation operations in the Point Grey campus which are only active in summer.

CUPE 2950 Temporary / Leave Replacement (Fixed Term)

Includes position in the CUPE 2950 bargaining unit which have a fixed end date. Includes a broad variety of positions within that bargaining unit.  Some CUPE 2950 term positions are also posted under the job type Term (Fixed Term).

Ongoing

Includes a variety of positions in a wide range of employment types including union, non-union, academic, and non-academic positions.  The main distinction between Ongoing and Term (Fixed Term) positions is whether they have an end date.

Term (Fixed Term)

Includes a variety of positions with a fixed end date in a wide range of employment types including union, non-union, academic, and non-academic positions. The main distinction between Ongoing and Term (Fixed Term) positions is whether they have an end date. Some CUPE 2950 term positions are also posted under the job type CUPE 2950 Temporary / Leave Replacement (Fixed Term). 

Unpaid (Ongoing)

Do not use. 

There are no job postings under this job type.

Unpaid (Term) (Fixed Term)

Do not use. 

There are no job postings under this job type.

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How to Get Hired at UBC

  • UBC uses Workday Recruiting on its own tenant at ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com, with separate Staff (ubcstaffjobs) and Faculty (ubcfacultyjobs) job boards that share a single candidate profile.
  • There are five practical hiring tracks: Faculty (UBC Faculty Association), CUPE 2950 clerical and library staff, CUPE 116 technical and trades staff, AAPS Management and Professional staff, and Postdoctoral and Sessional appointments. The track determines the entire process, from posting period to interview format to offer timeline.
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