Faculty
Recruitment
Recruitment processes
- Guide to Faculty and Librarian Recruitment presents essential recruitment steps for faculty members and librarians in chronological order and includes useful templates in the appendices.
- Moving to Victoria: The university offers a number of programs that support your move to Victoria, including dual career couply employment assistance, immigration support, relocation assistance, and rental housing resources.
- Nominee Program allows the province to nominate specific immigrants to meet provincial economic needs.
- View further supports for new faculty and librarians.
Preferential/limited hiring
- Policy on preferential or limited hiring: UVic Policy number HR6110 designed to define guidelines for preferential or limited hiring.
- How to complete a preferential and limited hiring: A web guide to assist those who are submitting an ad for a preferential or limited hire.
New faculty
All new Faculty and Librarians will be auto enrolled in an online Brightspace course that has all the resources you might need in your first year at UVic. Some are highlighted below.
- New faculty and librarian orientation: VPAC should be in touch with you over the summer regarding orientation events in the fall. An event to meet and network with other new colleagues across campus and to hear in-depth information on a variety of administrative processes and procedures.
- Welcome for new faculty: Some of the most important steps the department/faculty can take to support new faculty.
- Mentoring for new faculty: For 1:1 mentor connections, the mentor pairs a new faculty or librarian with an experienced faculty member at all levels and across all disciplines with information events throughout the year.
- Supportive Communities Program: Designed to create opportunities for faculty and librarians to connect, network, teach, and learn from each other.
- Collective agreement: The collective agreement between UVic and the Faculty Association.
Retention
General
- Discrimination and harassment policy: UVic’s policy to address complaints of harassment and discrimination.
- Employment accommodation policy: This policy clarifies UVic’s responsibilities to provide accommodations to employees and job applicants.
Health and wellness
- Faculty Benefits: This document reviews the major provisions of the various benefit plans for regular faculty and librarians.
- Employee & Family Assistance Program: The program provides information, advice and support to help you navigate many of life's milestones.
- Work life consultants: The work life consulting team manages the absence and disability management program (short-term illness/injury, return to work and medical accommodations) and coordinates health promotion initiatives for staff and faculty.
- Balanced living: Our services actively promote practices of inclusion, respect, wellness, accessibility, safety and accommodation as the foundations of our healthy university community.
- Mental health and well being: UVic is committed to fostering environments for work and study that are safe, supportive, inclusive and healthy, encourage mutual respect and civility, while recognizing that people are our primary strength.
- Return to work – stay at work: A collaborative process involving departments, unions, staff and faculty members at UVic. The program provides a planned approach to returning or remaining at work following an injury or illness, whether occupational or non-occupational.
- Multifaith Chapel: The chapel is used primarily by officially recognized university chaplains of Multifaith Services to administer to the religious and spiritual needs of the university community. It was built with the intention of being a sacred space for prayer, meditation, spiritual practice, and worship for the campus community.
- Ergonomics: The ergonomics program at UVic actively promotes practices to ensure the health and safety of all of our employees.
- HR Health and Wellness blog: Events, learning and resources to help employees to promote health, wellness and balanced living.
- Hiring Individuals with Disabilities: A website by the President's Group to promote the benefits and successful approaches to hiring and integrating employees with disabilities into workplaces.
Professional development
- Professional developmnt & training: Review the Vice-President Academic and Provost's site to review some required training as well as optional professional development opportunities to explore.
- Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation: The Learning and Teaching Support and Innovation is at the heart of UVic’s commitment to cultivate an extraordinary academic environment through supporting faculty, instructors and teaching assistants with professional development as well as fostering undergraduates’ academic success.
- Teaching supports: Resources to help further your teaching career at UVic.
- Research supports: Resources to support your research career at UVic.
- Study leaves: Information regarding the forms, polices and processes for applying for study leave.
- Professional development reimbursement: Professional expense reimbursement funds for faculty support learning, professional development, services and equipment.
- Mentoring for new faculty: For 1:1 mentor connections, the mentor pairs a new faculty or librarian with an experienced faculty member at all levels and across all disciplines with information events throughout the year.
Accommodation
General
- Employment accommodation policy: This policy clarifies UVic’s responsibilities to provide accommodations to employees and job applicants.
- Central accommodation fund: The central accommodation fund has been established by the university to help accommodate employees with disabilities and to provide departments with a source of funds to support necessary and reasonable accommodations.
- How to accommodate faculty medical leave: UVic is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse group of exceptionally talented faculty and staff and supporting them in ways that allow them to achieve their highest potential. The university is also committed to the principles and spirit of employment equity and the provisions of the BC Human Rights Code.
- Examples of successful faculty accommodation measures: Examples of real accommodations implemented following medical documentation and discussions with the faculty members and/or chair to creatively remove barriers for faculty members with temporary or permanent medical conditions.
- Mental health and well being: UVic is committed to fostering environments for work and study that are safe, supportive, inclusive and healthy, encourage mutual respect and civility, while recognizing that people are our primary strength.
- Return to work – stay at work: A collaborative process involving departments, unions, staff and faculty members at UVic. The program provides a planned approach to returning or remaining at work following an injury or illness, whether occupational or non-occupational.
- Work life consultants: The work life consulting team manages the absence and disability management program (short-term illness/injury, return to work and medical accommodations) and coordinates health promotion initiatives for staff and faculty.
- WorkSafe BC claims: WorkSafeBC is the operating name of the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia. It is a no-fault insurance system set up through the Worker Compensation Act to protect workers and employers against the financial impact of work related injuries.