Job prospects Educational Assistant in Nunavut

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Job opportunities in Nunavut

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be moderate for Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants (NOC 43100) in Nunavut for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a moderate number of new positions.
• A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are several unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• Nunavut has four regional school operations offices: Qikiqtani, Kivalliq, Kitikmeot, and the Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut.
• Each regional school operations office hires its own education employees.
• A housing shortage, particularly in rural communities, is affecting the Territory's ability to recruit and retain qualified educational staff.
• In the 2023-2024 school year, a full-day kindergarten pilot program was introduced at five schools. The program was expanded to seven additional schools for the 2024-2025 school year. 
• Looking beyond the forecast period, the Conference Board of Canada (2024) predicts that this occupation will be in the top ten in terms of all open positions in Nunavut from 2024 to 2045.

Here are some key facts about Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants in Nunavut:

• Approximately 200 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Educational services (NAICS 61): more than 95%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 92% compared to 87% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 8% compared to 13% for all occupations
• 61% of elementary and secondary school teacher assistants work all year, while 39% work only part of the year, compared to 72% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 43 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 15% compared to 51% for all occupations
  • Women: 85% compared to 49% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 34% compared to 37% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 32% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 9% compared to 11% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 17% compared to 15% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: less than 5% compared to 10% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 6% for all occupations

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