Apply for a teaching or school administrator job

You’ll find helpful information about eligibility, certification, priority hiring and security clearance in this section.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a teaching or school administrator job, you must:

• be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; and
• have a Canadian teaching certificate and licence number.

Priority hiring

We hire teachers based on the following priority order from the Yukon Association of Education Professionals collective agreement (Article 49.01):

• persons of Yukon First Nation ancestry not already employed as a teacher, or existing teachers of Yukon First Nations ancestry seeking to return to their traditional territory as a teacher or school administrator;
• indeterminate teachers with 3 or more years of continuous service in the same school;
• other indeterminate teachers; and
• other applicants.

Catholic school priority hiring

For Catholic schools, we continue to apply a preference for Catholic applicants.

Teacher and administrator selection

We hire teachers and administrators based on:

• qualifications and experience criteria listed in job postings; and
• teacher qualifications, including:
  • education;
  • experience;
  • knowledge;
  • skills and abilities; and
  • personal suitability.

Yukon certification

If you do not have your Yukon certification when you're hired, you'll have to get it by a specific deadline. This is a requirement of your job and is valid throughout Canada. You can get this anytime during your application process.

Learn how to get a Yukon teacher certificate.

Security clearance

Once we hire you, you must complete and submit a vulnerable sector check. Follow these steps.

1. Visit your local police detachment with 2 pieces of identification.
2. Follow the instructions the police detachment gives you to complete the process. The fee for a vulnerable sector check can vary. Ask the police detachment about the cost.
3. Bring the original vulnerable sector check to Department of Education's Human Resources Branch.
   In person: Education Building (entrance to parking is on Hospital Road), 1000 Lewes Boulevard in Whitehorse. We’re open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Your vulnerable sector check is valid for 2 years from the date the police verifies the search. You must keep it current, even if it expires in the middle of a school year.