Staff Employment

Employment at UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research is announced exclusively through UBC Human Resources, with the exception of academic and summer student positions.

Faculty Positions

No academic positions currently posted.

For other opportunities, please see the UBC Centre for Plant Research page. If there are no positions posted, there are none available at this time.

Work Study Student Positions

The Garden often hires UBC students for work study positions through UBC’s Work Study and Work Learn programs. All positions through these programs can be found and applied for through UBC’s Student Career Services department.

Summer Student Positions

Students are hired for available summer positions in a wide range of area from marketing to horticulture at BC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research based on the following criteria:

• Horticulture employment is limited to returning first, second and third year students enrolled in a recognized Agriculture, Botany, Horticulture or Plant Biology program at UBC or another university/college, and to returning UBC Masters of Landscape Architecture students
• preference will be given to UBC students, and to students who have not had previous summer employment at UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
• the term of employment is generally May to August

Summer positions are generally posted at the end of March each year.

Please apply directly with resume and covering letter by closing date in April to:

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research
6804 Southwest Marine Drive
Vancouver, British Columbia

V6T 1Z4

Please mark clearly on the envelope: "Summer Student Job Application"