The Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) recognizes the importance of attracting, recruiting, and retaining a diverse group of quality candidates that can support the board in creating unparalleled, agile, and inclusive learning experiences for all. The UGDSB is committed to:

• Recruiting and selecting qualified staff who have demonstrated experience and a commitment to creating a safe, inclusive, equitable, accessible, and high-quality learning environment

• Setting clear recruitment and selection criteria

• Actively seeking diverse candidates, including those from under-represented groups, to reflect the diversity of our student population

• Providing a bias-free, equitable, fair, and transparent recruitment and selection process for all employment opportunities

• Ensuring that no candidate receives preferential treatment during the recruitment and selection process as a result of nepotism or other conflicts of interest

• Promoting diversity among the recruitment and selection panels where possible that draw on different educational and professional backgrounds, experiences and skill sets

• Upholding the requirements in Regulation 298, Operation of Schools – General, the Ontario Human Rights Code and/or any other applicable legislation

• Honouring the recruitment and selection criteria found within collective agreements, terms and conditions of employment, and other legislation, as applicable

• Providing and maintaining a safe and secure learning and working environment for students and employees.

First adopted:  June 2024
Revision history: 

• 420-Recruitment-and-Selection-Policy

• 420-A-Recruitment-and-Selection-Procedures-and-Appendix-A

  • Conflict-of-Interest-Declaration-Form-420-A-Appendix-A

• 420-B-Criminal-Record-Check-Offence-Declaration-Procedures