Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your interest in applying to a faculty position at McGill University. McGill believes that diversity among within our workforce is a matter both of fairness and of enriching the advancement of our academic mission. Opportunities for intellectual, academic, and professional growth flourish in communities that reflect a diverse set of social identities and experiences.
McGill welcomes and encourages applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and LGBTT2SQ* persons, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.
McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages all applicants to self-identify as part of the application process. Accordingly, we ask applicants to please complete the equity and diversity survey below. Data you provide will be treated as strictly confidential, and will be used by the search committee and by the Provost's office for the sole purpose of ensuring adherence to McGill's Academic Recruitment Guidelines.
For more information, Please also consult McGill’s Employment Equity Guidelines.
Thank you for your participation.
Professor Christopher P. Manfredi Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic)
For the purposes of employment equity, women are a designated group.
For the purposes of employment equity, Indigenous persons of North America are a designated group. Included in this category are First Nations (status or non-status), Inuit, and Métis as well as Native Americans and Alaskan Natives in the USA.
If you answered “yes”, please check those that apply to you:
For the purposes of employment equity, “persons with disabilities” are a designated group. “Persons with disabilities” refers to people who have a long-term, persistent or recurring physical, mental, sensory, psychiatric or learning impairment and who either consider themselves to be disadvantaged in employment because of that impairment and the functional limitations it causes, or who believe that an employer might consider them to be disadvantaged.
Persons with disabilities include those who have been accommodated in their current job because of their functional limitations (e.g., by means of technical aids, changes to equipment or other working arrangements).
Physical disability or impairment, such as:
• Coordination/dexterity impairment • Mobility impairment • Speech impairment • Hearing impairment • Visual impairment
Invisible disability or impairment, such as:
• Learning disability or intellectual impairment • Psychiatric/mental illness • Non-visible physical impairment • Developmental impairment
For the purposes of employment equity, racialized persons/visible minorities are a designated group. This group refers to people (other than Indigenous peoples) who are racialized or non-white, regardless of their place of birth or citizenship.
* Please note that we have chosen the following terms because these are used in the Canadian census. Using terminology consistent with the census will help the University to compare representation, measure progress and set goals.
i. Sexual Orientation
ii. Gender Identity
Thank you for taking the time to complete this census. All information that you provide is confidential and will be used for Employment Equity purposes only. Please refer to the Employment Equity website for more information.