These government of Canada jobs for students with CSIS are hiring and pay up to $30 an hour

Positions are in communications, finance, IT, HR, and more departments.

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There are a bunch of government of Canada jobs available for students with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

Positions pay up to $30 an hour for college, CEGEP and university students.

The federal intelligence agency is hiring students to work during Summer 2026, from May to August.

Work terms can be four, eight, 12 or 16 months with these CSIS jobs.

There are positions in IT, finance, communications, HR, engineering, foreign languages, and more departments.

To apply, you need to be a Canadian citizen and registered as a full-time post-secondary student at an accredited academic institution in Canada.

All of the positions are available in Ottawa but some are also available in Toronto, Montreal, Burnaby and Edmonton.

The CSIS student salary for college, CEGEP and undergraduate students, the pay is $22.52, $25, $27.66 or $29.94 an hour depending on your work term.

For graduate students, the pay is $25.75, $26.43, $28.25 or $30.45 an hour depending on work terms.

These are all of the student jobs that CSIS is hiring for right now:

  • Analysis & Exploitation of Info Sources
  • Communications
  • External Review and Compliance
  • Finance
  • Foreign Language
  • Human Resources
  • Info Management & Legal Info Management
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Internal Audit and Evaluation
  • IT and Engineering
  • Litigation and Disclosure
  • Policy and Foreign Relations
  • Research and Partnerships Analyst
  • Screening Analyst

You can apply for these government of Canada student jobs until February 14, 2025.

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

CSIS is hiring post-secondary students for these jobs that pay up to $34 an hour

You can work in finance, HR, engineering, communications, IT or other areas.

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You'll help investigate threats to national security. 🔍

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