Outdoor Camp Educator

Posted by Trackers Earth on 06/03/2024

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Outdoor Camp Educator Job Basics

Industry Sector: Action/Adventure, Fishing, Lifestyle, Outdoor, WaterSports
Job Type: Seasonal Full-Time
Job Categories: Camp Staff & Counselors, Guide (raft,fish,bike hunt,horse etc.), Outdoor Education
Salary: Variable
Required to Relocate: Yes
Required to Travel: Yes
Employee May Telecommute: No
State: California
Job Seeker Must Live Within: -
City: Portland, OR
Required Experience: 0 - 1 year

Outdoor Camp Educator Job Description & Requirements

Join Trackers Earth and be part of the Best Camps in the Known Universe.

Trackers Earth is a youth organization that inspires kids to navigate real challenges. We believe they can truly contribute, developing the grit and character they need to thrive! Kids learn old-school outdoor skills: wilderness survival, farm craft, wild foraging, fishing, martial arts, boating, and more. Our immersive programs are filled with epic story and adventure. We do more in one day than most camps do all summer!

Opportunity
Help us create the premier outdoor youth program locally and worldwide. Your role? A Trackers Educator and Guide serves our families and studies. They get outdoors to teach and be make our programs go! Engage as an educator and choose to teach...

Forest Craft, Archery & Wilderness Survival
Farm Craft, Animal Care & Wild Plants
Mariners Craft, Fishing & Boating
Outdoor Adventure, Kayaking & Climbing
Woodworking, Ceramics, Blacksmithing & more!

Trackers offers both seasonal and full-time, year-round roles. Positions are limited, we encourage you to apply for a variety of options.

Please apply on our company website: https://trackersearth.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=89

Available - Seasonal roles:

Seasonal roles at Trackers include Leads and Coordinators. Coordinators teach and mentor groups of kids while leads assist them. A Coordinator+ manages a team of Coordinators. Both Leads and Coordinators have Day or Overnight options.

Lead Educator Teach kids outdoors while sharing new skills and assisting Coordinators. Required: Enthusiasm to teach outdoors. 16 years & up. $17.25-$23.25 hourly (Day or Overnight).
Coordinator Educator Guide kids outdoors while also managing assistant staff. Required: 1+ years in Outdoor Education. 18 years & up. $745-$785 weekly (Day), $1,175 weekly (Overnight).
Coordinator+ Manage a team of Day Camp Coordinators. Required: 1+ years in Outdoor Education, 1+ years management, CDL Class B (we help you get this). 21 years & up. $940 weekly/Seasonal.

Available - Year-round, Full-Time roles:

Year-round roles with Trackers include supervisors. They teach school year mentoring programs, implementing its programming and overseeing assistant staff. They also plan and prepare for break camps—managing this programming for the summer. Required: 2+ years in Outdoor Education, 1+ year management, CDL Class B (we help you get this). 21 years & up. $45,760 - $51,140 yearly, PTO & full benefits.

Supervisor & Educator (Site) Manage and organize break camp sites. Teach in school-year mentoring programs.
Supervisor & Educator (Specialty) Manage and organize specialty teams: choose early childhood, bushcraft, farm, fishing, or outdoor adventure. Teach in school-year mentoring programs.
More Opportunities Additional opportunities include General Manager for growth regions and other aspects of the Trackers Leadership.

Other Trackers Benefits include:

Career and professional development.
Community of mentors with exciting training in original outdoor skills.
25% off all Trackers Earth programs (staff only).
Save with industry discounts and pro-deals.
Free camp for 2 kids (Grade K-5) for Coordinator & higher!

Locations:

As a seasonal educator with Trackers, you are not assigned to an officially fixed worksite.

Leads Meets at field site. With free shuttle usually available from Check-In/Check-Out location.
Interns, Coordinators & Supervisor Meets morning or afternoon at Check-In/Check-Out locations.

Training:

Our flexible training times going into summer accommodates school year schedules. Part of your training may occur online, while others sections are in-person and in the field. Please Note Training pays Minimum Wage. During your normal teaching and work schedule your regular pay scale applies.

Schedule:

We have different training and programming options to suit various schedules.

About Trackers

Since 2004, kids and extended families in all their forms have journeyed on adventures with Trackers Earth and our Guides. We share the Arts of Tracking through stewardship and enduring outdoor skills. We commit to developing opportunity by respecting the diverse cultures and values of every Guide, youth, and family serving with us. We endeavor to grow with families for the increased accessibility of these experiences. We define ourselves by an ever deeper kinship to the more than human world, multi-generational character, and the principles discovered and found in the quietest moments with the forest.

About Trackers Earth

Trackers is a team of expert educators, and a community. We are made up of compassionate individuals who believe kids (and adults) should have real adventures in the natural world.

At Trackers we are champions of land and village. We are navigators of an epic world that needs to exist, sharing passion and respect for the land and a timeless human story.

Trackers is a family organization. We are not simply limited to one family. Like a true village, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandpas from many different kinds of families work side-by-side for the greater good. We value instilling care and respect for the natural world and the community we serve. With Trackers you often get the feeling of "old friends that just met".

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Trackers is a team of expert educators, and a community. We are made up of compassionate individuals who believe kids (and adults) should have real adventures in the natural world.

At Trackers we are champions of land and village. We are navigators of an epic world that needs to exist, sharing passion and respect for the land and a timeless human story.

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