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WILDERNESS SKILLS INSTRUCTOR/CAMP COUNSELOR - SEASONAL -

STARTS early June 2024 - End of August 2024

Bend Area (Sisters, Redmond) - Oregon.
PT availability

Looking ahead to your summer plans...

For you:

$19.00-24.00 - DOE
Outside with kids all summer
Learn and Teach Bushcraft and Survival Skills to kids age 6 to 14.
Join a team from multiple states and connect with a larger summer camp and bushcraft community.
Increase your experience in outdoors work.
Increase your experience with outdoor experiential education.

Requirements:

Ability to work effectively and dynamically with young people aged 6 - 14
Outdoor skills with bushcraft, survival, outdoor recreation, etc… (background preferred but need not be ‘expert’).
Deliver outdoor skill content curriculum confidently and effectively.
Ability to work independently and communicate as a team member.
Maintain and administer an organized camp
Willing and able to drive to work sites that may be at various locations.
FT must be able to commit to full summer work from early June through end of August.
All instructors are background checked.

The Daily Work:

40 and 32.5 hour work weeks (day camp only)
Lead and teach groups of kids outdoor and survival skills including: shelter, knots, knives, fire, navigation, foraging, cordage, fishing, hunting, archery etc.
A full day of making a difference for others and being engaging.
Work autonomously and interact with parents and public at site locations.
Manage safety, curriculum and behavior during programming with groups of 6-9 years old or 9-14 years old.
A typical week is working from 8:30-4:30 in a municipal or county park setting, M-F.

COYLE OUTSIDE

http://www.coyleoutside.com/

Our goal is to provide youth with an experience of taking "mentored" risks and developing a meaningful connection to the natural world and each other. We want our students to experience discovery, connect with the natural world and develop initiative, accountability and creativity.

Coyle Outside is committed to having an instructor team that is diverse, passionate and interested in making a difference in the world.

We look for amazing people who love kids and the outdoors to make our camps and courses a transformational experience for the people we serve.

We are based in Corvallis, OR, operating year round and additionally we offer summer programs in Portland, OR and several states.

Compensation: $18.00 - $23.00 per hour

Adventure, Discovery, Inspiration First

We don't put safety first at Coyle Outside. That is said with trepidation as it seems our culture, especially around kids, increasingly values safety above all else sometimes. That leaves things like good judgement, relationship, trust, connection to come AFTER. What we see is that the world kids grow up in is increasingly sanitized of adversity and opportunities to experience failure/victory and to experience themselves as potential difference makers. We believe there is a distinction between discovery and 'learning' and that discovery changes a person forever. We believe that wisdom (as well as a beautiful, rich life) comes through failures, taking risks and from entering and passing through what is scary and uncomfortable.

Work With Us

To work here we want you to be up to something in life. We are looking for instructors who feel the need to make a difference as much as the need to have a paycheck. Our instructor team is expected to develop themselves as guides and mentors for our participants while also developing strong working relationships with co instructors that build a strong culture and keep standards high.

Many, if not most, of our programs have been the brainchild of or inspired by the initiative and talent of individual instructors whether that be our fishing and archery camps or our expansion to new states. Our instructors are self sufficient, autonomous and adventurous OR they are committed to developing themselves in these ways. The work is challenging and rewarding and instructors are at the same time highly independent and part of a larger culture.

We provide training in instruction approach, group and behavior management and technical outdoor skills. Our instructors work largely autonomously and with limited supervision and are confident and ready to be responsible. All instructors are on a first name basis with the founder/owner.

Year round we are looking for unique people who are ready to both stretch themselves and contribute to something larger

Make a difference for youth and impact their experience of themselves and what is possible for the future of their world
Commit to and explore the power of nature based experiential education
Challenge and develop your own personal and professional sense of adventure and self sufficiency/autonomy
Develop your own outdoor skills competency and/or use your developed passion/skills in an instructional role