Youth & Family Programs Educator

The Youth & Family Programs Educator provides key support to the Youth & Family Programs Manager, leads camp programming, and supports the implementation of all programs for youth and families. They also manage their own portfolio of initiatives, including school partnerships and outreach programs. 

Primary Functions: 

Student Programs 

• Assist with scheduling, orienting, and hosting visiting school/youth groups.  
• Lead classroom lessons, field studies, and guided natural history tours for school/youth groups.  
• Help to develop new standards-aligned field trip programs and corresponding learning materials for all grade levels, including programming that has an emphasis on climate change/biodiversity loss.  
• Help to develop and lead programs for homeschoolers and their families.  
• Explore and develop school-based partnerships and outreach programs for local schools, including possible climate change related youth citizen science programs.  
• Support the development of a school garden program for local schools that complements our existing classroom gardening program.   
• Create and facilitate Discovery Cart programs that would be pertinent to visiting school groups and train volunteers to run them.  

Camp Programs 

• Create and lead nature and garden-based summer camps and school vacation camps for children ages 4-12.  
• Oversee summer camp staff and volunteers.   
• Work with our Marketing Department to promote camp programming.   
• Communicate with camp parents and evaluate camp programming.   

Drop-in and Informal Family Programs 

• Create and lead nature and garden-based educational programming for families, children and teens.  
• Support the development and implementation of self-guided educational offerings for families such as activity packets.  
• Develop and facilitate programming for families.   
• Create and facilitate Discovery Cart programs for guests of all ages.  
• Carry out daily informal educational activities in the Bibby and Harold Alfond Children’s Garden, such as storytime, puppet shows, and chicken feeding.  
• Assist with the daily upkeep and supervision of the Alfond Children’s Garden play areas and structures.  
• Assist with the daily care and maintenance of the Learning Garden and greenhouse.  
• Help to train and support the Alfond Children’s Garden volunteers.  
• Assist with the organization and implementation of family activities such as Cider Saturdays.  

To learn more and to apply, please visit: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - Youth & Family Programs Educator