Summer Outdoor Instructor

Join our Slide Ranch community for the summer and engage children in outdoor education in a coastal ranch setting. Position requires a collaborative and positive spirit to work with a team of teaching peers, organization staff, and residents. The successful candidate will possess a great attitude and strong motivation to experience all facets of the job as important to one’s learning and development. A successful candidate will also possess a growth mindset, with a desire to set goals, reflect, and provide feedback to the rest of the team. Applicants must be comfortable living in rustic accommodations.

• Prior experience working for camps or working with children.
• Flexibility, enthusiasm, creativity, curiosity, and positive attitude.
• Eagerness to engage campers of various ages with an interactive, student-centered teaching approach.
• Desire to learn about and practice farming and land stewardship.
• Awareness of multicultural environmental education and issues related to the urban environment and current local, regional and global events.
• Dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion in teaching and learning.
• High level of personal responsibility in work and professionalism when dealing with the public and colleagues, including plants and animals.
• Ability to take initiative and adopt a solution-oriented approach, while understanding the value of teamwork.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to accept supervision and guidance.
• Interest in supporting nonprofit organizations, including participating in fundraising activities, volunteer programs and donor events.

Duties are performed in a hilly and rural outdoor setting and can be physically demanding, including outdoor teaching in all weather, manual labor such as shoveling, and lifting up to 40 lbs.

All incoming instructors are expected to have current CPR/1st Aid certification by June 3, 2024.

Apply at https://www.slideranch.org/careers.