Outdoor Educator Jobs
Day Camps, Denver, CO

As an Intern Guide, you can help greet kids and families, preparing them for their day of outdoor adventure or assist during after camp, engaging kids in afternoon activities. In this role you develop educational and group leadership while teaching.

Responsibilities

• Greet campers and families as they arrive and depart for the day
• Provide fun, engaging, and safe experiences for campers before and after their outdoor adventures
• Provide assistance with activities for campers to support Leads, Coordinators and Supervisors
• Develop skills that will help you become a Trackers Guide and beyond
• Participate in Trackers training and collaborate with a career coach to prepare for your future goals
• Report directly to a Trackers Coordinator
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required)
• Interest in the outdoors (maybe even a future career option)
• Friendly, positive attitude and proactive mindset
• Communication skills, ability to interact with kids and parents
• Food Handlers certified (or able to complete before starting)
• Model Trackers values

Location

Able to report to assigned workplace location in Denver.

Work Commitment

This is a temporary seasonal position.
Interns have the opportunity to work one or both shifts:

• 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
• 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Interns can commit to the first or second 5 weeks of summer, or both.

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.

As a Lead Guide, you help supervise and inspire teams of campers during incredible outdoor adventures, showing kids why we care for and preserve the places we explore. You may embark on a wilderness survival trek, fish, kayak, rock climb, or co-create a story adventure with secret agents, wizards, or elves.

Responsibilities

• Provide fun, engaging, and safe experiences for campers and co-workers
• Encourage independence in campers to align with Trackers Teams
• Help ensure activities for each age group are developmentally appropriate and engaging
• Implement Trackers schedules and programs
• Teach speciality programs based on skills and experience:
  • Bushcraft, Archery, & Wilderness Survival Skills
  • Farm, Wildcrafting & Sustainability
  • Fishing, Boating & Mariners Skills
  • Outdoor Adventure: Rock Climbing or Kayaking
  • Photography, Ceramics, Woodworking or Blacksmithing
• Be a mentor and remember what it’s like to be a kid
• Follow all risk management and Trackers policies
• Model and teach proper gear and tool usage, care, and organizational tidiness
• Be prepared to respond to and/or assist in an emergency situation
• Keep and safeguard confidential information
• Promote and model the Trackers Code and culture
• Report directly to a Trackers Coordinator
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

• Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required)
• Enthusiasm for Trackers and its programs. 16 years & up
• Can exercise discretion and independent judgment in remote locations
• Interest in developing and sharing outdoor skills with youth
• Can adapt to changing logistics and collaborate on solutions in a calm, positive way
• Capacity and enthusiasm to learn and teach wilderness skills and techniques
• Model professionalism while supporting youth, families, colleagues, and supervisors
• Can stand, bend, squat, climb, lift (up to 50 lbs), hike on and off trail (up to 5 miles) per day
• For Lead Guides ages 18+ Trackers will complete pre-employment criminal background & references checks
• Lead Guides need the following certifications (or able to complete before starting):
  • CPR/First Aid/Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine Auto-Injector
  • Food Handlers
  • (ages 18+) Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect (OR & WA)
  • (ages 18+) Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training - General (Oregon)
  • State fishing license if guiding a program that includes fishing

Location

Lead Educators meet at the field site and are not assigned to an officially fixed worksite. A free shuttle is usually available from Check-In/Check-Out location.

2022 Salary

Starting salary for new Leads - $17.25
Starting salary for returning Leads - $17.50

Additional Pay Bonuses for certifications:

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.

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.

As a Managing Coordinator, you manage a team of Day Camp Teaching Coorindators (4-6). You act as a mentor for teams of Trackers Guides and youth during incredible outdoor adventures. You plus the experience of Trackers Guides, Educators, youth, and families—always enriching what we offer. You drive and are captain of the bus journeying to far off places and sites where the team embarks on a wilderness survival trek, go fishing, kayaking, or co-create a story adventure with secret agents, wizards, or elves. You collaborate with families and Trackers leadership to deliver the highest quality experience for campers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide fun, engaging, and safe experiences for campers and co-workers Manage, administer, and run the daily operations of a Trackers Fellowship and/or Bus Team
• Communicate with guardians about needs, accomplishments, and expectations of campers
• Anticipate and exceed the needs and expectations of Trackers Earth campers and families
• Model, teach, and maintain proper gear and tool usage, care, and organizational tidiness
• Observe and document staff performance evaluations, executing development strategies
• Communicate and document safety and behavior incidents
• Lead one of our speciality programs based on skills and experience:
• Forest Craft, Archery & Wilderness Survival
• Farm Craft, Animal Care & Wild Plants
• Mariners Craft, Fishing & Boating
• Outdoor Adventure, Paddling & Rock Climbing
• Woodworking, Ceramics, Blacksmithing & more!

• Keep and safeguard confidential information
• Other responsibilities and duties as assigned
• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate up to five Coordinators with their Lead Guides and Interns
• Drive school bus with CDL Class B required—Trackers can help you get this certification
• Co-plan and organize curriculum with Team

Qualifications

• 1+ years (or 3 seasons) experience in outdoor education or 2+ years in general education
• 1+ season experience leading and managing adult teams, preferably in outdoor or educational settings.
• Experience with outdoor programs similar to Trackers and/or skills relevant to Trackers programs
• Can exercise independent judgment that reflects Trackers policies and protocols, while managing campers and staff in remote locations with limited support
• Can coordinate, adapt and plan for complex logistics, and be flexible in working with challenges
• Possess grit, becoming more calm, creative, and proactive when challenged
• Can stand, bend, squat, climb, lift (up to 50 lbs), hike on and off trail (up to 5 miles) per day
• Trackers Earth completes pre-employment criminal background & references checks
• Coordinators need the following certifications (or able to complete before starting):
  • CPR/First Aid/Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine Auto-Injector
  • Food Handlers
  • (ages 18+) Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect (OR & WA)
  • State fishing license if guiding a program that includes fishing
  • Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required)
  • Class B Commercial Drivers License (CDL) required for driving a Bus. Trackers can assist you in getting this certification.

Location

As a seasonal educator and Coordinator+ you are not assigned to an officially fixed worksite. You are responsible for your own transporation and be able report to work at any of our locations.

2022 Salary

Coordinator+ (with Class B CDL): $990 per week

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.

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.

Join us! Help change the movement of outdoor education through one of the following speciality skillsets:

• Bushcraft & Wilderness Survival
• Farm, Gardening & Wild craft
• Fishing & Mariners Crafts
• Boating, Climbing & Outdoor Sports

Your role? A Trackers Supervisor is manager and mentor to hundreds of staff and thousands of students. As a subject matter expert, contribute to and help develop and manage speciality content and teams serving upwards to 2500 kids a year. Co-create and teach content for in-depth forest school, homeschool, apprenticeship, and after school programs, cultivating strong relationships with Trackers families as we build our community. Working with the region’s General Manager and Site Supervisors, collaborate in the growth and quality of all specialty programs.

Responsibilities

• Teach, develop, and implement programs based on one or more of the following subjects: Forest Craft, Archery & Wilderness Survival, Farm Craft, Animal Care & Wild Plants, Mariners Craft, Fishing & Boating, Outdoor Adventure, Paddling & Rock Climbing, Woodworking, Ceramics, Blacksmithing & more!
• Be a mentor, and remember what it’s like to be a kid.
• Break Camp: Summer, Spring, Winter Oversee and manage a Trackers Earth summer and break camp team serving upwards to 2500 campers a year.
• School Year: Plan for Summer, Spring and Winter programs. Mentor and teach in our Homeschool, Weekend Apprenticeship, or After School programs.
• Recruit, assemble, train, manage, and evaluate Interns, Guides, and Coordinators.
• Reinforce a culture of can-do attitude and positive, and solutions based collaboration.
• Follow and enact all of Trackers policies and procedures for safety and quality.
• Direct staff in proper usage, maintenance and storage of program gear.
• Document matters of safety, quality, operations, staffing, and culture on a daily basis.

Qualifications

• Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required).
• 2+ years (or 4 seasons) experience leading and managing adult teams, preferably in outdoor or educational settings.
• 2+ years (or 4 seasons) experience in outdoor skills or 3+ in general education.
• Experience with summer camps similar to Trackers or skills relevant to Trackers programming.
• Ability to exercise independent discretion and judgment that reflects critical thinking while managing campers and staff in remote locations with limited support.
• Model professionalism while supporting campers, families, and colleagues.
• Can stand, bend, squat, climb, lift (up to 50 lbs), hike on and off trail (up to 5 miles) per day.
• Passing pre-employment criminal background & references checks.
• Willingness to develop your own skills that apply to Trackers culture and goals.
• Possess the following certifications (or able to complete before starting): CPR/First Aid/Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine Auto-Injector, Food Handlers , Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect (OR & WA), State fishing license.
• Class B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) required. Trackers will assist you in getting this certification.

Location

As an outdoor educator and supervisor you are not assigned to an officially fixed worksite. You are responsible for your own transporation and be able report to work at any of our locations.

Compensation

$45,760 - $51,140 per year

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Accrued sick leave (up to 95 hours per year) can also be used as flexible PTO
• Professional and career development opportunities
• Free winter, spring & summer camp options for immediate family members (Grade K-5)
• Industry pro deals for gear discounts

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.