Farm & Garden Educator
Portland, OR

As a Bushcraft - Teaching Coordinator, you act as a mentor for teams of Trackers Guides and youth during incredible outdoor adventures, showing kids why we care for and preserve the places we explore. You teach about animals, farms, gardening & wild crafts. You collaborate with families and Trackers leadership to deliver the highest quality experience for campers.

Responsibilities:

• Guide a group of campers, teaching Trackers curriculum and theme-specific content.
• Supervise and manage Lead and Intern staff assigned to your Group.
• 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.
• Teach 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.

Qualifications:

• 1+ years (or 3 seasons) experience in outdoor education or 2+ years in general education.
• 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
  • Optional Pay Add-on - Class C CDL Trackers can assist you in getting this certification. Class C Commercial Drivers License (CDL) required for driving a 15 passanger vehicle (van or bus).
  • Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required).

Location

As a seasonal Coordinator and educator 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 within 30 miles of Portland.

2022 Salary

• Day Camp Coordinator: $745 per week
• Day Camp Coordinator & Driver (with Class C CDL): $785 per week
• Overnight Camp Coordinator & Driver (required Class C CDL): $1175 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.

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 your team teaches about animals, farms, gardening & wild crafts. 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 within 30 miles of Portland.

2022 Salary

Coordinator+ (with Class B CDL): $940 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.