Outdoor Educator Manager- Outschool

Coyle Outside•Corvallis, OR

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Outschool Manager position will take a lead role in the development of the Coyle Outside Foundation, a 2024 formed non-profit branch of Coyle Outside. We serve the Benton County/Corvallis community. Our mission is to restore and preserve outdoor childhood. This position would lead instruction for weekly programs that are immersive and curriculum focused 75% of the time and would spend 25% of their time working on supporting administrative tasks such as training staff, developing curriculum, and communication with families and partner organizations. The lead educator would work toward curating a strong and credible curriculum for various offerings. This individual has a passion for outdoor education and creating a vision which serves our community's children and families. Optimally we would love to find a candidate with backpacking experience who can develop seasonal overnight programming.

Requirements

1-3+ years outdoor teaching experience
Self starting, innovative, and motivated to act in a leadership position
Comfortable working outdoors in ALL seasons
Highly aligned with the values of Coyle Outside and its mission to have youth engaging the natural world
Strong risk/group/behavior management skills and experience in the outdoors including Outdoor First Aid training
Can mentor/train and supervise assistant and team instructors
Loves working with kids and comfortable leading programs for a variety of age groups
Solutions and big picture focus/capable
Looking for a meaningful challenge as much as they are looking for a job
Up to something in life
Feel the need to make a difference as much as the need to have a paycheck
Develop themselves as guides and mentors for our participants
Develop strong working relationships with co instructors that build a strong culture and keep standards high
Self sufficient, autonomous and adventurous OR committed to developing themselves in these ways
Confident and ready to be responsible
Ready to both stretch themselves and contribute to something larger
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

Nice To Haves

Backpacking experience who can develop seasonal overnight programming

Responsibilities

Leading 100% outdoors, year round after school, homeschool, and seasonal camps with children ages 6+
Working with co staff during programs
Behavior/group/risk management
Developing/elevating curriculum for current program offerings, expanding classes, & developing new curriculum
Weekly email communications with parents
Weekly/biweekly phone check ins with administration
Instructor team support & feedback
Communicating with Parks & Rec partners & additional non-profit partners
Development of monthly skills trainings
Development of instructor trainings pertaining to content, delivery, & professionalism
Community event staffing tables, interacting with the public
Gear organization
Land development for program use