Outdoor Educator Manager- Outschool

Benefits:

• Training & development
• Bonus based on performance
• Employee discounts

The Outschool Manager position that 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. The ideal candidate

• Has 1-3+ years outdoor teaching experience
• Is self starting, innovative, and motivated to act in a leadership position
• Is comfortable working outdoors in ALL seasons
• Is highly aligned with the values of Coyle Outside and its mission to have youth engaging the natural world
• Has 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
• 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.

Duties include:

-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

Tasks to provide additional, more full time hours as desired:
-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

Coyle Outside provides:
-$24-32/hr DOE and credentials
-Training in operations, policy and procedure, culture, and mission/vision
-Programs, rosters, gear/supplies to perform curricula
-Discounted/free access to programming for self/child(ren)
-Opportunities for growth & personal/professional/skills development & training
- Opportunity to transition to salary pay structure