Join us! Help change the movement of outdoor education through Farming, Wildcrafting, and Regenerative Gardening. Share your passion for growing food, raising animals, and sustainability with youth. This position is full-time, year-round, and goes beyond a job—you help create a village. 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 a Farming, Wildcrafting, and Regenerative Gardening curriculum in serving upwards to 3900 kids a year. Co-create and implement content for in-depth forest school, mentoring, 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 Farm and Wildcraft programs.

Please apply on our company website: https://trackersearth.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=79

The Game of Tracking

Trackers Earth’s core curriculum is like a live-action role-playing game where kids play in and learn skills that are divided into our Four Guilds: Rangers, Wilders, Mariners, Artisans.

Trackers Earth’s core curriculum is like a live-action role-playing game where kids play in and learn skills that are divided into our Four Guilds: Rangers, Wilders, Mariners, Artisans.

• Rangers Guild Rangers train to be Ready. They master the arts of forest craft, honing skills of wilderness survival, tracking, and awareness.
• Wilders Guilds Wilders live as a Caretaker. They tend to plants, trees, and odd mushrooms, finding ways to regenerate the land.
• Mariners Guild Mariners grow to be Gritty. They sail by salty trade and wisdom, fishing, and foraging, traveling by creek, river, and sea.
• Artisans Guild Artisans connect the Team. They act as ringmasters of humor, heart, and wisdom, walking bare-of-foot and sleeping under the twilight sky.

As the specialist supervisor and teacher for Farming, Wildcrafting, and Regenerative Gardening, your role is a leader in our Wilder Guild. You plan our learning gardens and work with Trackers founders and leadership to align Wilders activities and content with core Trackers values and programs to facilitate the Game of Tracking.

Grow with Trackers

Trackers Earth serves over 20,000 students each year and is growing. The programs you help build teach leading edge outdoor skills that cultivate competence, capability, and curiosity in the youth we serve. Your efforts help kids better contribute to their family, nature, and many generations beyond us.

As a Guild Supervisor you are key to engaging our Trackers For Life journey—a program that trains teens, parents, and seniors as outdoor educators and Trackers staff. In this critical role, you help our community build our Village both as students and guides. Join a seasoned, dedicated, and expert team to move outdoor education toward its greater potential. Come guide kids to reclaim childhood and their connection to the wild!

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• With Trackers founders and leadership, collaborate on and implement programs rooted in the following skills and beyond:

  • Homesteading

    • Growing Plants: Soil, Roots & Vegetables, Fruits

    • Raising Birds: Eggs, Farm Flocks, Slaughter & Butchering

    • Shepherding Mammals: Farm Herds, Wild Herds, Slaughter & Butchering

  • Wild Crafting

    • Plant Ecology: Families, Identification, Communities

    • Wild Plants: Poisonous, Edible, Medicinal

    • Mushrooms: Poisonous, Edible, Mushroom Kingdom

  • Land Restoration & Regeneration

    • Harvest for Wildlife Diversity: Ethics, Creating Habitat, Planning

    • Fire for Climate: Benefits, Risk Management, Biochar: Carbon Capture

    • Wilders Garden: Growing, Humans Living with More Than Human World, Many Generations of More Than Human

• 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 camps leading a team of educators in your specialty.

• School Year Design our learning garden layouts and become a key consultant in our Forest Management to plan for reducing wildfire risk and increasing wildlife diversity. Plan for Summer, Spring and Winter programs. Mentor and teach in our Forest School and After School programs.

• Inspire, motivate, and energize youth and families by offering in-depth quality in programming .

• Recruit, assemble, train, manage, and evaluate Interns, Guides, and Coordinators.

• Train, supervise, and evaluate Interns, Leads, and Coordinators for optimal safety, quality, operations, culture, and developing employee improvement plans as necessary.

• Encourage safe independence in Youth and Guides.

• Reinforce our culture, focusing on can-do attitude and positive, and solutions based collaboration.

• Maintain professional and positive standards within the organization.

• Thoughtfully follow and enforce all Trackers policies and procedures for safety and quality.

• Be responsible for administering risk management and governance frameworks.

• Direct staff in proper usage, maintenance and storage of program gear to create a highly organized culture of tidiness.

• Anticipate and exceed the expectations of Trackers Earth campers and families.

• Collaborate with team members to respond to camper/guardian feedback in a timely manner.

• Communicate and document in all matters of safety, quality, operations, staffing, and culture on a daily basis.

• Willingness to develop your own skills that apply to Trackers culture and goals.

Qualifications:

• Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required)

• Proven experience in Farming, Wildcrafting, and Regenerative Gardening as it applies to deeper nature connection.

• 1+ year (or 2 seasons) experience leading and managing adult teams, preferably in outdoor or educational settings

  • Implementing systems and processes with a team of adult colleagues of more than 2, with a commitment to organizational governance (incl. safety, risk management, and quality)

  • Implementing organizational frameworks, training, objectives, and values

  • Identifying, synthesizing, and effectively communicating objective (organizational) feedback to colleagues with measurable, positive outcomes

  • A high level of communication effectiveness with customers, managing solution oriented best practice

  • Working with large groups of youth while dividing them into smaller, self-directed teams

• 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

• Proven ability to exercise discretion and judgment that reflects critical thinking while managing campers and staff in remote locations with limited support

• Can adapt to changing logistics and collaborate on solutions in a calm, positive way

• Act as a role model and support the culture of the Trackers Code and Trackers Elements (outdoor skills) with campers and staff

• Possess grit, becoming more calm, creative, and proactive when challenged

• 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 

• Trackers will complete pre-employment criminal background & references checks 

• Supervisors need 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

Be able to report to any Oregon worksite within 30 miles of our SE Portland Headquarters or our Sandy school.

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.