Passionate about inspiring kids and families to be outdoors? Love a great story and adventure? Do you have a penchant for entertaining? Help us make an irreplaceable impact in how people connect to nature. Whether you are an emerging or seasoned educator and guide, a subject matter enthusiast, or a behind-the-scenes operator, Trackers Earth is the place for you! Through your training and time working with our camps, you support and develop the skills needed to teach what we call Tracking.

Learn More or Apply: https://trackerspdx.com/camp-jobs.php

About Trackers Earth

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 diverse, equitable and inclusive environments for participants and staff. We endeavor to grow with families, communities and individuals for the greater advancement and increased accessibility of these experiences. We define ourselves by multi-generational values and an ever deeper kinship to nature and the more than human world.

Available Positions

We need skilled teachers who want to make education better through working in our camps. We’re looking for:

• Team & Site Coordinators: Professionals with outdoor education and management experience
• Outdoor Day Camp Guides: Educators passionate about building competency in kids through outdoor education
• Overnight Guides: Guides experienced in basecamp, expedition overnight & adventure travel programs

Looking for Educators & Mentors

We need mentors and guides who can lead and create thoughtful and entertaining adventures in the outdoors skills, story, and more. You can come with skills or possess a great willingness to learn. These skills could include but not be limited to the following…

• Early Childhood Outdoor Education
• Wilderness Survival & Bushcraft
• Farm Craft & Homesteading
• Fishing & Canoeing
• Role-playing Stories with Outdoor Skills
• Rock Climbing, Kayaking, SUPs and Outdoor Sports
• Photography, Ceramics, Woodworking or Blacksmithing
• Paintball and action sports

This position is primarily for summer day and overnight camps but we do offer several 9-month and full-year positions based on seasonal performance.

Learn More or Apply: https://trackerspdx.com/camp-jobs.php

Location

Day Camps Be able to show up for work at day camps at any given West or East Portland site in the summer.
Overnight Camps Work at our residential overnight locations. Many are in but not limited to Sandy, Oregon.

Trackers Mission

From wilderness survival to fishing, from story camps to blacksmithing, the timeless Arts of Tracking define how we share these skills. Tracking develops incredible feats of observational awareness. Tracking maps lost puzzles and unseen connections. Tracking changes how we see the wilderness and our relationship with it. Through tracking, kids rediscover and remember their natural connection to family, what is wild, and multiple generations beyond their lifetime.

Compensation – Range depends on qualified certifications.
Leads: $18 – $20 per hour
Assistants: $16 – $18 per hour
Coordinators: $785 – $865 per week