Assistant Guide (September 15, 2021 - September 2, 2022)

The Assistant Guides teach and help manage groups and campers. They implement and collaborate on curriculum developed with Mentor Coordinators, Field Operations Manager, and Regional Director.

Compensation:

• Base rate $16 per hour
• Training provided by Trackers—Other funded Training requests can be approved by supervisor.
  
• Sick leave/PTO - Accrued sick leave can also apply as flexible PTO. If unused, this is paid out at the end of every year on September 1 if unused.

Commitments

• 1-5 days a week, depending on program registrations and scheduled availability.
• Applications & Interviews opens June 10, 2021 and close July 28, 2021. Roles announce August 15, 2021.
• Duration is September 15, 2021 - September 2, 2022 (additional opportunities likely available beyond yearly end date).
• Calendar See draft Calendar - Portland 2021-2022 for prospective schedule.

Join Trackers Earth and

Remember what it’s like to be a kid! Guide immersive adventures with incredible skills.
Do more in one day than most camps do all summer! Create fantastic, live-action experiences.
Connect kids and families to nature! Share the timeless Arts of Tracking.

Are you passionate about inspiring kids and families to be outdoors? Love a great story and an epic adventure? Do you have a penchant for entertaining? Then join us and help change people’s lives. Whether you are an emerging or seasoned educator, an outdoor enthusiast, or a behind-the-scenes operator, Trackers Earth is the place for you! Through your training and work at our camps, you support and develop the skills needed to teach what we call Tracking.

Teach Tracking to Kids

From wilderness survival to fishing, from story camps to blacksmithing, the timeless Arts of Tracking defines how we share these skills. Tracking develops incredible 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 the family, nature, and multiple generations beyond our lifetime.

More About Trackers Earth

Since 2004, kids and families in all their forms have adventured with Trackers Earth. We share the Arts of Tracking through stewardship and outdoor skills. We are committed to creating diverse, equitable and inclusive environments for all 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.

Role of the Assistant Guide

Assistant Guides teach and help manage groups and campers. They implement and collaborate on curriculum developed with Mentor Coordinators, Field Operations Manager, and Regional Director. As a Assistant Guide you are responsible for teaching and guiding one group of campers throughout the course of the program. Assistant Guides provide a fun, engaging, and safe experience.

Assistant Guides report directly to a Mentor Coordinator, Field Operations Manager, and Lead Guides.

Responsibilities (What You’ll Do):

• Encourage competent and safe independence in youth that aligns with Trackers Teams format, the Game of Tracking, and the higher purpose of Trackers Earth.
• Contribute our Guide culture focused on can do, positive discourse and solutions based capacity for collaboration. Maintain professional standards within the group. Engage, manage, and mentor subordinate youth in Trackers Teams in a manner positive for Trackers and families.
• Help plan and prepare for all programming: fall, winter, spring, and seasonal. Guide and supervise Trackers Teams. Ensure activities for each age group are developmentally appropriate and engaging. Be a mentor and remember what it’s like to be a kid.
• Implement Trackers Core and Guild elements and Core Program Schedule. Energize Trackers Teams (youth) to finish one Trackers Journal a week
• Thoughtfully follow and enforce all Trackers policies and procedures. Be accountable for program safety, quality and standards.
• Lead by example and supervision in proper usage, maintenance and storage of program gear. Contribute to and co-create a culture of highly effective and deliberate organization and tidiness. Work with Mentor Coordinators and other officers to investigate when this deviates even to the slightest degree.
• Provide fun, engaging, and safe experiences for program participants and co-workers. Exceed the expectations of Trackers Earth customers and families
• Defer to Directors, supervisors, and Tony Deis in matters of safety, quality, operations, and culture. Report to the management and leadership team on a daily basis. Communicate health and safety information clearly and effectively to the Director, Office Camp staff and coordinators Coordinators.
• Read and watch all content material assigned, folding it into your understanding of how to be the best coach to Trackers Teams and subordinate Guides.
• Fulfill assigned duties in an emergency situation.
• Maintain and safeguard confidential information.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Enthusiastic interest in education or Outdoor Education as a profession. Ideally experience in skills relevant to the program assigned
• Preference for licensed driver with 5 years driving experience and a clean driving record
• Additional pay given for Class B Commercial Drivers License, with, Airbrake and Passenger Endorsements.
• Must be physically able to lead students in hikes of up to 10 miles in a day.
• Must have visual, perceptual, cognitive and judgment ability to: recognize and respond verbally to health and safety concerns, adventure opportunities, and to appropriately correct and de-escalate any improper behavior and appropriately positively reinforce safe maximum fun.
• Vision requirements include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (the ability to recognize the colors of traffic signals and devices showing standard red, green, and amber), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left or right while eyes are fixed on a given point), depth and perception (three dimensional vision, ability to judge distance and spatial relationships), and ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eyes to bring an object into sharp focus).

Working Conditions:

• Assistant Educators debrief and review with Mentor Coordinators in small groups
• Work environment includes open flames, toxic or caustic chemicals, and all season outdoor weather conditions.
• Noise level is very quiet (examples: forest trail, isolation booth for hearing test) to loud (examples: blacksmithing workshop, large earth-moving equipment).
• Physical Demands: 10% Sitting, 30% Standing, 20% Walking, 35% Lifting/Carrying/Pushing/Pulling Pounds 5 - 80 lbs