Outdoor Living Skills Instructor
YMCA Camp Elphinstone
1760 YMCA Road
Gibsons, BC
V0N 1V6
Rate of Pay: $ 133.69-136.69/day
Position Status: Seasonal Contract, Full time
Term: June 22nd – August 31st, 2024
Reports To: Summer Camp Director
Application Deadline to be Considered for Group Interview: November 21, 2023
All applications submitted thereafter will be considered for individual interviews.
Nature & Scope
YMCA Camp Elphinstone is seeking individuals to fill the role of Outdoor Living Skills Instructor.
The Outdoor Living Skills Instructor engages campers in natural ecology with hands-on and exciting outdoor activities. The Outdoor Living Skills Instructor leads activities including the following: exciting and empowering explorations of the forest and intertidal zone at Camp Elphinstone, making tools with wild material, fire building, shelter building, and outdoor cooking.
The Outdoor Living Skills Instructor must possess hands-on skills at teaching innovative and nature-based crafts and knowledge of local natural history and ecology (including local plants, animal signs and geological or meteorological observations).
The Outdoor Living Skills Instructor is a member of the program staff team at camp. The program staff team will responsible for instructing camp activities and supporting other staff in delivering programs. They will also have other daily responsibilities such as helping with supervision of campers, evening cabin support, facilitating early morning and evening programs, program logistics, and care/maintenance of camp program equipment.
Responsibilities
- Facilitating experiential and camper-focused camp craft programs with children ages 5-17.
- Regularly inspect, maintain, and inventory all camp craft equipment. This includes all Archery Ranges. Report issues to the Program Director.
- Assist with ordering camp craft supplies prior to the summer and on an ongoing basis throughout the summer.
- Work with the other members of the program staff team to accomplish shared responsibilities.
Qualifications
- Standard First Aid & CPR-C
- Bronze Cross
- Knowledge or studies in ecology, biology
- Criminal Reference Check with a Vulnerable Sector Screening issued no later than six (6) months preceding start date
- 3 successful reference checks
Additional Qualifications (assets)
- NLS
- Wilderness First Aid
- Certification in interpretive guiding
APPLY HERE
https://www.gv.ymca.ca/overnight-camp-outdoor-ed-opportunities
