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 "The Restoration and Preservation of 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 leading to Salary Opportunity
-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
Adventure, Discovery, Inspiration First
We don't put safety first at Coyle Outside. That is said with trepidation as it seems our culture, especially around kids, increasingly values safety above all else sometimes. That leaves things like good judgement, relationship, trust, connection to come AFTER. What we see is that the world kids grow up in is increasingly sanitized of adversity and opportunities to experience failure/victory and to experience themselves as potential difference makers. We believe there is a distinction between discovery and 'learning' and that discovery changes a person forever. We believe that wisdom (as well as a beautiful, rich life) comes through failures, taking risks and from entering and passing through what is scary and uncomfortable.
Work With Us
To work here we want you to be up to something in life. We are looking for instructors who feel the need to make a difference as much as the need to have a paycheck. Our instructor team is expected to develop themselves as guides and mentors for our participants while also developing strong working relationships with co instructors that build a strong culture and keep standards high.
Many, if not most, of our programs have been the brainchild of or inspired by the initiative and talent of individual instructors whether that be our fishing and archery camps or our expansion to new states. Our instructors are self sufficient, autonomous and adventurous OR they are committed to developing themselves in these ways. The work is challenging and rewarding and instructors are at the same time highly independent and part of a larger culture.
We provide training in instruction approach, group and behavior management and technical outdoor skills. Our instructors work largely autonomously and with limited supervision and are confident and ready to be responsible. All instructors are on a first name basis with the founder/owner.
Year round we are looking for unique people who are ready to both stretch themselves and contribute to something larger
- Make a difference for youth and impact their experience of themselves and what is possible for the future of their world
- Commit to and explore the power of nature based experiential education
- Challenge and develop your own personal and professional sense of adventure and self sufficiency/autonomy
- Develop your own outdoor skills competency and/or use your developed passion/skills in an instructional role