Summer Position
Environmental Education Fellow
Environmental Educator Fellows work with Catamount Institute’s year-round Education Department staff to form the core teaching, leadership, and safety supervision team for all of our camps.
Summer of Adventure
Environmental Educator Fellows work with Catamount Institute’s year-round Education Department staff to form the core teaching, leadership, and safety supervision team for all of our camps. This position demands a high level of experience as Fellows teach from existing lesson plans, write some lesson plans of their own, and are at times the lead educator in charge of camp planning, programming, or campers.
Responsibilities
- Co-lead a comprehensive, age appropriate camp experience for children between the ages of 6 -15 at camps ranging from half-day to week long residential experiences
- Prepare for and teach activities and lessons as assigned, including lesson review, learning background information, and supply acquisition
- Generate original lesson plans to teach several times over the summer
- Know, follow, and enforce all safety guidelines associated with camp and all program areas. This includes but is not limited to being responsible for campers safety and knowing their whereabouts at all times
- Identify and respond to campers behavioral issues or emotional needs. Notify camp director of concerns
- Planning and attending staff meetings, planning sessions, and trainings
- Have flexibility in response to current and emergency situations and to shifts in camp responsibilities
- Mentor Summer Guide Interns and Volunteers
- Transport students as needed in CI supplied vehicles (15 passenger vans), must be eligible to be covered by CI driving insurance, clean driving record required.
- Write a portion of Catamount Institute’s end of summer wrap-up report
- Support staff and organization activities as needed
Qualifications
- College junior, senior, or bachelor’s degree preferred
- Experience working with youth in the outdoors in a volunteer, staff, or professional capacity
- Must be comfortable working in the outdoors all day in all conditions camping and hiking over rugged terrain
- Preference given to applicants with advanced outdoor skills like backpacking, rock-climbing, map and compass navigation or similar abilities
- Special skills (music, singing, storytelling, group dynamics, and games) helpful
- Willing to ask questions and learn new things
- Energetic, dedicated, & able to become involved in all aspects of the program
- Science, Naturalist, Education or Recreation background helpful but NOT required
- Current first aid and CPR certifications are required, preference given to candidates with higher certifications: WFA, WFR, Wilderness EMT, etc…
- Insurable to drive our 15 passenger van, clean driving record required
- Self-starter, ability to take initiative and without direct supervision, sometimes during stressful situations
Please note:
You must have housing in the Colorado Springs area. We only provide overnight accommodations during our staff training overnight (1 night).
You must be available to work Tuesday, May 30th – Tuesday, August 15th with weekends and 4th of July week off (July 3rd -7th).
What you should expect
- Settings ranging from urban park to deep wilderness
- Work & play with campers ages 5 - 16
- Work-weeks at camp run Monday-Friday
- Mandatory staff training begins after Memorial Day and runs Tuesday-Friday.
- Camps typically end by the second week of August each summer as schools start up again
Benefits
- Build your resume through leadership, teaching, and science skills.
- Summer Pay - $6350
- Catamount Institute Staff Gear
- Meals, Lodging, Rafting, and more during overnight camps (housing is not provided for the full summer)
Apply today
Click the button below to apply online. If you are a Colorado College Student please click here to apply through the Public Interest Fellowship program. All other applicants click below to apply online.
