Outdoor Education Program Instructor

Outdoor Education Program Instructor
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Overview: The OE Program Instructor’s primary role is to lead hikes, teach lessons based on the state science standards, and help students grow through a variety of program elements.
Essential Functions
Instruct groups of students in various activities on 3, 4, or 5 day programs
Develop professional relationships with coworkers and guests (students, chaperones, teachers, and administrators)
Perform duties and/or participate in activities including:
Teach the outdoor education curriculum, which includes standing, walking, and hiking, sometimes strenuous, over uneven terrain and in all weather conditions
Lead various program elements including rock wall, archery, songs, games, chapels, worship, skits, dances, and team building exercises
Enforce dining hall standards during meals
Supervise a group of students overnight
Travel to multiple sites for the outdoor education programs
Additional Functions
Attend OE team meetings
Provide supportive leadership when necessary
Assist in cleaning and inventory management
Provide first aid and basic health care when necessary
Other duties as assigned by supervisor
Major Competency Areas
Ability to work effectively within a team or alone
Strong communication and teaching
skills
Ability to model desired behaviors, including a positive attitude, on a consistent basis
Reliability, punctuality, and good time management
Qualifications
Minimum education of a bachelor’s degree or minimum of two years equivalent experience
Adaptability and Godly Christian character
Current Red Cross or American Heart Association CPR & First Aid certification which includes an in-person training element
Full agreement with TM Camping’s statement of faith, mission, vision, and values
Compliance with the employee handbook
Valid driver’s license
Physical Demands
Abilities sufficient to carry out the essential functions of the job, including the physical fitness and endurance needed to lead hikes and activities. Applicants and/or employees may be asked to take a Fitness-For-Duty test in regard to the physical nature of the job.
Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs
Opening Letter
Thank you for your interest in American Outdoor Christian Education!
With a home base at Thousand Pines Christian Camp in Crestline, CA, at AOCE we travel across California and beyond to run programs at multiple partner camps. While we serve both public schools and private christian schools, we seek to serve, love, and live in ways that glorify God and represent our salvation in Jesus Christ.
Our outdoor education team serves in many ways - teaching lessons, running games, leading chapels, being overnight cabin leaders, and more - and in all of these we can point others toward the message of God's love. This applies not only to our guests but to each other: we desire to help facilitate your own spiritual growth in a community of believers, sharing in joys and difficulties together.
We will be praying for you as we seek God's direction together.
Mission, Vision, Values
American Outdoor Christian Education is a member company of Trademark Camping (TM Camping). We desire to have a distinctly Christian atmosphere and influence. Though campers and attendees come from many Christian and non-Christian backgrounds, all are included in activities. Ministry team members participate in leading guests and other staff in chapel services, prayer, devotions, etc.
In applying for a ministry role with us, you are subscribing to a high moral, ethical, and spiritual life style and give assurance that you will try to lead campers and staff, in both word and deed, to practical, real faith for themselves. In addition, no matter where one works, all staff are expected to live exemplary Christian lives before campers and staff alike.
We seek to be a group of people who care for our guests and work as a team. It is our desire that every employee and their entire family feel part of the ministry team here at TM Camping. It is important that all employees share our mission, vision, and values. We hope that all our employees adopt and advance them as their own.
Our Mission: American Outdoor Christian Education exists to help students learn, grow, and experience the outdoors.
Our Vision: Every student experiences personal growth through hands-on learning, new challenges, and positive interactions.
Our values:
Integrity: “Integrity is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching.”
Safety; We will seek to protect the safety of our guests and staff.
Attitude: “Character is realized not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
Saying “YES!”: We will seek to say “yes” to our guests whenever possible.
Excellence: “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.”
Teamwork: “Together we can accomplish the extraordinary.”
Initiative/Follow Through: “What can I do to make it better?”
Out-of-the-box Thinking: “Can it be done better, more creatively, less expensively?”
Fun: “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter”- E.E. Cummings
Statement of Faith
The Statement of Faith outlines the beliefs of Trademark Camping (TM Camping) and its companies. All beliefs are listed and founded in God's Word, the Bible.
PREAMBLE
TM Camping, in accordance with the historic Baptist tradition, hold to Believers Baptism by Immersion, Liberty of Conscience, the Separation of Church and state, and the Priesthood of the Believer. We also affirm the following distinctive which need emphasis at the present time:
I. THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
The Bible is the inspired, authoritative and infallible W

Employment type
Seasonal/Exempt

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