Field Instructor

Purpose, passion, and a love of the outdoors are what Momentum is all about!

We are looking to fill a few positions in late 2023 and early 2024

Field Instructors play an integral role in the growth of our students through constant supportive supervision, mentoring, and facilitating safe engagement in the program's many aspects of outdoor adventure. Adventure opportunities include wilderness backpacking, rock climbing, canoeing, and mountain biking, where students are able to practice problem solving and self-reliance, along with all of the backcountry skills introduced on campus. While at basecamp you will guide our students as they attend classes regularly and build life skills by cooking in our commercial kitchen, cleaning their living space, gardening, practicing yoga and implementing daily mindfulness routines.

Trails Momentum is a campus-based adventure therapy program designed exclusively for struggling young adults ages 18-25 who uncover their trail to success by overcoming new challenges in a safe and supportive environment.

Primary Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Provide supervision to ensure safety and wellbeing of students.
• Monitor day-to-day health and safety concerns such as physical health, hygiene, and food intake.
• Assist in facilitating valuable experiences for growth and development for students.
• Observe and record student growth and development on a daily basis.
• Demonstrate and teach Base and Adventure skills, use of field equipment, gear, and supplies necessary for successful participation in the program.
• Create and follow through with personal goals of growth.
• Maintain calm and supportive demeanor when students are experiencing strong emotions.

A qualified candidate will meet the following requirements:

• Above the age of 21
• Ability to pass a drug screen and background check
• Willingness to sleep outside if an overnight camping trip is planned during your shift
• Ability to fulfill physical demands of adventure programming from hiking, mountain biking, backpacking, etc.
• Ability to identify, assess, and manage risk in a backcountry setting
• Demonstrates resilience, grit, and adaptive problem solving
• Ability to form healthy relationships with strong boundaries
• Willingness to give and receive growth oriented feedback to and from peers
• Ability to work 15/13 schedule (15 consecutive full days of work followed by 13 days off!)

You're a step ahead if you have experience with the following (but will train you if you don't!):

• Experience in outdoor recreation such as backpacking, hiking, camping, canoeing, rafting, mountain biking, and/or rock climbing
• Leadership experience, either in a professional or outdoor setting
• Experience working with young people, including setting and holding behavioral limits
• Practice with a regular self-care routine to maintain personal wellness
• Holds a current certification in CPR and First Aid, Wilderness First Aid, or Wilderness First Responder

A 1-year commitment is necessary to begin work with Trails Momentum. Staff work a shift rotation of 15 days immersed in the program, followed by 13 days off to relax, travel, and adventure. The Instructor role has often been called “the hardest job you’ll ever love”; it requires a firm commitment to compassion, a desire to effect positive change in the lives of young people, and the ability to be a resilient problem solver.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $2,400.00 - $2,850.00 per month

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $2,400.00 - $2,850.00 per month

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Work setting:

• In-person

Application Question(s):

• On a scale of 1-10, how excited are you to spend half of your shift camping outside with our students? (1 = dreading, 10 = over the moon!)
• On a scale of 1-10, how much are you going to love the 15 days on, followed by 13 days off schedule that staff work with? (1 = dreading, 10 = over the moon)

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Work Location: In person