Forest Educator Assistant

2 weeks ago


Squamish, Canada Squamish Nature Learners Full time

Squamish Nature Learners is hiring a passionate Forest School Educator's Assistant to join our team. The successful applicant will work 3 days a week at our Squamish location.

The applicant is responsible for:

- Working as a teacher assistant in an outdoor place-based classroom
- Help ensure the safety of all children, with activities such as hiking, climbing trees, river trips.
- Daily set up and take down
- Plan, prepare and co-create seasonal activities and projects utilizing natural materials, locally foraged or sourced.
- Attend meetings as needed.
- Communicate with parents effectively, in person, and occasionally by phone.
- Be physically capable of performing duties with enthusiasm regardless of the weather (rain, sleet, snow, heat), including the ability to walk distances and over uneven terrain, carry a backpack, and supplies.
- Support the benefits of risk-taking, movement, and physical development in the early years.
- Encourage familiarity with the local flora and fauna, including poisonous plants and their location, or be willing to be mentored, seek outside training, or self-study.
- Model and teach outdoor skills including risk management, knots, shelter building, self-care/appropriate clothing, leave-no-trace practices, and interacting with local wildlife.

Squamish Nature Learners is a non-profit nature program located on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation. We are in our 5th year or operating. Our program's main pillars include connecting to land, imaginative ecological education, decolonization, reconciliation and building connections with our local Elders. We are an anti
- racist, anti-homophobic/ transphobic program. We welcome teachers from all backgrounds, priority will be given to Indigenous and BIPOC applicants.

What we offer the applicant:

- A beautiful outdoor environment to teach in
- A supportive community
- Great work/life balance
- Mentorship
- Low child/educator ratio

Qualifications:

- Clean Criminal Record
- Current First Aid
- Experience teaching outside (preferred)
- Experience working with Indigenous Elders (preferred)

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 18 per week

**Salary**: $20.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2023-09-05



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