Camp Specialist, Mountain Biking

**Introduction**:
Evergreen is currently seeking to add mountain biking enthusiasts to its team of Camp Specialists. This group of specialists are integral to the safe operations of Evergreen’s Bike Ventures program, ensuring a challenging and supportive environment for participants. Their talents and interests are honed to the realities of the trail and shop; each relied on for their focused skills and experience creating inclusive spaces for skills development and active transportation.

Our Camp Specialists, Mountain Biking contribute to the overall success of Evergreen Adventure Camp and support a culture of active play and healthy risk taking among Bike Ventures campers.

**About Us**:
Evergreen is a national non-profit transforming public spaces in our cities to build a healthier future for people and our planet.

With over 30 years of championing urban sustainability, we see the potential of our cities to solve some of the biggest issues facing our time and believe that our public spaces are the key to unlocking it. We see beyond the spaces that exist today and imagine them transformed into places where people and nature thrive. And we see a future where everyone can live a healthy life on a healthy planet.

**About the Role**:
Camp Specialists, Mountain Biking are responsible for delivering Bike Ventures Camp programs focused on connecting youth, ages 8-14, to the outdoors and exploring the Don Valley Ravine Trail Network by mountain bike. They lead mountain biking skills sessions, trail rides, mechanical workshops, and nature play ensuring that each camper grows in confidence on-road, on-trail and in-shop, in support of our OCA accredited Bike Ventures Camp that serves approximately 10 campers per week.

These Specialists play a key role in on-the-ground program delivery, utilizing their experience leading trail rides and maintaining bicycles to help our program come alive. They are responsible for the care and safety of a group of up to 10 campers per week and thrive in a challenging physical environment. These Specialists provide consistent, creative support to campers and the broader camp team and are mature team-players, and risk managers, who believe in the power and importance of active exploration.

Key Responsibilities:

- Creatively guide a group of 10 campers, ages 8-14, with a focus on leading trail rides and skills clinics, facilitating outdoor experiential play, and leading group games;
- Ensure proper safety and communication via two-way radio, especially when off-site;
- Communicate safety and health regulations to program participants and ensure they understand them;
- Facilitate daily program area safety checks, including trail conditions;
- Maintain a high degree of risk management and vigilance at all times and demonstrate confidence in dealing with offsite accidents and injuries;
- Assume duties as a Camp Counsellor as required;
- Help monitor and engage campers during lunch, snack and extended care programs;
- Provide mentorship, feedback and guidance to volunteers (Assistant Camp Counsellors);
- Monitor and maintain program spaces and materials, identifying and documenting any concerns with supervisor;
- Participate in end of day reflections and provide feedback and support to the rest of the camp team;
- Document any behavioral incidents, injuries or accidents, and report to Director/Manager in a timely way;
- Communicate effectively with parents/guardians;
- Participate in pre-camp training in June, and reviewing all safety and protocol documents;
- Act as a positive role model and leader;
- Contribute to positive workplace culture and great internal communication;
- Model Evergreen’s core values of sustainability, innovation and connection.

**About You**:
You excel in the following areas:

- **Customer-focus.** Anticipate, understand, and respond to the needs of others in a way that exceeds their expectations.
- **Communication.** Speak, listen and write in a clear, confident, respectful, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
- **Attention to detail.** Recognize that details matter. Work systematically to ensure important details do not slip through the cracks.
- **Flexibility/adaptability.** Manage ambiguity well. Adapt to changing priorities and conditions in an agile way, responding quickly and effectively. React to change with curiosity and excitement.
- **Proactivity/Enthusiasm/Persistence.** Act without being told what to do. Demonstrate passion and excitement over work. Display a can-do attitude.

You have the following qualifications:

- Mountain biking skills, including navigating multiuse trails, single track, obstacle navigation and trailside repairs
- 1-2 years’ experience working in a camp or childcare setting
- University or college degree/diploma (or equivalent professional/lived experience), in-progress or completed
- Basic bike repair and maintenance expertise
- Current Standard First Aid and C