Outdoor Education Fellow - Field Learning & Visitor Services

Student Conservation Association; Moab (UT); On-site; USD 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided by NPS

AmeriCorps Education Award

Job summary

Student Conservation Association in Monticello, UT seeks a motivated education and visitor services assistant to support the Southeast Utah Group NPS education program and Needles district interpretive duties.

You will engage students through hands-on field trips, deliver informal trail interpretations, and support Junior Ranger activities while working at the visitor center and outdoors.

Qualifications

• A state-issued Drivers License and be at least eighteen years of age.
• A strong interest in teaching elementary-aged children and desire to explore careers with the National Park Service.
• A personal vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Teach standards-based lessons from the curriculum, manage students for safety in the outdoors, assist with pre- and post-field trip classroom visits (60%).
• Prepare and plan for instruction, support education program logistics, safely drive a government vehicle, and complete projects to maintain program quality (20%).
• Participate in activities to develop education skills including program debriefs, training sessions for best practices in environmental education, informal peer observation, video self-evaluations, and formal coaching sessions (10%).
• Contribute feedback to program to ensure its continued success (5%).
• Occasionally present and develop extracurricular programming for area youth which may include junior ranger programs, after school clubs, or community events (5%).

Skills

Drivers license

Teaching interest

Personal vehicle

Job description

Student Conservation Association in Monticello, UT seeks a motivated education and visitor services assistant to support the Southeast Utah Group NPS education program and Needles district interpretive duties.

You will engage students through hands-on field trips, deliver informal trail interpretations, and support Junior Ranger activities while working at the visitor center and outdoors.