Youth Program Development & Outdoor Learning Specialist

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; Arizona; On-site; USD 11,000 - 18,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education award

Housing

Stipend

Training

Job summary

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps is seeking a Youth Program Development & Outdoor Learning Specialist to help expand the James 4-H Camp’s capacity to provide safe, engaging, and high‑quality educational experiences for Arizona youth.

This role collaborates with camp staff, university personnel, community partners, volunteers, and qualified program specialists to strengthen youth programming, evaluation, volunteer engagement, resource management, and facility development.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver memorable youth programs.
• Build a youth-program inventory system.
• Lead program-evaluation implementation.
• Improve camp learning spaces.
• Strengthen volunteer engagement.
• Connect the camp with its communities.
• Help bring a youth challenge course to life.
• Help shape future youth shooting sports opportunities.
• Support direct program service including orientation, instruction, and support to youth, staff, and volunteers.
• Ensure the general safety of campers, staff, and volunteers at waterfront, challenge course, hiking, archery range and activity areas.
• Serve on the Program Specialist Team (PST) to develop camp programming; plan camp and volunteer events; assist experiential learning activities for youth and adults.
• Assist the camp counselors as a facilitator in the bunk houses.

Skills

Youth program development

Community outreach

Volunteer engagement

Leadership

Team work

Safety awareness

Communication

Writing/Editing

Evaluation

Facility development

Event planning

Job description

The AmeriCorps Youth Program Development & Outdoor Learning Specialists will help expand the James 4-H Camp’s capacity to provide safe, engaging, and high-quality educational experiences for Arizona youth. Members will collaborate with camp staff, University personnel, community partners, volunteers, and qualified program specialists to strengthen youth programming, evaluation, volunteer engagement, resource management, community outreach, and educational facility development.The James 4-H Camp & Outdoor Learning Center is located northeast of Prescott and southwest of Sedona on 55 acres near Mingus Mountain in the Black Hills range. Situated at approximately 6,500 feet and surrounded by the Prescott National Forest, the camp features a lake, streams, trails, recreation areas, and indoor and outdoor learning spaces.The camp is approximately 45 minutes from nearby communities and is reached by paved roads followed by five miles of maintained, unpaved Forest Service road. Members should be comfortable living and serving in a remote mountain setting with changing weather, uneven terrain, and limited nearby services.

Member Duties :

• Create and deliver memorable youth programs.
• Build a youth-program inventory system.
• Lead program-evaluation implementation.
• Improve camp learning spaces.
• Strengthen volunteer engagement.
• Connect the camp with its communities.
• Help bring a youth challenge course to life.
• Help shape future youth shooting sports opportunities.
• support and deliver direct program service that includes activity orientation, direct instruction, and support to youth, staff, and volunteers.
• Ensure the general safety of campers, staff, and volunteers at the waterfront, on the challenge course, hiking, archery range and activity areas.
• Serves as a member of the Program Specialist Team (PST) to develop camp programing; plan camp and volunteer events; assists experiential learning activities for youth and adults.
• Assist the camp counselors as a facilitator in the bunk houses.

Program Benefits :

• Education award upon successful completion of service
• Housing
• Stipend
• Training.

Terms : Car recommended.

Service Areas :

• Community Outreach
• Children/Youth
• Education
• Environment.

Skills :

• Communications
• Community Organization
• Computers/Technology
• Fine Arts/Crafts
• First Aid
• Leadership
• Writing/Editing
• Youth Development
• General Skills
• Environment
• Team Work
• Lift 30-lbs & hike 5 miles.