Vegan Nature Camp Director: Summer Camps - Oakland, United States - Inspire Behavioral Learning, LLC

Description

Nature Camp Director for Call of the Wild Camps:Opening for Summer 2024 (June 3-August 9) Open to applicants in the East Bay in or near Berkeley, CA and Oakland, CA.


Do you love working with children and camp counselors?
Do you love the outdoors, nature, and hiking? Do you have a passion for children's books, reading, and writing? Are you enthused about leading, inspiring, training, and supervising camp counselors? Do you care about creating an inclusive and fun environment for children and staff of all abilities? How about combining your passions into one fun seasonal job? Open a door to the wonders of nature as a living classroom in outdoor nature camps, where kids in grades K-5 come to hike, read, write, explore, learn, and play


You may be the ideal camp director for this job if:

• You are a communicative and collaborative team player bursting with creative ideas, fun, adaptable, friendly, outgoing, energetic, and eager to inspire and engage both children and camp counselors in learning by doing.
• You have
  experience supervising and managing staff in outdoor camps, nature camps, elementary school education, early childhood education, environmental education, literacy education, outdoor recreation, and related fields.
• You are vegan: _
  "Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animalfree alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals_
  ."
• The Vegan Society

WHO WE ARE:
We believe that to inspire learning is to inspire action We believe in experiential education and lifelong learning.

Inspire Behavioral Learning's mission is to empower people to live happier, more independent and fulfilling lives by achieving their health and educational goals.

Outdoor educators in Call of the Wild Camps provide a fun, safe alternative to screen addiction; inspire nature connection and curiosity; and foster healthy, positive relationships with flora and fauna in our natural environments.

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE:

- **We believe in the wisdom of "be kind to every kind" and the benefits of veganism on animals and the environment.

• We value the integrity of the whole person and are dedicated to a wellrounded blend of head, heart, and body being constant learners, kind and caring, and focused on learning by doing.
• We use emergent curriculum and principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), the science of learning that focuses on observable interaction between the learner and environment.
• We are a small company focused on quality over quantity.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Manage, administer, and oversee daily operations of youth programs onsite for Call of the Wild Camps, in cooperation with the camp supervisor and coordinator
• Reliably and punctually attend and actively participate in camp training online and onsite, rain or shine _(training is the week before the first session of the season you are hired to work)_
• Reliably and punctually attend outdoor nature camps onsite, rain or shine, M-F 8:25 AM4:35 PM for the season you are hired to work
• Supervise and train camp counselors onsite, providing modeling, prompt fading, positive feedback, and constructive feedback
• Greet parents at dropoff and pickup times, checking children in and out
• Communicate with parents/guardians in a friendly and professional manner
• Communicate with parents/guardians a brief summary of their child's day at pickup time
• Safely lead hikes in parks for K5th graders in small groups, up to approximately 6 miles per day
• Maintain a 4:1 or 5:1 student: staff ratio
• Lead theme weeks Enchanted Forest Art, Enchanted Forest Reading, Enchanted Forest Writing, and Enchanted Vegan Nature
• Create and facilitate fun and positive nature education curriculum on vegan topics such as animal rights, speciesism, health, food, clothing, and the environment
• Lead outdoor language arts activities for children with nature and wilderness themes, including but not limited to circle time with story time and singing, literary showandtell, skits, nature journaling, mapmaking, creative writing, personal journaling, and authoring and illustrating books
• Engage children in outdoor activities that blend recreation and education, such as naturethemed hide and seek and chase games, crafting and playing forest "I Spy" games and scavenger hunts
• Facilitate naturethemed arts and crafts
• Engage children and staff with a fun teaching style and high energy, creativity, adaptability, spontaneity, dynamism, and positivity
• Supervise and facilitate children's rest breaks, snack and lunch breaks, and physical play breaks
• Delegate camp counselor duties
• Provide naturalisti