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Spend a season or year outdoors conserving natural resources, gain field experience and make a difference with Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa!
Conservation Corps MN & IA provides youth and young adults practical and professional experience, career training, a stable income, and an opportunity to pay for educational expenses. All of this while being outside in the beautiful states of Minnesota and Iowa. Benefits include a living stipend ranging from $2,200-$2,600/month depending on position, health insurance, student loan forbearance during the service term, a post-service AmeriCorps education award, and the opportunity to explore career options. Applicants must be 18-35 years old and able to perform essential functions of the job including physically strenuous work. Individuals with multilingual backgrounds are encouraged to apply for all programs.
• Conservation Corps has kicked off their biggest round of hiring of the year—offering hundreds of full-time AmeriCorps Crew Member, Leader & Field Specialist positions beginning in January/February with work through November/December. •Why serve outdoors with Conservation Corps MN & IA? Check out with these Members had to say about their experience.
The Kroka Expeditions staff community is a diverse group of people from all ages and backgrounds who share a commitment to living simply and purposefully, while working together to share skills, knowledge, and values in a transformative way through high-quality outdoor education programs.
Join Kroka's international group of guides and educators this year as a full season Wilderness Leader. Leaders envision, design, and execute wilderness expeditions and farm-based programs for highly motivated students ages 9-19. Spring and fall season responsibilities include multi-element programs (including farming, adventure, sustainability, and wild-crafting skills), ocean canoe expeditions, moving-water canoe trips, backpacking adventures, farm-based programs, and more! During the summer months, Leaders facilitate 7-21 day expedition programs within Kroka’s seven adventure schools: rock climbing, caving, whitewater paddling, ocean expeditions, mountain biking, wilderness skills, and rites of passage. 2024 positions run from April 1st to October 31st. Compensation is based on experience and meets or exceeds that of other guides in the outdoor education industry, plus simple and beautiful Kroka Village housing, meals while you are on campus or traveling for Kroka, extensive training opportunities in adventure sports and wilderness skills, one-week paid vacation in between seasons, pro deal purchases, and being part of a forward thinking and energetic community. Learn more and apply online.
• The call to leave the ordinary world and venture into the unknown is an ancient one for people of all cultures. Kroka’s semester long programs are an answer to that call…
Come ready to learn, teach, and grow as an ANASAZI TrailWalker!
TrailWalkers (direct care field staff) walk the trail with the same food and gear as the YoungWalkers (students) and in so doing they share in the same experience as those they are guiding forward. Your primary responsibility is to live an exemplary life, teach healthy life skills, and maintain a safe and caring environment. ANASAZI places a great deal of emphasis on TrailWalkers developing healthy relationships with the YoungWalkers and utilizing those relationships, the wilderness, and primitive skills as a medium to teach and help the YoungWalker learn the skills and technologies of the ancient ones and walk forward. If invited to training, ANASAZI will provide all the gear a TrailWalker will need to work on the trail (except for personal clothing and boots). Compensation starts at $240/day; health benefits kick in after 60 days. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and willing to live by high personal standard of conduct on and off the trail.
TrailWalkers are expected to work 8 day shifts in the field (remote backcountry areas) with 6 days off in between. A MINIMUM of 6 consecutive months of employment is necessary.
Are you ready to work hard and make a difference? Develop leadership, career, and conservation skills? Connect with new friends? Camp and serve under the big skies of the wild Northern Rockies?
The Montana Conservation Corps focuses on the growth of participants, positively impacting our climate and environment, and transferable job skills. Crews camp while working on physically demanding and essential natural resource and conservation projects on some of the most breathtaking and remote landscapes in the Northern Rockies and Plains. Project work could include trail maintenance and construction, habitat restoration, invasive plant management, fuels reduction, work in the remote backcountry, and more! Crew Leaders go through a leadership development program crafted over two decades to enhance their confidence, resilience, and technical capabilities. Compensation ranges from a bi-weekly living allowance of $1,000–$1,450 and an AmeriCorps education award, with many great benefits (including free health insurance and potential housing options).
Seeking enthusiastic, outdoor-minded Instructors ready to live and work in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California!
Outdoor Education Instructors with Pali Institute will teach a variety of classes during the day, and then take on the role of cabin instructor with responsibilities during meals and at night. The curriculum covers a broad array of topics and activities such as alternative energy sources, building & launching rockets, squid dissection, outdoor cooking, skits, stargazing, team building sessions, low ropes course, five high ropes courses, quad zip lines and more! Compensation starts at $400-$445/week plus $50 bonus pay for nights in cabin (expect 2-4 nights/week), meals when programming is running, on-site staff lounge, fully furnished off-site shared housing with free WiFi, Netflix and laundry, travel stipend, 50% of health benefits after 60 days, pro-deal purchases, most weekends off, and easy access to all that Southern California has to offer. Must be at least 21 years old, passionate about science, outdoor education and/or leadership development, and able to have fun with kids, laugh at yourself and be silly.
Pali is actively recruiting Outdoor Ed Instructors for the spring 2025(January 5th–May 30th) season.
TrailWalkers are expected to work 8 day shifts in the field (remote backcountry areas) with 6 days off in between. 
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