Do you want to be part of the most exciting and fulfilling work you’ve ever imagined? Join the Meramec Adventure Ranch team and change lives!Using the transformative power of the wilderness and adventure, Meramec Adventure Ranch is dedicated to serving individuals and families whom much of the world has given up on, including youth struggling with traumatic pasts, youth in residential treatment, youth on the Autism Spectrum, siblings separated in the foster care system, and Wounded Warriors. Since 2006, the Ranch has grown to become one of the most extensive adventure bases in the Midwest and has served over 100,000 youth and families. Adventure experiences are not an escape from the daily grind. They are reality, where in an “off-balance” environment, the true self always eventually surfaces and must be faced, concrete victories are earned, natural consequences are plentiful, roles and gifts are discovered, and positive relationships are built. Evidence bears out that these experiences become defining moments for young men and young women growing to become the people they were created to be. |
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Summer Adventure Guides
Summer Equestrian Instructors Camp Nurses/Nursing Students
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Missouri is usually not the first state to pop into your mind when most people think of prime adventure and wilderness locations. While the Missouri Ozarks has incredible scenery and adventures, at Meramec Adventure Ranch it’s the participants who are the biggest draw to the program. Here, you have a chance to stand alongside youth whom most of the world and even almost every other "wilderness therapy" program has given up on—youth in state custody; those who need what adventure has to give most of all! Here, you get to use the green hills, steep ravines, high bluffs, pristine streams, and extensive karst topography of the Ozark Mountain region to allow young men and women begin to experience themselves differently, to redeem traumatization from the past, and to build trauma resilience for the future!
Add to that a 1,200-acre Ranch ideally situated in the middle of the Mark Twain National Forest with facilities including multiple high challenge courses and zip lines, team development courses, climbing walls, rappel bluffs, mud obstacle courses, high-adventure swimming and boating areas, horse stables, primitive skills sites, mountain biking and BMX trails, tree climbing, 3 miles of riverfront, and countless other opportunities to guide high-risk youth to grow, heal, and hope!
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Compensation is competitive and based on position and experience, plus all staff receive shared housing and meals when programs are running. Perks of the Job
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Challenges of the Job
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If you are at least 20, have a calling to serve youth, disciplined work ethic, unconditional care, grit, a willingness to have fun, and passionate about being part of what is happening at the Ranch, send your resume to Brett Bailey. The Ranch will contact you immediately to start the interview process and begin to get to know you. If it's a good fit, they’ll have you do paperwork right at that time!
Brett Bailey
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Upon summer's end, Adventure Guides have the opportunity to transition into a year-round Therapeutic Adventure Manager! Working with and supervising other guides, Therapeutic Adventure Managers lead year-round adventure and wilderness programs lasting 1-12 days at a time. You’ll intentionally use a multitude of adventure activities on the Ranch such as ropes courses, team challenges, and aquatics programs, along with backpacking trips, paddling and whitewater trips, multi-sport and climbing trips, and primitive skills/living programs to help youth and others heal from the past and grow hope for the future. This is a full-time, year-round salaried position with a full benefits package that also includes shared housing, meals when programs are running, 12-40 PTO days/year, 12 annual paid holidays, and up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement for job related training. Positions available: 4-6
