Outdoor Living Skills Core Counselor
Seasonal
Free room and board
Pay: $476/week
Season Dates: May 17, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Do you want to spend a paid summer in Alaska? Join us at Camp K for fun at one of Alaska's most beautiful camps in Cooper Landing. Just two hours South of Anchorage, our camp is located on the beautiful Kenai Peninsula; where fishing, hiking, backpacking, climbing, and more are at your fingertips. If you love adventure and want to build an inclusive and loving community at our camp, this is a perfect job for you!
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
This position provides oversight to the Outdoor Living Skills (OLS) Program, which entails developing and teaching nature, outdoor education, and outdoor living skills activities. You'll have a great opportunity to gain valuable experience leading expedition trips with small groups of older campers along with participating in teaching OLS activities, such as; swimming, boating, aquatics, target sports, etc. You'll gain experience collaborating with program leadership to identify camp needs, develop/implement successful programming, and take part in the evaluations of the programs. Through this position, you'll reside on the premises of Camp K in the Chugach National Forrest with everyday opportunities to be off the grid, experience wildlife, and take in the epic beauty right outside your cabin door!
QUALIFICATIONS
BENEFITS
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*All applicants who are offered employment with Camp Fire Alaska will be subjected to reference checks and a criminal history check through the Alaska Background Check Program. Offers of employment are contingent on successful completion of both the reference checks and criminal history check in accordance with Municipality of Anchorage Child Care Licensing regulations.
Camp Fire Alaska Inclusion Statement:
Camp Fire believes in the dignity and the intrinsic worth of every human being. We welcome, affirm, and support young people and adults of all abilities and disabilities, experiences, races, ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, citizenship or immigration status, religion and non-religion, and any other category people use to define themselves or others.