Job Type: Temporary
Salary Details: $11.00 per hour<\/p>\n
See full details at https:\/\/www.conservationjobboard.com\/job-listing-coastal-environmental-educator-tybee-island-georgia\/2361072447<\/a><\/p>\n Make the beach and salt marsh your new outdoor classroom on a Georgia barrier island; this opportunity is perfect for the outdoor enthusiast! As part of Georgia 4-H and the University of Georgia, the\u00a0Burton 4-H Center on Tybee Island<\/a>\u00a0provides high-quality day and residential environmental educational experiences.<\/p>\n Seasonal Environmental Educators<\/strong>\u00a0will teach hands-on day and night classes most frequently to 3rd-8th grade students. Commonly taught classes cover material from ecology of the beach, maritime forest and salt marsh to herpetology, invertebrates, dissections and more.<\/p>\n Duties also include,<\/strong>\u00a0and are not limited to, dorm cleaning, assisting with meal service in the dining hall, maintaining teaching facilities and supplies, providing animal husbandry for residential education animals, operating a UGA mini-bus, lead staff rotations, and various maintenance projects on center as needed. Educators must be able to work outside in buggy environments, extreme heat \/ cold and be flexible as schedules sometimes change with changing weather conditions.<\/p>\n Benefits include<\/strong>\u00a0compensation of $11.00\/hour (hours per week will depend on reservations and will vary from week to week), a private bedroom in a spacious staff house for $20\/week, limited health insurance, opportunities to network with other UGA 4-H centers, and training in coastal barrier island ecology and environmental education. Plus, the experience to live on an island full of life, just a short stroll to the beach and 15 miles to historic downtown Savannah.<\/p>\n HOW TO APPLY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Applicants are required to have a Bachelor’s degree (education or science preferred), minimum 1-2 years of experience working in a summer camp and\/or outdoor education setting, passion for teaching children, leadership ability, effective communication skills, a positive attitude, flexibility and the desire to work as a team. Energetic people eager to grow and lead with a passion for education and the outdoors will thrive here.<\/p>\n Please apply at\u00a0https:\/\/www.ugajobsearch.com\/postings\/192602<\/a>\u00a0Then email Environmental Education Program Coordinator,\u00a0Erine-Fay McNaught<\/a>, your application confirmation #, attached resume, cover letter and 3 work references \u00a0or 3 letters of recommendation (academic references will not be considered). If interviewed, applicants will be asked to teach a 10 to 15 minute lesson (without PowerPoint) and perform a favorite campfire song\/story.<\/p>\n Burton 4-H Center is accepting applications until filled for the Fall 2021-Spring 2022 Environmental Education Season (start dtae September 1, 2021 June 3, 2022; short-term 4 to 6 week Christmas break depending on reservations and Hurricane season).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,33,141,13,27,131,9,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42573,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions\/42573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}