{"id":49586,"date":"2023-05-28T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=49586"},"modified":"2023-05-25T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:29:47","slug":"job-outdoor-education-instructor-niu-lorado-taft-field-campus-oregon-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-outdoor-education-instructor-niu-lorado-taft-field-campus-oregon-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Outdoor Education Instructor, NIU Lorado Taft Field Campus (Oregon, IL)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!--more--><strong>Job Type: <\/strong>Temporary<br \/><strong>Salary Details:<\/strong> $2,000\/month<\/p>\n<p>The Lorado Taft Field Campus is Northern Illinois University\u2019s outdoor education and conference center and is located in Oregon, Illinois. Taft Campus\u2019 outdoor education program is generally multidisciplinary, place-based, and experiential, and planned in close partnership with the visiting schools with the goal of providing excellent programming and customer service to the visiting students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Lorado Taft Field Campus is looking to fill multiple positions for its Outdoor Education Instructor position for the 2023-2024 school year. All positions require successful hires to live in provided campus housing.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about Lorado Taft Field Campus, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niu.edu\/taft\/\">https:\/\/www.niu.edu\/taft\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Position Description Summary:<\/u> \u00a0<\/strong>The Outdoor Education Instructor is responsible for the instruction of resident outdoor education experiences for elementary and middle school students.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Duties and Responsibilities:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop and teach classes, primarily in the outdoor environment, to students in the 4th to 8th<\/li>\n<li>Develop curricula and resources for the program.<\/li>\n<li>Assist in the maintenance and upkeep of campus teaching, habitat, and resource storage areas.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in staff training prior to teaching and throughout the school year.<\/li>\n<li>Assist in the coordination of the residential outdoor education program.<\/li>\n<li>Provide guest services and assist in security and emergency procedures.<\/li>\n<li>Complete projects assigned by the faculty supervisors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Minimum Required Qualifications<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor\u2019s Degree in education, science, natural resources, recreation, history, or related field.<\/li>\n<li>Two months experience teaching or facilitating learning experiences for youth. This may include classroom teaching, summer camp, natural history or environmental education, facilitating outdoor recreation experiences and other non-formal teaching experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Preferred Qualifications<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience as an educator, program staff, naturalist or related position at a residential outdoor education center, nature center, or similar facility preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Previous experience in preparing lesson plans, outlines, or guides in preparation to teach or facilitate activities.<\/li>\n<li>Previous experience leading or facilitating groups in team building activities.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated enthusiasm for the outdoors and outdoor education, even when conditions are challenging.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated professionalism as related to the field.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated initiative to go above and beyond minimum assigned duties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to work effectively with co-workers and supervisors to achieve the goals of the program.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to convey information about environmental topics without bias and with the goal of encouraging lifelong learning.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to effectively engage in behavior management in order to maintain students\u2019 interest and participation in outdoor classes and activities.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to manage work time effectively and with little supervision to ensure preparedness and project completion.<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility and the ability to deal with the unexpected and quickly changing nature of outdoor activities and children.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated competence in verbal communication, particularly the ability to present information, ideas, directions, etc. in a clear and concise manner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Physical Demands<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ability to hike hilly, uneven terrain. Ability to be on feet for much of the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Salary and Benefits:<\/u><\/strong> $2000\/month; private room in furnished, shared housing; welcome to meals when dining hall is in operation; health, vision, and dental insurance.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Background Check<\/strong>:<\/u> A successful pre-employment background check investigation, including a successful criminal background check will be required prior to start date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"job-frame__how-to-apply__title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>HOW TO APPLY<br \/><\/strong><\/span><strong>Required Applicant Documents<\/strong><u> <\/u><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Cover Letter<\/li>\n<li>Resume\/Curriculum Vitae<\/li>\n<li>Transcripts (unofficial with official required at hire)<\/li>\n<li>List of three references<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For full consideration, please submit application and documents through NIU online employment system at <a href=\"https:\/\/employment.niu.edu\/postings\/69442\">https:\/\/employment.niu.edu\/postings\/69442<\/a>.\u00a0 Applications will be accepted until all positions are filled.\u00a0 For questions contact Lorado Taft Campus director, Melanie Costello, <a href=\"mailto:melcostello@niu.edu\">melcostello@niu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9909,"featured_media":34097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[15,208],"tags":[4,5212,176,3738,866,4147,50,1112,242,277,901,1206,687,4096,1678,33,281,1300,13,585,3398,9,1668,4996,1317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49586"}],"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\/9909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49587,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49586\/revisions\/49587"}],"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=49586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}