Employment Opportunities
WE’RE HIRING NATURE EDUCATORS FOR OUR EARLY YEARS PROGRAM!
Current Openings:
Comox Valley Location Manager:
Full Time (32.5+ hours/week), Monday – Friday
Comox Valley Nature Educator:
Part Time (17.5+ hours/week), Monday – Friday, mornings
Part Time (7+ hours/week), Tuesday & Thursday, mornings
Program-Wide Substitute Nature Educator:
Monday, Wednesday & Friday, mornings and/or afternoons
Tuesday & Thursday, mornings
Required Qualifications
- Ability to deliver child-led, nature-based programming based upon the age, ability and needs of children
- Demonstrates good communication skills with our forest friends, families and team members
- Relates to people from a wide range of backgrounds and understands and values diversity
- Exhibits good judgment, critical thinking and creative problem solving
- Works collaboratively within a team environment
- Able to handle emergencies skillfully and calmly
- Is in sufficient health to handle physical tasks such walking, running short distances, squatting, bending, kneeling (to get down on our forest friends’ level throughout the day), lifting (up to 30 lbs), pulling a wagon, etc.
- Enjoys working outside in any weather
- Clean and current Criminal Record Check
- Current First Aid Certificate
Preferred Qualifications
- Forest School Practitioner
- Early Childhood Educator
- Early Childhood Educator Assistant
- Kindergarten teacher
- Experience working with children aged 2-5 years old
IF INTERESTED PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME TO PROGRAM DIRECTOR JARRETT KRENTZEL
jarrett@hand-in-handeducation.com
Support the Forest
The Cumberland Forest is part of an interconnected system of forests, salmon-bearing creeks, wetlands and riparian areas adjacent to the Village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island in the traditional territory of the K’omoks Nation.
