Work with us

 Positions currently available:

Lead Environmental Educator Position, Fall 2024/Spring/Summer/Fall 2025

The Echo Pond Environmental Education Centre (previously known as the Brother Brennan Centre) is looking to add a Lead Environmental Educator to our core staff team starting in September 2024.

Our site is open from May-November, so this is the perfect job for a substitute teacher who is looking for guaranteed position or someone with a “winter job”. As the Lead Environmental Educator, you would start your job in September 2025 with our school program. This program ends in November. The school program picks back up in May-June. In July/August you would work alongside our Assistant Camp Directors to deliver a memorable overnight camp experience at our popular program, Echo Pond Summer Camp. When the camp season is over, you would transition back into our school program until November 2025.

About the Centre:

The Centre is located in the beautiful boreal ‘Fog Forest’ of the Avalon Peninsula, off of Salmonier Line. It is about 1 hour 15 minutes from St. John’s.

School groups visit the Centre for 2-day overnight field trips during the fall and spring of each year. During these field trips, students engage in hands-on, experiential learning activities that help them connect with nature and bring their school-learning to life in the real world. Our summer camp is a nature-based overnight camp for ages 7-16.

Lead Environmental Educator role:

School Program

With support from the Executive Director, the Lead Environmental Educator leads a team of environmental educators in a variety of activities related to climate change, biodiversity, ecosystems, and food sustainability. Some of the activities include: nature journaling, orienteering, shelter-building, night hikes, storytelling and campfires.

Summer Camp

The Lead Environmental Educator (LEE) will work alongside our Assistant Camp Director and Camp Counselors to deliver an unforgettable summer camp experience for over 300 campers. With a focus on empathy, the LEE will respond to camper behaviors while also scheduling activities, organizing materials, and ensuring staff breaks. Activities include swimming, canoeing, archery, group games, arts and crafts, and more. The LEE will also manage logistics to ensure smooth camp operations.

Qualifications and skills:

  • Has degree/diploma in Environmental Studies, Geography, Natural Sciences, Education, Outdoor Education, or equivalent experience
  • Has experience leading Environmental Education programming in an outdoor setting (preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability and likes to work with children
  • Interest and knowledge in ecology, sustainability and the environment
  • Interest in teaching and leading educational activities and games
  • Enjoys being active and is comfortable in a wilderness setting
  • Works well in a team environment

Responsibilities:

  • Lead educational activities and games, including explanations of ecological concepts
    Be aware of the relevant NLSchools Curriculum Outcomes to make sure key concepts are covered (i.e. Life Science units in Grade 5, 6, 7, 8, Science 1206)
  • Explain site rules to visiting students
  • Communicate with and coordinate Environmental Educators and visiting teachers while they’re on-site
  • Communicate with kitchen staff (to coordinate meal timing, report any allergies, inform them of # of students who are present)
  • Responsible for keeping program to schedule and modifying where needed due to weather conditions, etc. (Policy and Procedures manual will be available to consult).
  • Make sure all Health and Safety Protocol is being adhered to
  • The LEE will also oversee logistics to ensure smooth camp operations, creating a magical and educational experience for all campers.
  • Must have driver’s license and access to a vehicle.

Required documents:

First Aid Certificate

Criminal Record with Vulnerable Sector Check

Pay: $20.00-$25.00 per hour

Expected hours:

School program: Shifts run from 9am one day, to 5pm the next (staying overnight is required). An overtime rate of time and a half is paid when working more than 40 hours per week. Meals are provided.

Summer camp: A full week is 50 hours (10 of those hours are overtime). Meals are provided. Carpooling is available regularly in the summer.

teaching: 1 year (preferred)

 

Please send resumes and a short cover letter to jobs (at) echopond.ca