Stipend - Outdoor Experience Support (COA) (Internal Only) (SY25-26)
Stipend - Outdoor Experience Support (COA) (Internal Only) (SY25-26)
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Title: Stipend - Outdoor Experience Support (COA) (Internal Only) (SY25-26)
School Description:
The Chelsea Opportunity Academy is a place where students who have struggled to be successful in traditional schools flourish. Through flexible scheduling blended learning and individualized support students make continual progress towards earning a high school diploma by demonstrating the skills to take on increasingly complex challenges. Students competing priorities outside of school are valued respected and leveraged as learning experiences for school credit. They are active participants and have a voice in all aspects of school design policy and operations. Students staff and adult mentors form lasting relationships as they work together to build an effective and meaningful plan in preparation for college career and life after high school.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
This candidate will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of up to 12 outdoor experiences per year. This includes but is not limited to processing of field trip request forms in collaboration with our schools Data Management Specialist reservations of any needed transportation ordering of food arranging of lodging leading recruitment for trips building of trip curriculum gear organization and management communication with administration on at least a weekly basis. This
program will run for the fall winter and spring.
Qualifications: The ideal Outdoor Experience Support person is a bilingual staff member who has experience in planning operationalizing and leading all aspects of multi day overnight outdoor trips. This person should be a meticulous planner and strong communicator. In addition this person should have:
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- The ability to use suite in all planning.
- The ability to communicate with students and families in both English and Spanish written and spoken.
- Certification through the Appalachian Mountain Clubs Educators Outdoor program.
- Certification or past certification in wilderness first aid strongly preferred.
- Understanding of COAs core values mission statement and academic model.
- Ability to create innovative curriculum that will better align our Outdoor Experience course to our competency based model.
- Understanding of COAs learning management system.
Compensation:Teachers will be paid at the contractual rate for work outside of the school day.
Dates/Time:School Year 2024-2025
Application: Upload a letter of interest to the documents section of your application in TalentEd.
Letter of interest describing qualifications and experience to the Principal with examples of how you demonstrate the above qualifications in your daily practice. Please also respond to the following questions in your letter:
- How can one bring equity to outdoor spaces
- Please provide an example of strong organization and communication within the context of schools.
- What is your philosophy around decision-making in the outdoors
- What goals would you have for a group of students who are participating in an Outdoor Experience trip
Reports To:Building Principal
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Chelsea Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free fromdiscrimination on the basis of race color religion national origin pregnancy gender identitysexual orientation marital/civil union status ancestry place of birth age citizenship statusveteran status political affiliation genetic information or disability as defined and required bystate and federal laws. Additionally we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose suchdiscrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.
Employment Type
Part-Time
