Organization: Bark Lake Leadership Centre
Location: Bark Lake Leadership Centre, Irondale / Haliburton East, Ontario
Outdoor Program Facilitators needed — September through November & January through April
Term: Contract User based [possibly year round]
Salary: Based on experience and qualifications [$80-126/day]
Job shadow: By invitation after reference check
Contact: Russ Hartman, Director of Program & Marketing
Bark Lake Leadership Centre
1551 Bark Lake Drive
P.O. Box 93, Irondale, ON K0M 1X0
russ@barklake.com
Want to empower youth of all ages to work together in an outdoor environment?
Want to help transform them with creative thinking and teamwork?
Do you consider yourself an emergent professional at facilitating these outdoor experiences?
Bark Lake Leadership Centre offers a role in a unique outdoor leadership program which challenges guests from all over the world while working with other qualified and enthusiastic staff.
Minimal qualifications required include:
• 1-year+ (4 seasons) in a recreational, educational or outdoor work related experience.
• Current Standard First Aid (CPR –C) certificate
• Post Secondary Education
• Current and acceptable Police Record Check
• Relevant soft skills in customer service and youth/adult interaction
Preferred qualifications requested include:
• WILD Education — Project WILD, Instructor status
• National Lifeguard Service (NLS) Waterfront qualifications
• Red Cross Lifeguard or Bronze Cross, Instructor status
• Challenge Course Certifications — ACCT Level 1-2
• Second Language is an asset- Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese
• Ontario Recreational Canoe & Kayak Association(ORCKA) qualifications- Basic Canoe Instructor desired
• Chainsaw Operator, Pleasure Craft Operator(PCO)
Living on site, you will have the opportunity to facilitate and implement a range of outdoor team-building, leadership and community development programs for youth and adult aged groups. You bring to this position a related degree or post secondary training in outdoor education and related outdoor experiences. A commitment to innovative programming, a love of the outdoors and the ability to work within a team complete your profile.
Our vision is to offer our guests a challenging outdoor learning environment with support team-building, character and environmental understanding. Bark Lake’s superb program is the result of bringing together gifted and caring facilitators with outstanding and motivated students/guests. If you are a dynamic and innovative individual — and want to contribute to this vision — we invite you to join the Bark Lake Leadership Centre team for this contract position.
Submit your resume, a compelling cover letter, list of qualifications and the names of three references to: russ@barklake.com
