ARC is hiring!
POSITION: Adventure Risk Challenge, a UC Berkeley literacy and leadership program, is hiring both a highly-qualified course director and instructor for our 2012 summer, 40-day course.
LOCATION: Yosemite National Park or Truckee, CA
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 31, 2012
DESCRIPTION:
ARC integrates academics (English, reading, writing, public speaking, research and environmental studies) with adventure education programming. The model is based on the New York City Outward Bound Center leadership and literacy program and adjusted to target English Language Learner students and to fit local California community needs. We link wilderness to academics, adventure to leadership, environmental science to literacy and confidence to activism.
The summer course includes wilderness components which span three mountaineering/backpacking trips, sea-kayaking, and other short expeditions, including rock climbing and rafting. The base camp components are held at the UC field stations in Wawona and near Truckee. They include daily morning physical fitness, English and Environmental Science class, group reading, and evening leadership classes. This is a summer semester course, which includes 40 days with the students, approximately 20 days of training prior to the start of the course, and a few days of postcourse debrief. Work will begin between May 14th and May 24th and will conclude between August 2nd and August 10th, 2012.
QUALIFICATIONS: This is a very rigorous summer course and requires a high level of professionalism, organization, and skill.
Minimum qualifications include:
o Current WFR and CPR
o Experience leading or co-leading groups of youth backpacking in the wilderness
o Significant experience teaching (traditionally or non-traditionally) English, Environmental Science, AND/OR Leadership
o 4-year degree
Preferred qualifications include:
o Masters degree or 4-year degree in related field
o Current teaching credential
o Fluent in Spanish
COMPENSATION: Pay depends on experience and typically ranges from $100 to $110 per day.
TO APPLY: Please e-mail all resumes and a cover letter answering the following questions to Jennifer Gurecki and Sarah Cupery Ottley: jgurecki@berkeley.edu, scottley@berkeley.edu. We will contact you the second week of February. For more information on our program, please visit our website at www.arcprogram.org.
1) What are your strengths as a teacher in the classroom? What skills are you interested in developing?
2) What are your strengths as a leader in the backcountry? What skills are you interested in developing?
3) Describe your ideal co-instructor. What qualities would best complement your strengths? Your areas of growth?
4) What types of experiences, both personal and professional, have prepared you to manage risk in the backcountry?
5) Why do you specifically want to work for ARC?
6) In what ways have you personally grown as a human being and a leader in the last year?
7) How do you support your own growth and that of others, especially the students with which you work?
