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Hiring: Facilitators and/or Canoe Trip Guides
Organization: Trails Youth Initiatives
Location: Stouffville, Greater Toronto Area / Ontario
Who Are We?
Trails Youth Initiatives is a charity and private school that provides a long-term program for vulnerable youth. We focus on fostering community, emotional intelligence, and self-knowledge through outdoor experiential education. We augment students’ traditional schooling with intentional community-building, conscious challenge, and lifelong support in order to position them for success.
Participants commit to our four-year program with a group of 20 of their peers: two weeks each summer, and one weekend per month during the school year. At this home-away-from-home camp setting, participants build resiliency by developing a connection to their peers, a connection to a place, and a connection to themselves. Trails focuses on growing and strengthening skills such as Non-violent Communication, conflict resolution, leadership, critical thinking, and reflection. With our focus on transference, participants build positive engagement with Trails, the outdoors, and their authentic selves. Typical daily activities may include hiking, canoeing, swimming, camping, skiing, snowshoeing and yoga.
Position Overview:
Reporting to the Program Director, Facilitators work with youth aged 11-17 in an overnight setting. Facilitators provide 24-hour supervision to participants in addition to teaching principles of healthy living and seasonal outdoor activities such as canoeing, swimming, camping skills, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. During the summer, Facilitators are also responsible for leading camping trips at Trails Lakeside site in Stouffville (Years 1 and 2) and/or off-site canoe trips (Years 3, 4, 5) in Ontario’s backcountry (e.g. Algonquin Park, Temagami).
Weekend sessions (October–May) require Facilitators to be on site overnight from Friday 5pm through Sunday 5pm, and consist of seven sessions total (approximately one weekend per month). Summer sessions (June–August) consist of a minimum of 11 days up to 13 days consecutively, including work over weekends and holidays.
We are mindful of the value of varied experience beyond the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to fulfilling the criteria below, please consider applying. Trails often offers access to some courses and certifications listed below in order to equip our staff with necessary skills to be successful in this role.
Crucially, you will be passionate about the Charity’s mission to challenge and equip vulnerable youth to become contributing members of the community.
Required Skills, Qualifications, and Certifications:
Key Accountabilities:
Leadership and Teaching
Safety
Communication
Additional Duties
Session Dates:
Weekend Session Dates:
#1 |
#2 |
#3 |
October 13-15, 2023 November 10-12, 2023 December 1-3, 2023 January 19-21, 2024 February 23-25, 2024 April 5-7, 2024 April 26-28, 2024 |
October 20-22, 2023 November 17-19, 2023 December 8-10, 2023 January 26-28, 2024 March 1-3, 2024 April 12-14, 2024 May 3-5, 2024 |
October 27 - 29, 2023 November 24 - 26, 2023 January 12 - 14, 2024 February 9 - 11, 2024 March 22 - 24, 2024 April 19 - 21, 2024 May 10 - 12, 2024 |
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Required Training:
- Sept 29 (5:30pm) - October 1 (5:30pm) - Staff training weekend
- November 4th, 2023 - 9am - 5pm
- January 6, 2024 (February 3, 2024 as a back-up date if weather is not suitable for the workshop) - 9am - 5pm
Summer 2024 Session Dates:
On site session (Stouffville, ON) |
Off-site - Canoe Trip |
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Year 1A |
July 8 - 18th, 2024 |
Year 5 |
June 25 - July 8th, 2024 |
Year 1B |
July 22 - August 1st, 2024 |
Year 3 |
July 22 - August 1st, 2024 |
Year 2A |
August 5 - 16th, 2024 |
Year 4 |
August 19 - 30th, 2024 |
Year 2B |
August 19 - 30th, 2024 |
*Offsite trip staff require additional certifications |
Required Training:
- June 21 (5:30pm) - 23 (5:30pm), 2024 - Staff Training weekend
Thank you for your interest.
Please email opportunities@trails.ca with your cover letter and resume and to set up an information call.
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To learn more, please visit our website http://www.trails.ca
“ Four Seasons, For Years, For Life.”
Trails is recognized as one of Maclean’s Best Canadian Charities
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Current status: Open/apply now. Date posted: Aug 26 2023 ID: 67284