Trackers Earth is a youth organization that inspires kids to navigate real challenges. We believe they can truly contribute, developing the grit and character they need to thrive! Kids learn old-school outdoor skills: wilderness survival, farm craft, wild foraging, fishing, martial arts, boating, and more. All this in immersive camps and programs filled with epic story and adventure.
The Opportunity
Join us! Help us create the premier outdoor youth program locally and worldwide. Your role? A Trackers Supervisor is manager and mentor to hundreds of staff and thousands of students. Develop and oversee a Trackers Earth summer and break camp location, serving 4,500+ campers a year. Collaborate on and implement curriculum for in-depth school year mentoring programs, cultivating strong relationships with Trackers families as we build our community. Working with the region’s General Manager, be responsible for growth in quality and service of your operational site.
The Game of Tracking
Trackers Earth’s core curriculum is like a live-action role-playing game where kids play and learn skills while divided into our Four Guilds: Rangers, Wilders, Mariners, Artisans.
Rangers Guild Rangers train to be Ready. They master the arts of forest craft, honing skills of wilderness survival, tracking, and awareness.
Wilders Guilds Wilders live as Caretakers. They tend to plants, trees, and odd mushrooms, finding ways to regenerate the land.
Mariners Guild Mariners grow to be Gritty. They sail by salty trade and wisdom, fishing and foraging, traveling by creek, river, and sea.
Artisans Guild Artisans connect the Team. They act as ringmasters of humor, heart, and wisdom, walking bare-of-foot and sleeping under the twilight sky.
As the Site Supervisor and Teacher, you lead our Artisans Guild. You are the circus ringmaster of a major immersive entertainment and educational event! You work with Trackers founders and leadership to align our operations with core Trackers values and to facilitate the Game of Tracking in all programs.
Grow Trackers
Trackers Earth serves over 20,000 students each year and is growing. The programs you help build teach leading-edge outdoor skills that cultivate competence, capability, and curiosity in the youth we serve. Your efforts help kids better contribute to their family, nature, and many generations beyond us.
As a Trackers Supervisor, you are key to engaging our Trackers For Life journey—a program that trains teens, parents, and seniors to be outdoor educators and Trackers staff. In this critical role, you help our community build our programs both as students and guides. Join a seasoned, dedicated, and expert team to move outdoor education toward its greater potential. Come guide kids to reclaim childhood and their connection to the wild!
Supervisor Responsibilities:
- Learn to teach, develop, and implement programs based on a range of the following skills:
- Forest Craft, Archery & Wilderness Survival
- Farm Craft, Animal Care & Wild Plants
- Mariners Craft, Fishing & Boating
- Outdoor Adventure, Paddling & Rock Climbing
- Woodworking, Ceramics, Blacksmithing & more!
- Be a mentor, and remember what it’s like to be a kid.
- Break Camp: Summer, Spring, Winter Oversee and manage a Trackers Earth summer and break camp location serving upwards to 4500 campers a year.
School Year Plan for Summer, Spring and Winter programs. Mentor and teach in our - Homeschool, Weekend Apprenticeship, or After School programs.
- Inspire, motivate, and energize youth and families by offering in-depth quality in programming.
- Recruit, assemble, train, manage, and evaluate Interns, Guides, and Coordinators.
- Supervise and manage break camp sites and programs with Coordinators and Guide teams.
- Train, supervise, and evaluate Interns, Leads, and Coordinators for optimal safety, quality, operations, culture, and developing employee improvement plans as necessary.
- Encourage safe independence in Youth and Guides.
- Reinforce our culture, focusing on can-do attitude and positive, and solutions based collaboration.
- Maintain professional and positive standards within the organization.
- Thoughtfully follow and enforce all Trackers policies and procedures for safety and quality.
- Be responsible for administering risk management and governance frameworks.
- Direct staff in proper usage, maintenance and storage of program gear to create a highly organized culture of tidiness.
- Anticipate and exceed the expectations of Trackers Earth campers and families.
- Collaborate with team members to respond to camper/guardian feedback in a timely manner.
- Communicate and document in all matters of safety, quality, operations, staffing, and culture on a daily basis.
- Willingness to develop your own skills that apply to Trackers culture and goals.
Qualifications:
- Completed Vaccinations for COVID-19 (verification required)
- 2+ years (or 4 seasons) experience leading and managing adult teams, preferably in outdoor or educational settings
- Implementing systems and processes with a team of adult colleagues of more than 2, with a commitment to organizational governance (incl. safety, risk management, and quality)
- Implementing organizational frameworks, training, objectives, and values
- Identifying, synthesizing, and effectively communicating objective
(organizational) feedback to colleagues with measurable, positive outcomes
- A high level of communication effectiveness with customers, managing solution oriented best practice
- Working with large groups of youth while dividing them into smaller, self-directed teams
- 2+ years (or 4 seasons) experience in outdoor skills or 3+ in general education
- Experience with summer camps similar to Trackers or skills relevant to Trackers programming
- Proven ability to exercise discretion and judgment that reflects critical thinking while managing campers and staff in remote locations with limited support
- Can adapt to changing logistics and collaborate on solutions in a calm, positive way
- Act as a role model and support the culture of the Trackers Code and Trackers Elements (outdoor skills) with campers and staff
- Possess grit, becoming more calm, creative, and proactive when challenged
- Model professionalism while supporting campers, families, and colleagues
- Can stand, bend, squat, climb, lift (up to 50 lbs), hike on and off trail (up to 5 miles) per day
Trackers will complete pre-employment criminal background & references checks
Supervisors need the following certifications (or able to complete before starting):
CPR/First Aid/Anaphylaxis & Epinephrine Auto-Injector
Food Handlers
Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect (OR & WA)
Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training - General (CA)
State fishing license
Class B Commercial Driver's License (CDL) required. Trackers will assist you in getting this certification
Location
Be able to report to any Bay Area Location
About Trackers
Since 2004, kids and extended families in all their forms have journeyed on adventures with Trackers Earth and our Guides. We share the Arts of Tracking through stewardship and enduring outdoor skills. We commit to developing opportunity by respecting the diverse cultures and values of every Guide, youth, and family serving with us. We endeavor to grow with families for the increased accessibility of these experiences. We define ourselves by an ever deeper kinship to the more than human world, multi-generational character, and the principles discovered and found in the quietest moments with the forest.