Outdoor Youth Mentor
We encourage women and individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply. If you're passionate about the outdoors and committed to making a difference, we want to hear from you. No previous professional outdoor experience is required.
Full time, year round | 8 days on/6 days off | $152-260/day | Benefits
Orientation Weeks: January 29th, March 26th, & April 23th
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Our Mission:
With the wilderness as our catalyst, we reveal potential, inspire hope, and heal families. We believe it. We live it.
About the Role: As an Outdoor Youth Mentor, you play a crucial role in the healing process for our students. You will work closely with at-risk teenagers, helping them navigate their challenges and discover their potential through outdoor experiences. Your presence and guidance are essential in creating a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment.
What You'll Do:
- Robust Training: Outdoor Youth Mentors complete an Orientation Week that gets you started in both hard skills (outdoor-oriented) and soft skills (relationship building and clinical understanding).
- Mentorship: Build strong, supportive relationships with students, providing mentorship and guidance.
- Outdoor Skills: Teach students essential outdoor skills, such as creating bowdrill fire sets, building shelters, and navigating the wilderness.
- Recreation: Facilitate mountain biking, slack lining, disc golf, and other outdoor recreation activities.
- Exploration: Lead students on adventures to visit petroglyphs, ghost towns, and mountain peaks, and watch the sunrise over herds of mustangs.
- Team Collaboration: Work alongside a dedicated team of guides, fostering a collaborative and supportive atmosphere.
- Safety and Supervision: Ensure the safety and well-being of students at all times.
Shift Details: You will join one of our two rotating shifts, working 8-day shifts in the backcountry with small groups of teenagers and 1-3 other guides. All guides have the opportunity to work both programs:
- ThreePeaks Groups: These groups live at a base camp in yurts. They engage in day hikes and other recreation activities.
- RedCliff Groups: These groups live primitively and nomadically, hiking and setting up camp across 400-square-mile valley in the high desert.
Outdoor Youth Mentors can expect to start in the ThreePeaks Groups and be in the ThreePeaks groups more frequently.
Why This Job is Rewarding:
- Transform Lives: Be a beacon of hope for teenagers and their families, helping them overcome significant challenges.
- Gain Experience: Acquire valuable experience in behavioral and mental health while developing outdoor leadership skills.
- Supportive Environment: Join a team that values collaboration, creativity, and safety, ensuring you have the support you need to succeed.
- Empowerment: Empower students to develop resilience, confidence, and life skills through shared experiences in nature.
- Advancement: Advancement opportunities are integral to the Outdoor Youth Mentor position. As you gain field experience and demonstrate proficiency in both technical and interpersonal skills, you will have the opportunity to advance and increase your earnings.
Join Us: Become a part of the RedCliff and ThreePeaks team. Help heal families, save lives, and share your passion for the outdoors. Together, we can make a lasting impact.
Responsibilities
- Work 8 consecutive days in the backcountry with struggling teenagers
- Ensure the supervision and safety of students
- Mentor students in primitive and outdoor skills
- Assist students in their curriculum work
- Share appreciation and knowledge of nature and the outdoors
- Lead students through experiential activities
- Facilitate group discussions
- Create a safe environment for students to process their emotions
- De-escalate and manage crises within the group
- Provide support, direction, and feedback to coworkers during shifts
- Address challenges and obstacles of the backcountry creatively and safely
- Carry essential gear such as 1st Aid kit, radio, and SPOT device
- Follow all company policies and procedures
- Follow all local, state, and federal rules, regulations, and laws
- Remember to have fun--we are working with kids!
Requirements
Please note: Your resume should include education, work experience, certifications, and licenses.
Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements at the time they submit their application will not be considered.
Hard Skills
- High School diploma or equivalent, college degree preferred
- Must be 1st Aid & CPR certified (30 day grace period), WFR (Wilderness First Responder) preferred
- 19+ years of age
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Able to pass criminal investigation background check
- Able to pass pre-employment health assessment
- Permanently authorized to work in the USA
- Professional or personal experience in the backcountry AND/OR
- Professional or personal experience working with at-risk youth
- Fully outfitted (able to purchase gear when employment begins, if desired)
- Physical ability and stamina to work 8 day shifts in the back country and live primitively
- Walk, hike, and/or climb daily over uneven terrain in all weather conditions carrying 40+ pounds
Soft Skills
- Work well within a team
- Leadership skills and ability to make decisions
- Strong problem-solving aptitude
- Able to emotionally self-regulate
- Good judgement
- Safety-oriented
- Able to give and receive feedback
- Firm, healthy boundaries
- Fully outfitted
Benefits
- Find your tribe: A supportive and close-knit niche in the outdoor community. These are your people.
- 8 on/6 off schedule means you have about 150 days off each year!
- Discounted membership at local gym
- Only have to drive to work 4-5 times a month
- Accommodation available at base for the nights before and after your shift (beds, kitchen, showers)
- Bonuses
- Full-time job with guaranteed overtime
- Health, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, and other insurance plans available after first 60 days
- Employer contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Pro deals! Significant discounts for hundreds of professional outdoor gear brands
- Long off-shifts ideal for travel, exploring Utah's Big 5, or any other adventure!
- A few hours from Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Powell
- A few hours from many world-class ski resorts
- Close to Mccarran International Airport in Las Vegas