Title: Stipend - Outdoor Experience Support (COA) (Internal Only) (SY24-25)

 

School Description:

 

The Chelsea Opportunity Academy is a place where students who have struggled to be successful in traditional schools flourish. Through flexible scheduling, blended learning and individualized support, students make continual progress towards earning a high school diploma by demonstrating the skills to take on increasingly complex challenges. Student’s competing priorities outside of school are valued, respected and leveraged as learning experiences for school credit. They are active participants and have a voice in all aspects of school design, policy, and operations. Students, staff, and adult mentors form lasting relationships as they work together to build an effective and meaningful plan in preparation for college, career and life after high school.

 

Responsibilities:

 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

 

This candidate will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of up to 12 outdoor experiences per year. This includes, but is not limited to, processing of field trip request forms in collaboration with our schools’ Data Management Specialist, reservations of any needed transportation, ordering of food, arranging of lodging, leading recruitment for trips, building of trip curriculum, gear organization and management, communication with administration on at least a weekly basis. This
program will run for the fall, winter, and spring. 

 

Qualifications: The ideal Outdoor Experience Support person is a bilingual staff member who has experience in planning, operationalizing, and leading all aspects of multi day, overnight outdoor trips. This person should be a meticulous planner and strong communicator. In addition, this person should have:

• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• The ability to use Google.Drive suite in all planning.
• The ability to communicate with students and families in both English and Spanish, written and spoken.
• Certification through the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Educator’s Outdoor program.
• Certification, or past certification, in wilderness first aid strongly preferred.
• Understanding of COA’s core values, mission statement, and academic model.
• Ability to create innovative curriculum that will better align our Outdoor Experience course to our competency based model.
• Understanding of COA’s learning management system.

Compensation: Teachers will be paid at the contractual rate for work outside of the school day.

 

Dates/Time: School Year 2024-2025

 

Application: Upload a letter of interest to the "documents" section of your application in TalentEd. 

 

Letter of interest describing qualifications and experience to the Principal with examples of how you demonstrate the above qualifications in your daily practice. Please also respond to the following questions in your letter:

1. How can one bring equity to outdoor spaces?
2. Please provide an example of strong organization and communication within the context of schools.
3. What is your philosophy around decision-making in the outdoors?
4. What goals would you have for a group of students who are participating in an Outdoor Experience trip?

 

Reports To: Building Principal

 

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

Chelsea Public Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.