Kroka Expeditions

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Hiring:

We welcome the best outdoor educators from around the world to join our incredibly talented and hard-working team. Kroka’s wilderness leaders envision, design and execute programs that have consistent life-changing impacts on children and youth. Wilderness Leaders will facilitate wilderness expeditions and farm-based programs for highly motivated students ages 9-19 including:

• Multi-element programs including farming, adventure, sustainability and wild-crafting skills

• Ocean canoe expeditions

• Moving-water canoe trips

• Backpacking trips

• Farm-based programs

• Rock climbing and canoeing day trips

• Scheduled weeks alternate between expedition/program teaching and base-camp support including farm work, kitchen work, driving, and facilities maintenance.

Qualifications:

• Love of teaching and mentoring children and youth: you enjoy working with a wide range of ages, with documented and referenced previous teaching experience.

• Previous wilderness expedition experience in remote environments, or an excitement to learn!

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: demonstrated cultural competence and ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

• Adventure sports expertise in one of Kroka’s adventure sports such as whitewater paddling, rock climbing, caving, mountaineering, back-country skiing, mountain biking, surfing, or another adventure sport with similar set of skills.

• Commitment to personal fitness: working at Kroka is physically demanding and requires a high level of fitness and excellent work ethic. You will be expected to wake early for shared work on the farm and participate joyously in the strenuous work of living close to the land. You will cook meals over the fire, lift canoes, set climbs on mountainsides and navigate challenging overland routes.

• Commitment to ecologically conscious living and simplified personal needs. Experience living and working in a community.

• Professional certifications and education College degree and/or equivalent life experience, and Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Certification.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation at Kroka is based on experience and meets or exceeds that of other guides in the outdoor education industry. All new staff start as Assistant Leaders with the possibility for promotion after the first season and/or assessment. Additional benefits include:

• Room & board: simple and beautiful Kroka Village housing, and meals while you are on campus or traveling for Kroka

• Extensive training opportunities in adventure sports and wilderness skills

• One week paid vacation in-between seasons

• Pro-purchase on personal equipment & extensive equipment library for personal expeditions

• Being part of a forward thinking and energetic community that is deeply engaged in making a positive difference in the world

Additional Information About Kroka Expeditions

Kroka Expeditions is a non-profit wilderness expedition school and organic farm that fosters a living relationship with the natural world and the development of skilled, compassionate, and community-minded young people.

Working with youth ages 9 to 19, Kroka provides unique wilderness programs centered around the cultivation of consciousness and altruistic will. The container of multi-day expeditions traveling through wild places is one that pushes us as human beings to experience vulnerability and reliance on community (both human and non-human). In return, we are rewarded with humility, compassion, elation, a sense of reverence for the natural world, and a deep feeling of belonging.

Grounded on 120 beautiful acres of forest, wetland, and farmland in Marlow, NH, the Kroka Village has grown over the years to become an intentional community of residential staff, a biodynamic farm, and a basecamp that supports the magic of learning and growth to happen. Offering 8-weeks of summer programs, spring and fall programs for school groups, and two semester programs, the Kroka Village is a bustling place!