Outdoor Instructor Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Responsive recruiter
Sept -Nov with potential to return for Mar -June season.
https://www.coyleoutside.com/join-our-team
This position is for:

• Flexible and internally motivated individuals with strong work ethic
• Available for seasonal work
• Individuals interested in approaching work with youth through Character Development
• Those with the ability to work well in a team environment and support larger systems while performing creatively at individual assignments.
• Candidates who are oriented toward service, making a difference, commitment and a capacity to make sacrifices for a greater cause. We consider it truly a privilege to do this particular work that the state and Oregon state voters founded.

Requirements:

• 1+ year experience teaching outdoor skills OR
• 1+ year experience conventional teaching with personal/other significant related outdoor skills experience

Coyle Outside is a 'Mobile' Provider for Outdoor School programs in the state of Oregon. These 3-5-day programs have us providing outdoor experiential education to public school students throughout Oregon. This position is both for candidates who are based near/in the Benton County Oregon area who can work locally OR also have the ability to travel. Fall 2026 Programs are predominately non-residential (multiple day-based field trip style - hours are typically 7:30 am - 3:30 pm).
Team members commute to or drive to and camp at program sites (typically amazing outdoor parks or camps) the day prior to program start to scout and prep the site and set up our lodging/camp with the ODS team. Programming involves Inquiry based teaching of outdoor skills lessons that we specialize in including Chemistry thru Fire Building, Habitat thru Shelter Building, Botany/Flora thru Foraging, Geography thru Navigation/Orienteering, Fauna thru Tracking, Woody Plants thru Wood craft, Fishing, Archery, Physics thru Traps, Naturalist Study through Observation/Interpretation etc. Other duties include physical set up and break down of lesson sites, pre briefing and de briefing, coordination and support of other assignments and logistics support.
This seasonal position can likely be supplemented with Fall, Spring and Summer full-time work (inquire upon interview). There are one-week trainings that occur in Corvallis prior to each season. We have a strong team culture and commitment to our mission, which is "The Preservation and Restoration of Outdoor Childhood".
The ideal candidate for this work

• has experience working in teams
• shares our organization's culture and mission to prioritize childhood
• experience/competency in 2 or more of the content areas we cover (foraging, fire, tracking, shelter, cordage/knots, knife work, traps, navigation etc.)
• experience teaching and working outdoors
• is healthy and fit and can work outdoors in poor weather for extended periods
• positive and solution focused

Most of our instructor team has life experience working in the outdoors and teaching/mentoring. Instructors are generally highly self-sufficient and comfortable problem solving unpredictable or unforeseen work events.
Compensation: $29.00 per hour
Adventure, Discovery, Inspiration First
We don't put safety first at Coyle Outside. That is said with trepidation as it seems our culture, especially around kids, increasingly values safety above all else sometimes. That leaves things like good judgement, relationship, trust, connection to come AFTER. What we see is that the world kids grow up in is increasingly sanitized of adversity and opportunities to experience failure/victory and to experience themselves as potential difference makers. We believe there is a distinction between discovery and 'learning' and that discovery changes a person forever. We believe that wisdom (as well as a beautiful, rich life) comes through failures, taking risks and from entering and passing through what is scary and uncomfortable.
Work With Us
To work here we want you to be up to something in life. We are looking for instructors who feel the need to make a difference as much as the need to have a paycheck. Our instructor team is expected to develop themselves as guides and mentors for our participants while also developing strong working relationships with co instructors that build a strong culture and keep standards high.
Many, if not most, of our programs have been the brainchild of or inspired by the initiative and talent of individual instructors whether that be our fishing and archery camps or our expansion to new states. Our instructors are self sufficient, autonomous and adventurous OR they are committed to developing themselves in these ways. The work is challenging and rewarding and instructors are at the same time highly independent and part of a larger culture.
We provide training in instruction approach, group and behavior management and technical outdoor skills. Our instructors work largely autonomously and with limited supervision and are confident and ready to be responsible. All instructors are on a first name basis with the founder/owner.
Year round we are looking for unique people who are ready to both stretch themselves and contribute to something larger

• Make a difference for youth and impact their experience of themselves and what is possible for the future of their world
• Commit to and explore the power of nature based experiential education
• Challenge and develop your own personal and professional sense of adventure and self sufficiency/autonomy
• Develop your own outdoor skills competency and/or use your developed passion/skills in an instructional role