Overview
Kroka’s wilderness leaders envision, design and execute programs that have consistent life-changing impacts on children and youth. They facilitate wilderness expeditions and farm-based programs for highly motivated students ages 9-19. They are visionaries, risk-takers, and role models. They are committed to mastery of their skills and to awakening consciousness and altruistic will in young people.
Qualifications:
Love of teaching and mentoring children and youth: with documented and referenced previous teaching experience.
Previous wilderness expedition experience in remote environments.
Professional certifications and education College degree and/or equivalent life experience, and Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Certification. Commitment to personal fitness: working at Kroka is physically demanding.
Required Skills:
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.
Preferred Skills:
Personal artistic skills: strong singing voice, handwork skills, visual and/or performing arts experience.International/cultural diversity: experience living, working, and traveling in other countries and cultures.
Waldorf Training: experience and/or training for working with Waldorf schools and schoolchildren
Additional Certifications: AMGA SPI, ACA Swiftwater Rescue, Wilderness EMT, etc.
About Kroka Expeditions
Kroka Expeditions is a non-profit wilderness expedition school based on a year-round, organic farm in Marlow, New Hampshire. We believe that consciousness and altruism can be brought forward through a living relationship with the natural world, and by taking our places within the circle of community.
