Overview
The Assistant Director of Field Studies is responsible for supporting the design and implementation of K-12 Field Studies year-round programming informed by the school’s mission and educational philosophy. The field studies curriculum heavily integrates with the classroom curriculum and enhances the Sequoyah experience as students are intentionally led towards increasing levels of responsibility, self-reliance, relationship skills, and an understanding of our world.
Sequoyah’s Field Studies program begins in kindergarten and continues through 12th grade, ranging from three to fifteen-day trips. We seek candidates who are committed to using the outdoors as a medium for teaching critical thinking and life skills.
This position involves a significant amount of time leading students in the field as well as the administration of other trips and development of the program on campus and reports to the Director of Field Studies.
Qualifications:
Co-design, staff, and direct the school year program, encompassing roughly 24 overnight trips annually, including acting as trip leader on 8-10 of these trips
Facilitate and support the many logistics involved in running overnight trips, including food orders and packout, vehicle safety, itinerary development, land agency outreach, permitting, instructor hiring, and clean-up
Help transport students in 10-passenger vans or a cargo van
Regularly review and develop curricular integration, risk man
Required Skills:
-35+ years of experience organizing and leading outdoor education trips with youth, or equivalent transferable experience
-Technical proficiency in backpacking and camping
-Current Wilderness First Responder (WFR) certification, or willingness to complete and maintain this certification
-Enthusiasm for spending around 40 to 50 days in the field annually with youth and parents
-Strong risk management experience in a field and wilderness context
-Ability and desire to live in the Pasadena or Los Angeles area
Preferred Skills:
-Prior experience designing curriculum for outdoor education programs and/or classroom experiential learning teaching experience
-Additional technical proficiencies in rock climbing, flat water kayaking and canoeing, etc
-Additional valid certifications such as: AMGA SPI, LNT Master Educator, WEMT, ACA or BCU Paddling
-Bachelor’s degree
About Sequoyah School
The Sequoyah School Field Studies program offers two trips per year for all grades K-12, as well as a new summer program, and is a required co-curricular aspect of the Sequoyah School education. The field studies curriculum heavily integrates with the classroom curriculum and enhances the Sequoyah experience as students are intentionally led towards increasing levels of responsibility, self-reliance, leadership, and an understanding of our world.
