Waskowitz Outdoor Education Center

North Bend

Waskowitz is an Outdoor Education Center that is operated by Highline School District. We serve thousands of students each year in our overnight, Outdoor School program, as well as day programs. Our goal is to provide nature-centered and student-centered programming to all students, and to encourage the discovery of the diversity of people and place. We have the amazing opportunity to connect people to each other, and to our beautiful valley!

Residential Outdoor Educator

$20.30-$22.64/hour

(+$2.00/hour for specific degree holders, see job description for more info)

Full-Time Position

SUMMARY: This Residential Outdoor Educator will provide supervision and support for all Waskowitz programs including, but not limited to, Outdoor School, Living History, Reconnecting Ourselves Outdoors to Succeed (ROOTS), Challenge Facilitation, Waskowitz Environmental Leadership & Service (WELS) and. Responsibilities include dining hall supervision, trail and hiking logistics, maintaining records, facilitating student-centered curriculum, promoting student growth, and monitoring the student’s safety and well-being while in the district’s care. The Outdoor Educator will be assigned a focus area during outdoor school: Science/Environmental Education Curriculum and Instruction or High School Leadership and Instruction. The OE assigned to HS Leadership and Instruction resides in the dormitories during overnight programs. Each program has a different set of weekly hours. When not running program, this is a 6 hour a day position. Additional hours will be added during outdoor school and other programs as needed.

Benefits include:

Medical/Dental/Vision 

Employee Assistance Program

Paid Time Off Holidays

Ongoing Training 

Professional Learning Retirement

Job Posted 7/10/2023