Summer Camp Seasonal Nature & Discovery Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

The Nature & Discovery Specialist is responsible for creating safe, age-appropriate, adaptive programming that is focused on STEM based outdoor education for campers aged 8-17 years old. This staff member will create dynamic and detailed lesson plans, and will be responsible for supervising volunteers each session. They will also lead the Outpost program, an adventure based overnight camping experience for teens.

Team Overview:

The Program Team brings the camp experience to life by creating programs, building community and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all camp participants. The team creates accessible and developmentally appropriate programs and recruits, processes, and supports a large team of volunteers and seasonal staff. In adherence with laws and camp governing bodies; they develop, plan and implement camp emergency procedures and policies.

Responsibilities:

• Attend Seasonal Staff Training (May 18-29, 2026)
• Design and implement educationally-driven programming for Nature & Discovery, outpost camping, and other program areas
• Modify and adapt activities in response to weather and to meet medical, psychosocial, accessibility, and other camper needs to ensure an inclusive experience
• Enforce safety regulations in nature & discovery areas and promote Leave No Trace principles
• Ensure that all supplies are safely stored and maintained
• Collaborate with supervisor in the preparation, purchase order, and record-keeping of inventory of supplies in assigned areas
• Support, lead, and evaluate Nature & Discovery volunteers
• Submit weekly Nature & Discovery plans to supervisor
• Assist the Cabin Life team with maintaining appropriate supervision of campers, including providing overnight coverage in cabins as needed

Required Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Ability to move across camp grounds and between buildings and activity areas multiple times each day
• Ability to coordinate a multi-faceted program for campers aged 8-17 years with varying physical and developmental abilities
• Ability to create an outcomes-based curriculum for assigned program area
• Responsible for the safety and supervision of all participants in their care
• Ability to live on site
• Ability to support with program set up and tear down (including movement of materials up to 50 lbs.)

Preferred Skills, Qualifications & Experience

• Experience with fundamentals of outdoor education (i.e. ecological, zoological, and biological concepts)
• Experience leading backpacking, canoeing, and/or outpost camping trips (preferred)
• Background in sustainability or environmental education (preferred)

Expectations & Requirements for all Flying Horse Farms Staff

We live our Values. We are each responsible for knowing our values and nurturing our culture:

• We are All In. We demonstrate a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done, we are supportive and loyal, show up present and ready and we are passionate about "Campers First."
• We have an Attitude of Optimism. We find what is working and make more of that happen, demonstrate adaptability within ambiguity, spread joy and hope and ensure everyone we interact with feels "Welcomed Home."
• We are Trustworthy. We are consistent, dependable, steady, truthful and operate with transparency, take ownership for our work and "See the Best" in others.
• We Take Initiative. We are driven, work towards goals with fortitude, pay attention to details and find innovative solutions with "Fearless is Free" attitudes.