Job Openings Wilderness Guides

About the job Wilderness Guides

  • Lead a variety of wilderness trips during the summer season, including Montreal canoeing, flat-water and white-water canoeing, and hosting groups on site
  • Lead and teach wilderness skills, including canoeing, outdoor cooking, and Leave No Trace camping techniques
  • Actively seek opportunities to engage your campers in conversation, always putting their interests and well-being first
  • Lead open and guided group discussions centered around Bible study, devotions, environmental education, and care for Creation
  • Take responsibility, usually with a co-guide, for the health, safety, and well-being of small groups of teenage campers and adults
  • Act as an encouraging Christ-like role model of compassion for others and care for Creation
  • Assist with various in-camp duties when not on trail
  • Present for the entirety of staff training
  • At least 19 years of age, or at least 18 years of age and having completed one year of post-secondary education.
  • Emotionally prepared for hard work in the service of others
  • Willing to engage in and lead conversations, that are respectful and affirming of all perspectives, about faith and spirituality, the environment, society, challenging experiences, and other such topics, often, but not always, using stories from the Bible as springboards for the conversation. (You do NOT need to be a member of or subscribe to any particular faith or faith-based group to be a staff member at Amnicon. We welcome all perspectives with respect, and expect others to do the same. You do not need to have experience with the Bible, either. We spend time in staff training covering all of the different types of content we use for our discussions.)

  • Organized and self-motivated; able to work without direct supervision or specific daily direction
  • A flexible thinker with demonstrated problem-solving ability
  • Able to work comfortably alone or with others for long periods of time
  • Able to collaborate and work constructively with others to accomplish short- and long-term objectives
  • Able to sustain physical activity for several hours at a time (i.e. paddling, hiking, lifting, etc.)
  • Able to lift and carry 50lbs
  • Excited about working with youth and having a positive impact on their lives
  • Enthusiastic about living and working in the outdoors. (Extensive wilderness/camping experience is not required. Enthusiasm, determination, and positivity are all preferred over previous wilderness experience)
  • Must be able to see, hear, speak, and breathe without the help of another person.
  • Must be able to read, write, and speak fluently in English.
  • Must be able to enter and exit a canoe unassisted.
  • Must be able to swim unassisted, and without the use of a floatation device
  • Must be able to move, without the help of another person, over significantly challenging wilderness terrain, i.e. rocky trails, thick brush, up and down steep walkable inclines, river beds with water up to 18 deep, etc.
  • Must be able to bend at the waist, kneel, squat, sit on the ground and return to a standing postion without assistance from another person.