Employment and Career Opportunities

Wuikinuxv Nation - Summer Recreation Coordinator

Position: Summer Recreation Coordinator
Location: Rivers Inlet, BC, Wuikinuxv Nation
Duration: April 28, 2025-August 30, 2025
Compensation: $30/hour, travel to Rivers Inlet and accommodation are included.
Eligibility: Open to students enrolled in post-secondary programs, particularly those studying recreation management, community development, or related fields.

The Summer Recreation Coordinator will be responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing a range of recreational activities for the community, specifically our children and youth who live in the community and return home for the summer. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with a vibrant Indigenous community, gain hands-on experience in program coordination, and help create a positive and engaging summer for participants of all ages.

Those interested in applying can email their resume to Crystal Matilpi at education@wuikinuxv.net. The application deadline is March 1, 2025.

Job Description: Summer Recreation Coordinator

Government of Alberta - Junior Forest Rangers

We are currently recruiting Crew Leaders for the 2025 season (JFR Crew Leaders and Sub Leaders Job Details | Government of Alberta).

The JFR program is an incredible summer employment opportunity for post-secondary students and graduates. We have up to nine crews stationed in the ten different forest areas across Alberta each year, consisting of a Crew Leader and Sub Leader (post-secondary students or graduates), as well as six Crew Members (high school students). Our crews live on an Alberta Wildfire base and take part in a wide variety of hands-on work projects and educational opportunities, such as tree planting, trail building, shadowing a Fish and Wildlife Officer, stream assessments, outdoor recreation, and wildfire education.

Job Link - JFR Crew Leaders and Sub Leaders Job Details | Government of Alberta.

JUMP! Foundation - Program Director

JUMP! is seeking a dynamic, experienced, and visionary Program Director to lead our transformative summer programs in the heart of the British Columbia wilderness. As the Program Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of JUMP! Canada, overseeing all aspects of program operations, from recruitment and training to logistics and participant experience. Your passion for outdoor education and your ability to inspire others will be essential to our continued success.

Job Link - Program Director

JUMP! Foundation - Outdoor Instructor

JUMP! Canada is looking for dynamic, passionate, and hardworking facilitators to deliver transformational, fun, and safe courses for youth at our wilderness site near 100 Mile House, BC.

Job Link - Outdoor Instructor

Windigo - Tour Leaders and Adventure Guides

Are you passionate about the outdoors, adventurous, have strong leadership skills that inspire confidence and, most of all, like to share your knowledge? If you said yes to any of those then, becoming a Windigo Guide is the perfect opportunity for you!

Job Link - Windigo Tour Leader and Adventure Guide

What Can You Do with an ORTM Degree?

The Nature-Based Tourism degree and Wildland Conservation and Recreation Major will prepare you for a fantastic career and an awesome lifestyle in Canada or overseas. Our Faculty and students have worked here in BC, across Canada, and around the world. Conservation, outdoor recreation, and nature-based tourism offer amazingly diverse employment opportunities in pretty cool places. Moreover, these fields are filled with people passionate about the issues they are working on and solutions they are contributing to

Students and graduates work in a variety of sectors including Federal, provincial or state, and municipal governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), quasi-public agencies such as YMCA and Girl Scouts, industry or employee services, arts and culture, events, as well as university or college teaching, and private commercial business operations. Employment in recreation, parks and tourism is as broad and diverse as your interests and passions and fulfills some basic human needs and desires. In addition to non-profits (e.g. Yellowstone to Yukon, WWF) and private businesses (Fairmont Hotels, mountain resorts, etc…) students and alumni have worked with BC Parks, Parks Canada, and various government ministries (e.g. Ministry of Environment, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development; BC Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture). Some job titles include:

Outdoor Instructor, Guide, Educator, Coach (e.g. climbing, biathlon, back-country skiing, fly fishing, mountaineering, cycle)
Bear, whale and other wildlife viewing guide
Sales Manager (e.g. ski hill, zip line, climbing company…)
Recreation Director for a city, town, or private company (e.g. hotel like Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge)
Tourism Destination marketing and communications managers
Economic Development Officer
Nature-based tourism and adventure photographers and filmmakers
Environmental and Experiential Educator
Park Interpreter
Environmental and/or social research consultant
Park Operator
Recreation technician
Park Warden, Area Supervisor