Employment and Career Opportunities

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

National Capital Commission - Manager, Outdoor Activities - Chelsea, Quebec - Full Time - Indeterminate

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Visitor Experience, the Manager, Outdoor Activities will lead a team and be responsible for planning and implementing orientations for recreational activities and other public participation programs that are respectful to the environment, for Gatineau Park and the Quebec Urban Lands.

Job Link - Manager, Outdoor Activities

BC Parks - Recreation Section Head - Regular Full Time Opportunity

The Section Head, Recreation has full responsibility for the design and development of strategies - both short and long term - to deliver BC Parks’ recreation goals in a region. The position analyzes park management plan recommendations and develops recreation objectives that can be achieved within a short and medium time frame. The position has full responsibility for determining how capital investments in recreation facilities can help BC Parks meet its strategic recreation goals, both regionally and provincially. The position seeks input from regional staff when developing both short term and long term capital investment strategies that meet BC Parks’ recreation goals. The position develops and prioritizes capital investment proposals for regional review and support, program review and support, and final executive approval.

Job Link - Recreation Section Head

Summer 2023 - Fort St. James District - Summer Recreation Program

Summer Recreation Day Camp Leader

The Summer Recreation Day Camp Leader is responsible for facilitating the summer recreation program day camp. Day camp leaders will work with the team leader to organize and implement daily camp activities throughout the 2023 summer.

Summer Day Camp Leader

Summer Recreation Day Camp Team Leader

The Summer Recreation Team leader is responsible for planning and implementing the District of Fort St. James’ summer recreation Day camp program. The Team leader will research camp activities, operate within the recreation budget, and provide leadership support to three Day camp leaders

Summer Day Camp Team Leader

Summer 2023 Westcoast Connection Positions

WANT TO BE A BETTER EDUCATOR? WANT THE MOST INCREDIBLE SUMMER JOB OF YOUR LIFE? Westcoast Connection is hiring staff for summer 2023! Speaking from experience, there is no better way to spend your summer! Apply online at https://www.westcoastconnection.com/about/jobs/current-opportunities/ and send me a message with any questions! #opportunity #summer #travel

Program Director 2023

Program Leader 2023

Summer 2023 - City of Burnaby - Parks, Recreation and Culture

Recreation Instructor (Biking) - Two Positions

Our Parks, Recreation and Culture Department are looking for Contract Biking Instructors to work out of Mountain Air Bike Skills Park to lead participants in learning mountain biking skills in a safe and enjoyable environment. If you’re passionate about mountain biking and teaching, this is a fantastic opportunity to share your knowledge in the great outdoors!

City of Burnaby - Recreation Instructor (Biking)

Recreation Instructor (Canoe) - Two Positions

Our Parks, Recreation and Culture Department is looking for Contract Canoe Instructors to provide lessons to children and adults. Canoe Instructors ensure participants learn canoeing in a safe and enjoyable environment while planning creative and fun lessons that incorporate specific canoeing skills. The canoe program operates out of Deer Lake. Programs include group and semi-private lessons and guided tours for youth and adult participants as well as day camps and school out trips for children.

City of Burnaby - Recreation Instructor (Canoe)

May 2023 Wild Water Adventures - Base Manager, Sales Reservations and Driver-Trip Photographer

Wild Water Adventures is seeking Customer Service Base Managers and Sales Reservations
staff for the upcoming 2023 rafting season. Our daily trips take place on the world famous
Kicking Horse River where you will be expected to provide exceptional service to our guests
on all our Rafting Day Trips.
Wild Waters Base Manager/Sales Reservations

Wild Water Adventures is seeking Class 2 Bus Drivers for the upcoming 2023 rafting season.
Our daily trips take place on the world-famous Kicking Horse River where you will be
expected to provide exceptional service to our guests on all our Rafting Day Trips
Wild Waters Driver-Trip Photographer

April 2021 Currently Seeking - 2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow in Recreation Ecology

We are looking for a two-year postdoctoral fellow to lead phase 2 of the Recreation Ecology in Yellowstone to Yukon project. This is a joint position between UNBC and Y2Y and will be based primarily in Canmore, AB with time spent also at the UNBC campus. Read more about it here: UNBC Y2Y PDF Job Ad 2021

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