Outdoor Education Program Coordinator

The Outdoor Education Program Coordinator leads the Tribe’s Outdoor Education Program, a culturally grounded program connecting tribal and community members of all ages to the outdoors, the S’Klallam language, and tribal ways of knowing. The program is opening the door to serve students of all ages, engage families, and offer community classes alongside the original after-school programming. This is a program leadership role. The Coordinator oversees a growing team of teachers and program staff who deliver outdoor and cultural learning across multiple age groups and formats, rather than teaching a fixed daily schedule personally, and is responsible for designing, staffing, and evaluating the program’s expansion into family engagement and community classes, in addition to continuing to strengthen the existing K–3 after-school program and the separate before-school program. The Coordinator works under the guidance of the Director of the PGST Department of Education. An ideal candidate brings program development and management experience, supervisory experience, grant management experience, strong writing skills, and a genuine connection to the cultural arts, history, sciences, and people of the S’Klallam Tribe. This person will build and document program standards, curriculum, staffing structures, and partnership agreements across all program strands, and will work collaboratively with school district staff, Tribal departments, families, and the Education Director to position the program for sustainable, long-term growth. **Program Leadership &Strategic Expansion** - Lead the program’s transition from a grade-limited, grant-funded pilot to a Tribally funded program serving all ages and develop a multi-year growth strategy reflecting that expanded mandate. - Develop and maintain a multi-year program growth strategy, including infrastructure assessment, partnership development, and a roadmap for expanding program offerings, age groups served, and enrollment. - Lead planning and implementation of new program offerings, including family engagement programming, community classes, and the new before-school program (see below), in alignment with the Department of Education’s priorities and available funding. - Research, draft, and collaborate with the Tribe on expansion opportunities, including new curriculum, compacts, handbooks, and other school-based literature. - Identify and pursue new and renewed funding sources to support program growth and sustainability, including grant research and grant management. - Track progress against growth targets (e.g., enrollment across age groups, program offerings, funding diversification) and report regularly to the Education Director. **Before-School Program Development & Oversight** - Design the before-school program model, including schedule, staffing structure, curriculum approach, eligibility, and enrollment process, for approval by the Education Director. - Develop staffing needs, job descriptions, and training plans for before-school program staff, and lead recruitment and onboarding. - Oversee day-to-day before-school program operations through assigned staff; the Coordinator is not expected to staff the before-school program directly on an ongoing basis, but will provide oversight, coaching, and quality assurance. - Establish safety procedures, supervision ratios, and a check-in/check-out process appropriate for a before-school setting. - Build relationships with families and the district school to coordinate before-school logistics (e.g., drop-off timing, transitions into the school day). - Set measurable outcomes for the before-school program (e.g., enrollment, attendance, family satisfaction) and monitor performance using the program’s evaluation systems. **After-School Outdoor Education (K-3)** - Oversee the continued delivery of outdoor and cultural after-school programming for K–3 students through co-teachers and assistant teachers, ensuring consistent quality and cultural groundi…