Employer: NOLS
Email Address: field_faculty_development@nols.edu
Website: https://www.nols.edu
Position Title: Expedition Sailing Instructor
Compensation/Rate: $122-225/day
Location: Baja California Sur, Mexico
Position Summary:
NOLS is a multifaceted, global wilderness school that supports thousands of students each year who seek to develop the skills and experience to reach their potential as leaders in wilderness skills, risk management, wilderness medicine, and leadership. Our Mexico sailing program uses Drascombe Longboats to sail, row, and motor along the Gulf of California of Baja California Sur and camp on its incredible beaches. Sailing instructors on these expeditions teach sailing skills, vessel maintenance and repair, motor use, coastal navigation, leadership, environmental studies, first aid, outdoor living skills, Leave No Trace principles, and more. Instructors create and maintain an inclusive learning environment, build excellent rapport with students and co-workers, support student learning and growth, invest in their professional development as educators, and manage risk appropriately. A NOLS instructor is an educator who is invested in the student experience and passionate about facilitating transformative educational experiences.
NOLS hires new expedition instructors through a training process called an Instructor Course (IC). We will host a Baja Sailing IC from Jan 5-30, 2025. Applications are due Sept 13, 2024 and interviews will be Sept 30-Oct 3, 2024. Sail IC candidates who are accepted and successfully complete this course are considered ready to hire as a NOLS expedition instructor on a contractual basis.
Sailing instruction work is flexible - our Mexico sail instructors typically work 2-16 weeks on sailing expeditions/year (full travel paid) and instructors can go up to 3 years between trips and still be considered active. For most of our instructors, NOLS is a fun, exciting addition to other work. For those looking to work more weeks at NOLS, we have in-town, benefitted positions and offer free training pathways to current instructors for moving into other expedition skills like keelboat sailing, sea kayaking, mountaineering, rock climbing, and more. This IC is also excellent training for honing personal and instructional skills for sailing, wilderness living, environmental studies, leadership, and risk management that many instructors use to further their careers at other organizations.
More information on the Baja Sailing Instructor Course can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/BajaSailIC
Please note that there are ample need-based scholarships to cover training tuition.
More information on the hiring process and working at NOLS can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/SAILIC
For other questions, please email Jesi at field_faculty_development@nols.edu