Environmental Educator / Assistant Naturalist

Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES is hiring a full-time Environmental Educator/Assistant Naturalist in Yorktown Heights, NY. The role involves creating and leading environmental education programs for K-12 students, including classroom lessons and field trips. Responsibilities also include designing an outdoor summer camp and assisting with team-building activities. A degree is not required for this position.
Putnam|Northern Westchester BOCES anticipates a full-time vacancy for an Environmental Educator/Assistant Naturalist with the Center for Environmental Education (CEE) to support CEE's nonresidential environmental education program. An environmental educator/assistant naturalist creates, develops, and leads instructional programs concerning nature, conservation and/or the environment, often with live animals and/or animal artifacts to a mainly public-school student audience. Most programs are 45 to 60-minute classroom programs at the school designed for students grades K through 12, and we also offer an expanding selection of on-campus field trips. Additionally, in the fall and spring, campus-based day-long Challenge Course programs and in-school team building are very popular. In addition to school programming support, assistant naturalists design and lead an outdoor-based Young Naturalist summer camp and assis...