Camp Wa-Ya, a nomadic outdoor summer camp based in Olympia, WA, offers Day Camp and Adventure Camp (overnight trips) programs that intertwine outdoor adventure, science education, Indigenous knowledge, and fun!

We are hiring Lead & Assistant Adventure Camp (Overnight Trips) Instructors.  Summer staff are needed from June 9th until August 28th and work Monday-Friday (no weekends!).  Compensation is $690-770/week + $100/night for trips.

Don't want to work overnight?  We are also hiring Lead & Assistant Day Camp Instructors and Substitute Instructors.

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Lead Adventure Camp Instructors are responsible, with the support of an Assistant Adventure Camp Instructor, for supervising and leading campers our trips, which range from one night of car camping to 4-day, 3-night backpacking and kayaking trips.  As part of pre-camp training, Instructors are given a week of intensive overnight sea kayaking and backpacking training.  Instructors provide kayak/backpacking instruction, manage risk, teach lessons, run activities, organize games, and monitor the health and safety of their group of 10-13 campers, ages 9-16.

Wa-Ya runs a 10-week summer camp program with Day Camp offerings for ages 6-13 and Adventure Camp trips for ages 9-16.  Camp Wa-Ya staff and campers spend most of their day outdoors, engaged in regular activity.  Our programs include hiking, kayaking, and outdoor skills, and Instructors should be prepared to work outside in any weather.  We visit sites in and around Olympia and Instructors are responsible for transporting campers in 12- and 15-passenger vans.  All Wa-Ya staff engage in a culturally integrated environment, where Wa-Ya’s values of respect, diversity, equity, and inclusion are practiced.