The Science School program includes a full-time Director of EE, four Assistant Coordinators, and 8-10 seasonal Instructors each season. Seasonal Instructors facilitate a wide range of environmental, outdoor and experiential education programs, including lake ecology, herpetology, canoeing, team building, the climbing wall and challenge course.

Instructors will spend the majority of their time teaching, but also assist in program development/updates, outreach, animal husbandry/training (with raptors, reptiles and amphibians), and materials/area maintenance.

Staff that come to 4-HSS are able to gain a lot of experience for their resume: team building facilitation, belaying, canoe instruction, science-based teaching, live animal husbandry for an extensive collection of native and non-native species, Red Cross lifeguard certification (summer season), Alabama boating license (with reimbursement), and the list goes on and on!

Those who are flexible, genuinely enjoy working with children, and want to better themselves for the future will thrive at 4-HSS. An ideal applicant has high-energy and is attentive, honest, hardworking, positive, outgoing, thorough in their work, and able to communicate when they are unsure.

Applicants must have a college degree in education, environmental education, outdoor education natural science, recreation or an outdoor-related field, the ability to pass a criminal background check, and 1-2 season's previous experience in the field is preferred.