YEAR-ROUND POSITIONS
We are a small, dedicated, year-round staff. We occasionally have openings as we continue to grow. Join our mailing list and check back to this page to stay up-to-date about current openings.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR 2024 SEASONAL POSITIONS
LEAP offers multi-day whitewater kayaking programs each summer on the Lower Salmon River in Idaho and Lower Deschutes River in Oregon for groups of youth and adults who are supported in on-going services with our partner communities (please read about the groups we work with).
We hire and cultivate a positive, engaged, and supportive team of 6-8 guides each summer to facilitate our programs. Each week there are 10-20 participants and 1-5 specialized staff from our partner organizations who join our team on the river. Our guides have the opportunity and responsibility to lead, teach, and support participants in their whitewater experience, as well as in camp. When participants come to the river for a LEAP experience, they are most often stepping way out of their comfort zone and choosing to challenge their personal edges physically, socially, and introspectively. Our guide team has the honor and responsibility to care for that experience on and off the water for each individual and group.
We strive for our guide team to strike the essential balance between technical river and wilderness skills, leadership, risk management and problem solving, and human empathy, sensitivity, curiosity, and engagement.
“I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything. I grew a lot as a person, I now am more self aware and open to letting strangers into my life. I’ve also learned to embrace people that are different than me because similarity is not always what is important in relationships. This program is like no other. If anyone is considering going, just go. It’ll never be something that I will forget and I would came back every day if I could.
Thank you to LEAP for making this a possibility for me and the others on my group. Especially to the guides on the water who were amazing at keeping us safe, excited, focused, and fed. I loved this trip and the work that LEAP does for many different groups of people out there.”
