Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Wilderness River Trainer

We are looking for an experienced wilderness river runner who understands the concept of adventure based therapy to train our staff in concepts related to Outward Bound's philosophies of experiential education. You would also be training them in rescue techniques and wilderness first aid as well.
The job would involve (paid) travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and further travel to the NW provinces of Steung Treng and Ratanak Kiri to run a total of 3 remote rivers with Korsang staff for on the river training.
We will be doing very remote rivers - Tonle San, Tonle Srae Pok and Tonle Kong in NW Cambodia. There are unexploded bombs, land mines, vipers, cobras and tigers and leopards up there! So if you're not up for this type of experience, please don't apply.
The rivers here vary greatly due to the dry season vs the monsoon. In lower water (Dec-May) there are some exposed rocks and class II rapids as well as one portage on the Pok, in high water the portage is runnable and the rest is just a mellow float. All 3 rivers empty into the Mekong at Steung Treng.
The rivers are anywhere from 30-100 feet wide. So nothing technical except surviving the wild life and mines!
You will be training our staff to prepare to run trips of up to 12 people on methadone and in early recovery from drug addiction for between 7 and 14 days each, we will run 4 trips the first year.
This contract would be for up to 2 months and include travel expenses and a stipend of up to $2000.00.
Start date could be as early as November 2008 and as late as Feb. 2009.
Our staff is a combination of Cambodian Americans and ethnic Khmers. No language issues as most are bi-lingual.