Eagle View Ranch - Day Ride Instructor
Job Description
Wrangler
Requirements:
- Minimum age 19
- Extensive experience with Western Horseback Riding
- Wilderness First Aid Certification (we offer certification May 21 and 22, 2020)
- CPR Certification
- Some rodeo experience(preferred)
Responsibilities Include:
- Daily care of 14 horses (feeding, watering, rotating, health checking)
- Ensuring safety of students and horses through appropriate Risk Management
- Matching students with proper horses
- Teaching tacking and grooming to all students
- Teaching ground school
- Teaching basic western riding skills to all students in the arena
- Assessing if students are able to go on trail ride (safety)
- Leading trail rides in the National Forest for all students
- Documenting all National Forest rides at end of each day
- Maintaining clean corrals/paddocks/tack room
- Upkeep and maintenance of all tack and gear
- Teaching Advanced riding skills when suitable
- Other duties as assigned
- Base maintenance projects
- Help with airport runs, kid wrangling on inbrief/debrief days, facilitate cowboy contest
- Put up hay for the next summer(even if it falls on your days off)
SOAR is a private, non-profit outdoor adventure program for youth with Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders. Our students range in age from 11-18 and are all diagnosed with LD and/or ADHD. Most are high functioning, very intelligent, and struggle with issues such as impulsivity, disorganization, inattention, poor social skills, etc. Some student may occasionally come with additional diagnoses such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or Aspergers/High Functioning
