Educational Coordinator

We are looking for a talented outdoor educator to work with us this season teaching students and adults about the environment and local history. This position starts in March and runs until Thanksgiving with the option to stay on for the winter season. The pay starts $16/hour and includes housing and some meals.

As a crew member you would assist with safe vessel operations, teach students and members of the public, and help to maintain our historic ships. Crew members on the Lady Maryland, Sigsbee, and Mildred Belle provide high quality, safe, and hands-on experiences for all who board these historic vessels.

This season we are running day trips and overnight programs with students as well as some private charters for adults.

This season we anticipate running day trips with students, evening private charters, some weekend programs, and some 3- to-6-day overnight sailing/camping and live-aboard trips. During the summer we are offering 3- and 5-day overnight extended programs and a few day trips.

Our educational day trips are typically 3-5 hours long and serve up to 30 students per day. We serve grades 4 and above, but mainly see 4-8th graders. Our E-STEM programs are designed to introduce students to the environmental and ecological significance of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Among the many activities onboard, students learn about water quality, oysters, estuarine ecology, navigation, weather, plankton and the economics and history of the Bay. Each boat trawls for fish and occasionally dredges for oysters. Our history-based programs are run in conjunction with the National Parks Service at Fort McHenry and focus on the Battle of Baltimore and the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Region.

Each crew member is an active participant in all programming and is expected to teach every day.

Most of our programming this season will be in Baltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River. Lady Maryland, Sigsbee, and Mildred Belle will be running day trips from Baltimore in the spring and early fall. However, we expect to offer programs in Philadelphia aboard Sigsbee and in Washington, DC and Southern Maryland aboard Mildred Belle. Mildred Belle will spend 4-6 weeks in Washington, DC during the summer and 4-6 weeks in Washington, DC in September/October. In October, we hope to send Sigsbee to Philadelphia for 1-2 weeks and then to the schooner Sultana’s Downrigging Weekend festival in Chestertown, MD.

For a few weeks during the season, each of our vessels will go into dry-dock for sanding, painting, caulking, etc. This is dirty and physically challenging work.

Check out the links below for the full job postings and pictures. Pay starts at $16/hour plus housing and some meals.

Job Descriptions:

https://padlet.com/MaritimeEducation/joinourcrew

What would it be like to work on our historic vessels?

https://padlet.com/MaritimeEducation/adayinthelife