Employment and Career Opportunities
April 2021 Currently Seeking - 2 Year Postdoctoral Fellow in Recreation Ecology

What Can You Do With an ORTM Degree?
The Nature-Based Tourism degree and Wildland Conservation and Recreation Major will prepare you for a fantastic career and an awesome lifestyle in Canada or overseas. Our Faculty and students have worked here in BC, across Canada, and around the world. Conservation, outdoor recreation, and nature-based tourism offer amazingly diverse employment opportunities in pretty cool places. Moreover, these fields are filled with people passionate about the issues they are working on and solutions they are contributing to
- Outdoor Instructor, Guide, Educator, Coach (e.g. climbing, biathlon, backcountry skiing, fly fishing, mountaineering, cycle)
- Bear, whale and other wildlife viewing guide
- Sales Manager (e.g. ski hill, zip line, climbing company…)
- Recreation Director for a city, town, or private company (e.g. hotel like Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge)
- Tourism Destination marketing and communications managers
- Economic Development Officer
- Nature-based tourism and adventure photographers and filmmakers
- Environmental and Experiential Educator
- Park Interpreter
- Environmental and/or social research consultant
- Park Operator
- Recreation technician
- Park Warden, Area Supervisor
2021 Job Listings
- Pacific Adventure Learning -- Ropes Course Manager
- Bowron Lake Provincial Park -- 5 positions
- HUB Cyling -- Bike Education Instructors -- www.bikehub.ca/jobs/BikeEducationInstructor
- Jericho Beach Kayak School -- various positions -- https://jerichobeachkayak.com/about-us/jobs/
Past and Potential Employers and Job Search Links
Tourism /Adventure Businesses
Canadian Outback Adventures and Events
Job Search Links
Canadian Search Sites
WorkCabin.ca
BC Government Jobs
Canadian Government Jobs
CUSO
Go2: The resource for people in tourism
Guest Ranches in BC
Hospitality Careers
Ontario Government Jobs
Public Service Commission of Canada
Tourism BC Jobs
US Search Sites
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
American Zoological and Aquarium Association
Coolworks
Outdoor Education
U.S. National Park Service Careers
International Search Sites
Jobs & Careers in Outdoor, Environmental & Adventure Education