Wild Seeds Facilitator/Educator

Wild Seeds ALC Facilitator Job Ad:

The Dandelion Project is looking for creative, passionate people who are excited about building community with young people and supporting their learning and growth. We are hiring a full-time facilitator for our day-time unschooling program, Wild Seeds Agile Learning Community. Applicants should be excited about actively creating a new kind of learning space that centers self-directed learning practices embedded within a supportive and nourishing community. Facilitator applicants should also be excited to bring their passions to young people by facilitating daily offerings and long-term projects based on their skills and the interests of the community. Wild Seeds ALC meets Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays with an administrative work day for facilitators on Wednesdays.

• BIPOC applicants are especially encouraged to apply.**

Working at Wild Seeds ALC will fill you up if:

You are a passionate, curious, and joyful person with a variety of interests and abilities that you would enjoy sharing with young people.

You have experience cultivating authentic, respectful, and partnership-based relationships with people of all ages.

You are interested in interrogating systems of power— how they show up in the world, in yourself and in community with young people.

You are rethinking what most of us are taught about how and where learning happens, what learning is valuable, how learning is evaluated, and how to relate with and support young people in group settings. You are eager to partner with others in rejecting narrow, authoritarian views of how adults facilitate learning.

You are invested in and experienced with collaboration, believe you have much to share and learn from other facilitators, and are willing to sacrifice personal power and control to include more perspectives. You see sharing and receiving feedback from other facilitators as an opportunity for personal growth.

We are looking for people with experience in some combination of the following:

• Working with young people in schools or alternative settings
• Community Organizing
• Unschooling
• Social Media/Marketing
• Project Management
• Grant writing/fundraising

Hours and Compensation:

This is a full-time position (40 hours/week) beginning in late August 2026 through June 2027. We offer opportunities to work at our camp if summer work is desired. Pay is $25/hr with a $200/month healthcare stipend (to be reimbursed for marketplace plans). 2 paid weeks off for winter break. 5 paid personal days and 5 paid sick days. Compensation will be reviewed regularly and will grow alongside our unschool.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:

8:30am-9:00am Prep

9:00am-3:00pm Wild Seeds Day

3:00pm-3:30pm Staff meeting

Wednesday

9am-5pm Administrative Work

Planning

Four additional paid hours of planning each week.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plan and facilitate at least one offering per day (approximately 1 hour)
• Plan and facilitate one small group activity per day for assigned age group (30-45 minutes)
• Support kids with self directed learning throughout the rest of the day
• Support conflict resolution as it comes up with young people throughout the day
• Contribute to organization-level administrative tasks (internal and external newsletter, plan and execute bimonthly flying squad field trips, coordinate with volunteers, supply ordering, calendar updates)
• Attend bi-yearly parent meetings of all small group families in addition to other parent meetings throughout the year as they come up.
• Plan, attend and facilitate weekend community events throughout the year
• Respond to parent communications as they come up
• Document learning through our portfolio building app daily
• Create social media posts about our programming
• Facilitate morning meetings for the whole community

Hiring Process:

1. Prior to applying, please read our Who We Are, Core Values, and Wild Seeds sections of our website to check out our vibe and vision
2. We encourage you to read through the Agile Learning Centers website and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education to gain more insights into the kind of facilitation we are seeking
3. Complete the application and email us a copy of your resume at hello@thedandelionproject.us by Tuesday, May 5th
4. First round interviews will be scheduled between May 6-15
5. Second round interviews/a site visit will be scheduled between May 18-29
6. Hiring decisions will be made by June 3

We offer a $200 health insurance stipend to off-set the cost of marketplace insurance.