Kenai River Fly Fishing Guide

Job Objective: To provide a safe and enjoyable sportfishing experience for all KRF guests to the best of their ability considering circumstances on any given day.

Compensation: Salary starting at $180 per day for guided trips and offers free food and housing. Hourly rate for pre-season set up and non-guiding work. For meals, staff can expect to have a stocked kitchen and pantry to prepare breakfast and lunches and dinner is chef prepared and served daily.

Location: Kenai Riverside Lodge; on the Kenai River, Cooper Landing, Alaska. Staff members will fly (if not driving) into Ted Stevens Airport in Anchorage, Alaska where an Alaska Wildland Adventures’ manager or team member will provide transportation to the lodge. We also provide transportation back to the airport at the end of the season.

Our Season: June 4 - September 10. New employees will be required to arrive in late April or Early May to attend mandatory training. Guides may be released early or asked to stay later than September 10 based on bookings.

Benefits:

• Free Housing: Fishing guides are provided their own private tent cabin as a courtesy; staff provide their own linens and blankets
• Free Food: Food is provided free of cost. Stocked staff kitchen for breakfast and lunch. Professionally prepared staff dinner is served daily
• Provided Equipment: Drift and power boats, company vehicle, rods & reels, all standard tackle provided free to guide staff for guided trips
• Other Provided Equipment/Amenities: Use of wood-fired sauna, staff drift boat, and rafts when not being used by guests, as well as filet station, bags, commercial vacuum sealer, and walk-in freezer personal fish storage
• Discounts: Friend and family discounts for AWA trips and lodging
• Paid Training
• Staff Events/Activities: Lots of outdoor staff social events, adventure partners, and accessible recreation (hiking, biking, fishing, boating, etc.)

Licenses Needed:

• Minimum Wilderness First Aid (WFA)
• Minimum Restricted Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels (ROUPV) on Kenai River, or greater USCG licensure
• Successful completion of the five day Kenai River Guide Academy
• Successful completion of AWA raft, drift boat and fishing guide trainings
• AWA will pay or help subsidize the following: Alaska Fishing License, Kenai River Guide Academy, Kenai River Special Management Area Fishing Guide Permit, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sport Fishing Guide License, pre-employment drug test, UCSG Limited Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels (OUPV) License (aka, “six-pack”).

Responsibilities:

• Work requiring knowledge gained in advanced training and specialized experiences in sportfishing, guiding, teaching of angling techniques, interpretation of fisheries and natural studies, principles of group leadership and interpersonal communications, as well as safety skills and precautions.
• Performing work that is original, dynamic, and creative in character. Each and every situation during your work may require unique approaches and varying techniques in order to result in a consistent overall high quality experience for trip participants. Alaska Wildland Adventures recognizes that high quality results depend upon the invention, imagination, and talent employee possess’ for this profession.
• Imparting knowledge and instruction in sportfishing as necessary for trip participants.
• Employee is recognized by Alaska Wildland Adventures as an outdoor and environmental educator, and the learning, formal and informal, that takes place by trip participants while on the trips is substantial. We highly respect the professional nature of this position.
• Consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in the performance of the work. Within a wide range of standards and guidelines, employee will be granted independence in carrying out work within generally acceptable standards of this profession.
• Dynamic time scheduling. Guiding and leading trips involves work of such character that the output produced and the result accomplished is difficult to standardize on a time basis. Accordingly, employee will be compensated on a salary basis.
• Work requires supervisory capacity over all trip participants for duration of trip.
• Flexibility and diversity. Employee duties and assignments may be modified and altered incidentally to Employee principal duties to allow for smooth operation of the business and maximum employment opportunities for the Employee. Please recognize that this may from time to time involve working for other departments within AWA.
• Camp chores as assigned to allow for values of integration, coordination, cross training, employee benefits of sharing drudgery tasks, synergy, and maximum employment opportunity.
• Employee will be expected to do “dirty work” and manual labor from time to time, sometimes with other departments within AWA

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $180.00 - $220.00 per day

Benefits:

• Employee discount

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• On call
• Overtime

Supplemental pay types:

• Tips

COVID-19 considerations:
Vaccination required

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Cooper Landing, AK: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have a valid Wilderness First Aid certification or willing to obtain prior to start date?

License/Certification:

• Near Coastal Six-Pack License (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

Salary : $180 - $220