Ski & Snowboard School

Sierra-at-Tahoe® Ski and Snowboard School offers a variety of positions and a great work environment.  The Ski and Snowboard School Director, Kevin Mitchell is a guide and trainer with the North American Ski Training Center and a former member of the Professional Ski Instructors Association’s elite Alpine Demonstration Team.  Mitchell is one of only a handful of instructors who can teach both skiing and snowboarding at the highest level.

The Sierra Teaching Experience Our Commitment to Training Ski & Snowboard School Jobs

The Sierra teaching experience

Teaching at Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort offers some of the best teaching terrain in the Tahoe basin, and you will enjoy tree-skiing, powder, backcountry and terrain parks. Sierra™ Resort is made up of a unique and diverse group of individuals brought together by our passion and love for snowsports. We place a high value on training and professionalism. Just like any other mountain resort, we are weather dependent, and the weather can often be finicky. With this in mind, Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort instructors get plenty of hours teaching and other tasks, increasing your earning power.

OUR COMMITMENT TO TRAINING

Sierra at Tahoe Resort is committed to offering high-level training opportunities to our staff.  Whether your goals are to seek a higher level of certification or just to improve as a skier/snowboarder and teacher, we are committed to growing our staff both personally and professionally. With current and former PSIA Demo team members on staff and fully certified trainers from several countries, we offer a diversified and professional training program.

Training Programs

At Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort we provide training programs to our instructors that are unrivaled by other resorts. From our highly certified training staff to our early morning access to the mountain, we guide the instructor through the often challenging and confusing process of obtaining certification. Our training modules include; PSIA/AASI Levels 1, 2 and 3 certifications, park and pipe certification, and children’s specific certification. Other training modules include guest service training, resort specific terrain training and backcountry training.

If you would like to aquire certification before becoming a ski/snowboard instructor at Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort, there are other options that could help increase your pay.  These training organization affiliations include Educating Adventures , PSIA – W (Professional Ski Instructors of America – Western Division) and AASI – W  (American Association of Snowboard Instructors – Western Division).

SKI & SNOWBOARD SCHOOL JOBS

How to get a job and what to expect at Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort

While we look for great applicant’s year around, we typically hire most of our domestic instructors during September and October. Most of our instructors teach skiing or snowboarding from December through April, with training programs starting in November and December. Weekends and holidays are our busiest periods and the time that we need help the most. We also have a Two Week Teaching Program for Part Time instructors that want a taste of what teaching is like in Tahoe; please contact HR for more information on this program.

Ski, Snowboard and X-over Instructors (Full-time or Part-time)

• Certified Instructors - We are offering positions for full and part time instructors who teach skiing, snowboarding or both. If you would like to be part of the best team you have ever been part of, please consider joining us for the 2007/2008 winter season. Sierra at Tahoe boasts the best teaching terrain in the Lake Tahoe region and some of the best tree skiing and backcountry terrain you can find. Come check it out yourself! If you do not have experience teaching skiing or snowboarding, you may apply.
  
• Inexperienced Instructors - We are offering limited positions to applicants wanting to learn how to become an instructor for skiing, snowboarding or both. These are both part time and full time positions.
  
• Foreign Nationals - We have a limited number of H2B Visas available for experienced instructors.  Please send a resume and 2 letters of recommendation with the Downloaded Application  to the address below.  Be sure to specify that you will need an H2B Visa in order to work in the US. We are no longer accepting applications for instructors needing H2B visas for the 07/08 season.
  
  Email: Snowsports.st@boothcreek.com
  Fax: 530.659.7749 or
  Mail to: Ski and Snowboard School
  Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort
  1111 Sierra at Tahoe Rd.
  Twin Bridges, CA 95735
  

Other jobs available through the Ski & Snowboard School

• Child care (Day Care) teachers and aides.  Preference for ECE qualified applicants.
• Ski and Snowboard School Sales/Admin. Sell ski and snowboard school products and help coordinate over-the-phone reservations.
• Competition Department.  Coaches & Race Crew with experience.
• Teacher Assistants. Help instructors with their classes out on the hill and indoors.