Get Involved: Volunteer Services - Hunt Mentor

Hunt Mentor

Description:

Each year, hundreds of Coloradans experience hunting and shooting sports for the first time through educational seminars, skills clinics and unique hunting opportunities made possible by volunteers. 

What You’ll Do:

• Share Your Skills: Assist with mentored hunts, skill clinics and special events, teaching essential skills like ethics, shooting accuracy, and processing.
• Educate: Help beginners understand ecology and how to identify local game species.
• Prep the Gear: Assist with the annual maintenance, assembly, and equipment.
• Inspire: Represent CPW at community events and hunts to promote outdoor recreation.
• Aid Hunt Leads: Help hunts run smoothly by helping with many background tasks that are essential to a great hunt camp.

Volunteer Requirements:

• Have Hunting Knowledge: Safety comes first, so some hunting knowledge is a must. Those looking to advance will be required to showcase knowledge and skills.

• Registered Volunteer: Must be registered as a CPW volunteer. 

• Background Check: Prospective mentors must be able to pass a background check.

• Initial Orientation & Training: This is required of all individuals who want to become hunting volunteers. It is offered once a year and includes 8 hours of training.

Options to Advance: Hunter Outreach Assistant and Hunt Support positions help to ease volunteers into higher roles such as Hunt Leads and Senior Hunt Leads that require more certifications and experience.

Time Commitment:

Mentored hunts, clinics and other events vary in their time requirements and can have early mornings, late nights, prolonged hours each day, and be on weekends.

Volunteer Benefits:

Why You’ll Love It:

• Support the next generation: There is nothing quite like the excitement of helping someone harvest their very first animal.
• Skills development: CPW continually offers its volunteers opportunities to advance their hunting knowledge.
• Strengthen your communities: Spend time outside while growing your community through teaching hunting.
• Appreciation incentives: Receive hats, t-shirts, and Colorado State Park passes for your service.

Ready to pass on the tradition? If you have good people skills and an interest in hunting, we want you on our team! Submit an application to become a mentor.

Interests:

Education - Education and Outreach, Education - Teach Children, Outdoors and Community Science - Hiking, Education - Teach Hunting Skills, Wildlife - Wildlife, General - Ongoing Volunteering, Outdoors and Community Science - Hunting, Education - Responsible Human-Wildlife Interaction, Education - Teach Archery Skills, Education - Firearm Practice and Safety, Education - Teach Adults

Skills:

Hunting, Education, Outreach, or Interpretation, Hiking/Walking, Camping, Backcountry