Overnight Camp - Camp Counselor

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Overnight Camp - Camp Counselor

Unit Counselors provide care, supervision, and leadership to campers in an overnight camp setting. Foster a safe, inclusive, and positive environment, ensuring campers’ well‑being while guiding them through activities that promote personal growth, teamwork, and outdoor appreciation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

NOTE:

The specific responsibilities of this position are carried out in collaboration with at least one other Unit Counselor. Unit Counselors ensure the quality and effectiveness of the following tasks:

• Supervise and ensure all campers complete healthy personal care routines, including but not limited to, brushing teeth, combing hair, using sun protection (e.g. sunscreen), eating well‑balanced meals, sleeping, resting, and showering.
• Facilitate and participate in daily and weekly “community responsibility” routines (i.e. kapers) with campers including cleaning their cabin, meal‑time jobs, flag ceremonies, and cleaning community areas, such as shower houses and the Dining Hall.
• Facilitate weekly cookouts with campers, incorporating youth voice and choice, dividing responsibilities, and community responsibility.
• Organize quality programming for campers utilizing camp outcomes.

• Training on these topics will occur at mandatory staff training prior to, and during, the summer camp season
• Knowledge of age level characteristics for camper‑age youth (7‑17 year olds)
• Demonstrate cultural competence and sensitivity while interacting with staff and clients, regardless of race, religion, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, or ANY other aspect of diversity.
• Utilize positive behavior‑management and discipline techniques
• Ability to supervise and participate in structured and unstructured activities with clients
• Ability to lead small and large group activities
• Develop an understanding of the value, benefits, and essential features of quality programming.
• Knowledge of camp outcomes.
• Knowledge of the Thrive Theory of Change and how to implement
• Ability to assess appropriateness of camper and staff behavior
• Utilize camp/outdoor programming skills to provide enrichment and appreciation of nature.
• Facilitate all activities with an awareness of quality programming and risk management.
• Enforce safety regulations and emergency procedures in an appropriate manner
• Ability to assess potential hazards, including behavioral and environmental, while interacting with others
• Knowledge of camp rules and emergency procedures, including their specific role in these procedures.
• Provide minor first aid.

• Model appropriate behavior, and interact appropriately, with staff and clients in a variety of situations
• Commitment to excellence in service delivery
• Able to be held accountable for meeting high performance goals related to camper care and quality programming
• Display punctuality and preparedness, for self and campers, for all activities and programs including staff meetings, activities, and meals.
• Complete reports and paperwork by deadlines.
• Set a leadership example by being friendly and industrious, always promoting promise‑based, excellence‑focused and consumer‑oriented programs.
• Participate in mandatory Staff Training and staff meetings throughout the summer camp season.

• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and speaking, with a high degree of comfort in public speaking
• Possess ability, strength, and endurance to maintain constant supervision of, communication, and interaction with, campers at all times.
• Committed to working as part of a team
• Willingness to try new ideas and methods
• Flexible
• Enjoys challenge and changes
• Possesses constructive conflict resolution skills
• Resilient, that is, able to bounce back from failure or disappointment

• At least 18 years of age
• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Ability to live with staff and campers for the duration of the summer camp season
• Physical ability to administer first aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Physical ability to travel over uneven surfaces in extreme summer temperatures for 15 hours a day.
• Physical ability to carry and move objects weighing up to 50 pounds over uneven surfaces
• Physical ability to reach, stoop, climb, kneel, and move freely in locations as outdoor camping sites and storage areas
• Ability to meet affiliate employment requirements, including acceptable outcomes to background check and reference checks
• (If utilizing personal vehicle for camp business) Provide personal auto insurance verification
• (If needed to drive affiliate vehicle) Acceptance by affiliate auto insurance