PAC Internship

– Camp Cobbossee for Boys –

Monmouth, Maine

Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 13th to August 10th, 2026.

Cobbossee is looking for male and female Elementary Education students to intern this summer  aim of this internship is to develop vast experience in the Management, relationship development and engagement of campers aged 8-10. Through close mentorship, Cobbossee’s experienced educators will manage you closely to provide an internship that provides vast contact time with a range of ages and personalities whilst developing communication, group management and leadership skills.

The Elementary Education internship role is crucial to the success of our youngest age group, the Rovers. These are boys in 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade. Cobbossee is a boys sports and adventure camp dedicated to helping all of our boys and counselors forge deeper relationships with each other, fostering independence in a residential environment. Crucially, this process starts at our youngest ages and is fostered by you, the counselor!

Arriving after wake up and leaving after lights out each day, each counselor accompanies their bunk to meals and through routines in a pastoral role. Throughout the day’s activity sessions, the counselor will guide an activity group of Rovers around all of their activities on the sporting fields, at the Waterfront and at the Adventure program.

In this way, the counselor is absolutely central to the daily experience of boys at these ages, and the relationships they form are necessarily deep and broad. This position offers responsibility, variety and an extremely involved role in the Cobbossee culture. You will work hard, but you will also become really important to your boys. Lots of tears on departure day!

• Patient, warm, creative, and kind.
• Experience with young people (especially 2nd-4th grade boys)
• Ability to make routines and small tasks seem interesting
• Tolerance for repetition (this age group likes to do stuff over and over)
• Enthusiasm for the variety of activities (Sports, Adventure, Waterfront) one will perform with the boys, regardless of one’s own proficiency in any one activity

• Primary source of care, affection, attention, and encouragement for our young boys, in collaboration with other counselors (three male counselors in each bunk)
• Group management at activities and accompanying the bunk from place to place
• Steady attention and care distributed to each of the boys as equally as possible
• Collaboration with leadership staff members and co-counselors to deliver excellent residence life experience and programming

• Ever wanted to see New England? Well, in addition to your Salary and Bonus, Cobbossee will provide you with a Travel Stipend so you can get out to Maine without spending your own money. (That’s right, we cover your travel so that you can take this adventurous internship).
• Room and board is also provided ALL SUMMER LONG, so you won’t have any outgoings whilst at camp.
• Our female staff live separately to our boys & male staff, in single gender accommodation.
• Inhouse benefits include an on-site laundry, Staff room, weight room, arranged travel offsite and facilities use all summer.
• If you like to eat, you are in luck because the food is famously good , really, it is! Check out Louis on our website.
• Further, and maybe most importantly for a summer work experience; days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous college-aged folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends y return year-to-year. We have a very rich social scene over the summer, hiring men and women from all over the states…