Assistant Director, Programs and Operations

Assistant Director, Programs and Operations

Who We Are:

Camp Gilboa is more than a summer camp. As part of an international youth movement, we are raising the next generation of progressive Jewish leaders dedicated to the principles of collective responsibility, social justice, equality, peace, and coexistence in North America and Israel/Palestine. Our summer camp and year-round programs seek to spark a passion for social justice, develop critical thinking, and encourage youth to see themselves as creators and active participants in their communities.

Our people are idealists, dreamers, and activists. Campers and staff show up to each activity ready to build something new and explore what it means to live according to our values. To us, living Jewishly means building an inclusive and creative community, with opportunities for identity exploration and deep questioning, and always striving to close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be.

Youth empowerment and leadership development is an inherent part of our mission. That means that our teen campers and young adult counselors take on major responsibilities in the organization: programmatic, ideological, and directorial. They engage in significant organizational decision making; they collectively build each summer’s program, and they take on roles such as Rosh (Summer Camp Director) and Rosh Chinuch (Educational Director), and much more.

Our year-round staff mentor and support these young leaders’ development and ensure safe, meaningful, and successful camp sessions and year-round programs.

Position Summary

The Assistant Director (AD) of Programs & Operations is a key position on the year-round director team. Together, the team is responsible for developing and monitoring the short- and long-term strategic goals for the growth and development of the organization. As part of the leadership team, they implement, evaluate, and adapt programs and operations to provide the best possible programming and services to our campers, families, staff, alumni, and volunteers.

The position responsible for all year-round youth movement programming, the AD of Programs & Operations holds core responsibilities in camper and staff recruitment and retention. As a member of the year-round leadership team, the AD provides leadership and support in administration and oversight of summer camp preparations (program and physical campsite), organizational operations, and program evaluation, and they are part of the core summer camp leadership team that ensures safe and successful experiences for campers and their families.

Responsibilities

• Year-Round Programming – Work with the Executive Director (ED) to evaluate, develop, and implement strategies for year-round programming that serves the purposes of meaningful community connection, social action engagement, camper retention, and camper recruitment.
• Support youth leadership to bring their vision for youth movement programming into reality, through mentorship and guidance of program visioning, planning, recruitment, and implementation. Including:
• 2-4 community events + Tzedek (teen social action programming) events per semester in each of our program geographies:
  Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and San Diego
• Weekend Seminar for campers over Presidents’ Day Weekend
• West Coast Seminar for teens in April, in collaboration with Habonim Dror Camp Miriam
• Ma’agal (staff retention program) programming & January weekend seminar
• Family Camp in May over Memorial Day Weekend
• Work with youth leaders to ensure that all programs are safe, staffed, and high quality.
• Respond to parent inquiries, questions, and concerns, and support families through the year to camp registration.
• Support outreach programming in collaboration with the AD of Outreach & Recruitment as needed (presence at events, program planning, youth staff recruitment, etc).

• Camp Facilities and Rentals – Serve as a member of committees responsible for site management (Facilities Committee, Master Plan Committee), taking on tasks to move committee work and vision forward in collaboration with lay leadership and the Executive Director.
• Partner with the ED & youth…