Part-Time Summer Camp Assistant Naturalist - Shaver's Creek Environmental Center

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* ** JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
** Assistant camp naturalists will glean techniques, skills, and hands-on experiences while serving in a supportive role for the group leader (camp naturalists) during nature-focused summer camp at the Shaver’s Creek facility. This supportive role includes assisting with group management, leading games and activities, singing songs, reading stories and addressing the needs of campers. Through this experience you will learn how to work well with children outdoors, design activities and games, set goals, and grow through leadership experiences.
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*** At Shaver’s Creek facility, you will work 47 - 50 hours each week.
* Most of those hours are working outdoors (regardless of weather conditions) with children and peers on and along narrow dirt trails in nature.
* Access to bathrooms in stalls depends upon the schedule for the day but is typically every 2 or 3 hours.
* Gear for yourself and activities is carried on you;
* with or without accommodations* (in your backpack or provided pack basket) and is likely to weigh 10-15 lbs.
* Pay is $10.50/hour for the first 40 hours worked in a week. Hours above 40 earn time and a half.
* Housing may be available for out-of-the-area applicants. (There are a few rooms available and are  filled on an as-needed and on a first-hire basis.)
* Training:
Monday - Friday, typically 9:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m. for the first two full weeks in June and will include certification in First Aid, CPR, AED, and Epi-Pens (Certification in advance of training is not needed.)
* Training time includes peer bonding opportunities, techniques on working with children, examples of games and activities, lesson planning guidance, time on the trails, emergency procedures, and what a day of camp really looks and feels like.
* Camp week hours worked:
Monday 9:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m.;
Tuesday - Thursday 8:00 a.m.

- 5:15 p.m.;
Friday 8:00 a.m.

- 11:00 p.m.;
Saturday (having likely stayed overnight via camping on-site and only three times a summer) 6:00 a.m.

- 9:00 a.m. These hours include a staff meeting and limited prep time in the morning, as well as meetings at the end of the day.
* There is a “mid-season” week over the week of July 6, 2026. We will have off that Monday and Friday but will be on-site 9:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m. with professional development opportunities, some social time, goal check-ins and other sessions related to grounding and centering halfway through the program season.
* It is ideal if someone can commit to the entire June 1 - August 1, 2026, time frame. While the timeframe is extensive, it is a way to get the most out of this experience. Great opportunities are missed by those who can only commit to a partial schedule as this is a time to learn, grow, try new things, and be with your new camp friends.

In the words of a former employee who only committed to a limited part of summer program, during the last week of the season they commented “Now I understand why you want people to work the whole summer.”If you absolutely cannot commit to the entire time frame, you must at least be able to commit to the two full weeks of training and three weeks of program.

If there is a specific day or time that you have an important life event (like you are…