Job description
Camp Coordinator for Camp Pursuit
Full Job Description:
Job Title: Camp Counselor.
Department: Administration.
Program: Camp Pursuit.
Reports to: Camp Pursuit Program Director.
Part-time.
Position Summary:
This is a part-time position. The Camp Pursuit Camp Counselor is responsible for supervising and guiding campers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This includes organizing activities, ensuring campers safety, offering emotional support, greeting new campers and implementing camp rules and guidelines. Handles confidential information.
Duties:
- Plans, leads, and implements camp programs.
- Provides high-quality educational and recreational opportunities and enjoyable experiences for camp participants.
- Supervises campers and ensures their safety, development, growth, skill achievement, and general well-being.
- Maintains a schedule for camp participants.
- Facilitates and creates plans for activities.
- Organizes and leads various small and large group activities.
- Ensures the cleanliness of the camp location.
- Assists in maintaining accurate program records, including incident reports, documentation, rosters and attendance.
- Knows and understands all emergency procedures associated with the overall camp program.
- Records and tracks camper’s dietary restrictions/allergies and ensures that the meals/snacks are distributed to them.
- Mediates any campers’ disputes.
- Knows, enforces, and follows all safety guidelines associated with the camp program.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent plus minimum of two (2) years camp counselor related experience, light industrial and camp product handling experience.
- Must have good organizational, problem solving, verbal, and written skills.
Camp Counselor Qualifications / Skills:
- Enjoys being in the company of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Leadership.
- Alertness.
- Communication skills.
- Patience.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Stamina.
- Caring personality.
- Organization skills.
- Mediation skills.
- Must be able to carry heavy loads and travel hilly and uneven terrain, if applicable.
- Ability to perform a variety of tasks outside in various climates, if applicable.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Education and experience in camp programs, recreation, working with adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities, or in a related field.
- First AID certification.
- Lifeguard certification, if applicable.
- Valid Driver’s License.
Physical/ Mental Requirements:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop, kneel or crouch.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About The Center for Pursuit:
The Center promotes the pursuit of choice, growth, and independence for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, or similar conditions.
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