What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Camp Counselor position at The Salvation Army Southwest Division?
Job Description
Job Description
Join our team as a Lead Day Camp Counselor, where you'll oversee camp activities, mentor staff, and create a fun, engaging environment for children. This role involves supervising day camp counselors, ensuring camper safety, facilitating activities, and handling parent communication. Ideal candidates have experience working with youth, strong leadership skills, and CPR / First Aid certification.
Qualifications :
- Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
- Must have valid CPR / First Aid / AED certifications.
- Must obtain a Food Handlers card upon first day of work.
- Must obtain a tuberculosis test upon first day of work.
- Have previous experience programming youth activities and working with children. Preferably in a camp setting.
- Must be capable of learning basic point-of-sales procedures and database via computer system.
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate and coordinate efforts with Kroc Center personnel, community leaders, community organizations and the general public.
- Must be able to read, write and communicate in English.
- Ability and confidence to assist in teaching a variety of activities.
- Strong desire and ability to work well with children, parents, and staff in a capacity of leadership, counseling, and education including but not limited to :
- Relate joyfully and sensitively to children of all ages.
- Sensitivity to children’s individual needs
- Use appropriate positive discipline consistently.
- Dependability
- Handle security and crisis situations calmly
- Engage and maintain a child’s interest in activities.
- Must have the ability to maintain a non-judgmental attitude in working with customers, clients, members and staff.
Responsibilities :
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :
Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements of the position. The Salvation Army will attempt to satisfy requests as long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship would result.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and reach with hands and arms on a continuous basis. The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 20 pounds, frequently lift and / or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and / or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must have the ability to operate telephone, a desktop or laptop computer, as well as the ability to access and produce information from a computer, and to understand written information.
