SUMMARY:

The Camp Counselor helps facilitate personal, social and educational growth in young people to help them reach their full potential in society. The Group Leader will motivate, model and help create a team of staff to support area youth in areas requiring assistance, such as mentoring, skill-building and personal growth.

Group Leader Job Responsibilities:

· Plans, leads, and implements camp programs for children.

· 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 lesson plans for daily activities.

· Organizes and leads various small and large group activities

· Ensures the cleanliness of the site.

· Assists in maintaining accurate program records, including incident reports, logbook documentation, and daily attendance.

· Knows and understands all emergency procedures associated with the 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, including knowing the whereabouts of your charges at all times.

Maintains constant surveillance of the pool/body of water areas.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: High School graduate, GED, or degree in education or related field preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) and Bi-Cultural not required. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, parents or employees of organization.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written,oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables

in standardized situations.

MENTAL/VISUAL DEMANDS: Flow of work and character of duties involve normal mental and visual attention much or all of the time. Specific vision abilities required by this position includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Eye-hand coordination required less than 15% of the time.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 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 regularly required to reach with hands and arms; stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, and/or kneel.

The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

License/Certification:

• First Aid Certification (Preferred)
• CPR Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Springfield, MA (Required)

Work Location: In person