What are the responsibilities and job description for the Camp Counselor position at Camp Wakeshma?
Job Description – Now Hiring for 2025
Responsible to: Program Director and Unit Leaders
Responsibilities:
- promote the attributes of the C.A.M.P.P. Wakeshma community
- assist senior counselors
- lead junior counselors and campers
- report any signs of abuse to the camp director
- greet campers and parents during check-in
- check cabin every 15 minutes during free time
- facilitate class
- work with and privately point out homesick campers to mentor unit leaders
- take part in a work period
- live in cabin with campers
- organize campers at flagpole
- conduct a headcount of cabin group when instructed
- help make sure campers are listening during directions and announcements
- sit with campers during meals
- sing camp songs after lunch and dinner with cabin
- make sure that all campers have checked out the appropriate way
- clean cabin at end of each week – bleach mattresses, sweep floors, empty garbage cans, place
items left behind in lost and found, turn off lights and fans, close doors - assist in cleaning bath houses
- attend daily meetings to exchange information with camp directors
- perform other duties as determined by the Executive Camp Director
Leave time:
Counselors will get 3 “nights out,” from just after taps to midnight, during weeks camp is in session from Sun.- Sat. For shorter weeks, they’ll get 2 nights out. During these “nights out,” counselors must stay at camp between the lodge and the waterfront unless given specific permission otherwise.
