TITLE: Camp Kaleidoscope Counselor II
DEPARTMENT: Parks, Recreation and Community Services

DATES: Staff Training (approx. 30 hours) May 15-June 2, 2025, Camp Dates June 2-August 8, 2025. Additional work hours may available after August 8, 2025

PAY RATE: $15.00/hr

General Task Statement:
Responsible for the supervision and safety of children ages 3.5-5.5 and the basic instruction, including planning, of games, activities and crafts for campers. Individual must be available from June 2 through August 8, 2025. Hours for position vary; morning (3 hours), afternoon (3 hours), and full-day (6 hours) available.

Supervision:
Under the supervision of the Camp Kaleidoscope Director and Gymnastics Program Coordinator

Essential Function(s) – Task Statements:

• Attend staff training sessions-Up to 30 hours.
• Plan and instruct program activities, crafts, and games for camp participants
• Responsible for the safety of individuals in camp
• Supervise and lead participants in daily camp activities and field trips
• Responsible for effective and appropriate communication to caregivers regarding participant progress and behavior within program setting
• Attend staff meetings as scheduled by camp director/program manager
• Enforce late pick up policy and ensure all participants are properly dismissed to caregiver
• Responsible for care and maintenance of camp equipment and storage areas
• Complete written reports such as accident, incident reports on a timely basis
• Communicate to supervisor(s) if there are problems or issues needing special attention.
• Performs other duties as assigned by camp director or program coordinator

Specifications: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
Read: Ability to read staff manuals, memoranda, and attendance sheets.
Write: Ability to complete attendance sheets, accident reports, incident reports and camper behavior reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, and style.
Speak: Ability to give verbal direction to subordinates, communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, citizens, and the public as well as other employers; speaking extemporaneously on a variety of subjects.
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for sedentary work. Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree. However, if the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.
Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
Handling: Eeizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hands.
Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds.
Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture.
Tasting/Smelling: Distinguishing, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognizing particular flavors and/or odors, using tongue and/or nose.
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps, embankments, and the like using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
Stooping: Bending body downward or forward by bending spine at the waist.
Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to a rest on knee(s)
Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine.
Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are: The worker is subject to working on feet while conduction programs. Occasional heavy lifting of program equipment may be necessary.
Work environment includes recreation centers, gymnasiums, multipurpose rooms, kitchens, swimming pools, athletic fields, parks, playgrounds, office space, conference rooms, beaches, and field trip sites.
The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions approximately 25% of the time and outside work 75% of the time, no effective protection from the weather conditions or temperature changes.


Chosen candidates will be required to provide proof of licenses, certifications, and education required for this position. Candidates will also be subject to qualifying pre-employment processes, including medical examination, drug/alcohol screen, employment verification, and criminal background check.


The City of Evanston is an equal opportunity employer and ensures against discrimination in employment on the basis of a person’s race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status, source of income, housing status, or gender identity. The City of Evanston is also committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. Any person needing mobility or communications access assistance should contact Human Resources at 847-448-8204 (voice) or 847-448-8052 (TTY).