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Seasonal Camp Counselor - Charley Taylor Recreation Center - Summer 2025
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Camp Counselors for the Charley Taylor Recreation Center - Summer 2025
Join our team as a Seasonal Summer Camp Counselor and make a lasting impact! You'll lead and inspire kids through fun indoor and outdoor activities, including arts, crafts, games, and sports. Use your creativity and leadership skills to organize engaging programs, coordinate resources, and develop exciting plans that create unforgettable experiences. If you’re energetic, love working with children, and thrive in a dynamic environment, !
Essential Job Functions
- Must be mature, enthusiastic, imaginative, energetic, creative, have strong leadership skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work effectively in a TEAM environment.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, organization, and mediation skills.
- Ability to motivate and maintain a positive atmosphere, and if necessary, use positive disciplinary techniques.
- Working knowledge of company safety protocols and ability to administer minor medical care.
- Leadership, alertness, and patience.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, adapt to last minute changes.
- Physical stamina and ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to withstand working outdoors in extreme weather conditions.
- Must be able to lift, pull, push or drag up to 60 pounds of equipment, i.e. ice chest, supply boxes, inventory.
- Commit to the seasonal schedule.
- Must be able to attend camp counselor orientation and training prior to the first day of camp.
- Provides high-quality programming and recreational opportunities and enjoyable experiences for camp participants ages 6-15.
- Supervises campers and ensures their safety, development, growth, skill achievement, and general well-being.
- Organizes and leads various small and large group activities.
- Ensures cleanliness of the site, sweeping, mopping, throwing away trash, cleaning up after activities.
- Assists in maintaining accurate program records, including incident reports and daily attendance.
- Mediates any campers’ disputes.
- Knows, enforces, and follows all safety guidelines associated with the camp program, always including the whereabouts of your campers.
- Providing positive and enthusiastic customer service to all Members and guests.
- Maintains constant surveillance of the pool area and be confident in the water.
- Ability to use sound judgement in handling disciple issue with campers, and to make quick decisions to ensure safety of all.
- Accompany groups on field trips.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Requires a High School diploma or GED and one year of recreation experience. An Associates degree or two years of college with major course work in leisure services, park administration or a related field preferred.
- License: A valid Texas Class C drivers license required.
- Experience: Working and supervising children in a recreation or camp environments preferred and cash handling a plus.
- Current lnfant/Child/Adult CPR and First Aid with AED certification or ability to attend training upon employment offer.
- Camp, youth programs, recreation, or working with children experience preferred, but not required.
For city employees who are regular part time (10-19 hours per week) or seasonal hired placed on City payroll, the following benefits are provided:
- PARS - Public Agency Retirement System: the employee contributes 6.2% each paycheck to this retirement system and the city provides 1.3%. The employee does not pay into Social Security. All of the employees contributions may be withdrawn upon separating service from the city. The City's contributions will not be paid unless the employee retires under the system.
- Part time or seasonal employees are not eligible for any paid leave or other benefits.
- Part time or seasonal employees are limited to working only 1,000 hours per 12-month period, unless the seasonal is project based for a specific period of time which is typically less than 12-months.
Closing Date/Time: 3/14/2025 5:00 PM Central
City of Grand Prairie
Welcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!
We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
team!
Salary : $15 - $19
