What are the responsibilities and job description for the Day Camp Counselor position at Greater Green Bay YMCA?
Job Summary
Unleash potential and joy in each camper by helping them build memories, skills, values, and lasting friendships. As a Camp Counselor, you will care for and guide campers through a wide variety of camp activities. Work closely with the leadership team and campers to create a positive, engaging, safe, valuable, and memorable camp experience for all.
This position is seasonal (June-August, Monday-Friday)
Pay is $600 per week, with the opportunity to earn an additional $50 per week for overnight stays on Thursdays, providing extra flexibility and earning potential.
Essential Functions
Unleash potential and joy in each camper by helping them build memories, skills, values, and lasting friendships. As a Camp Counselor, you will care for and guide campers through a wide variety of camp activities. Work closely with the leadership team and campers to create a positive, engaging, safe, valuable, and memorable camp experience for all.
This position is seasonal (June-August, Monday-Friday)
Pay is $600 per week, with the opportunity to earn an additional $50 per week for overnight stays on Thursdays, providing extra flexibility and earning potential.
Essential Functions
- Provide leadership and supervision to a small group of campers engaged in a safe and educational outdoor recreational experience.
- Build close relationships, be a positive role model, and facilitate physical and emotional safety ensuring them a pleasant camp experience.
- Lead progressive program activities such as: Kayaking, Swimming, Arts and Crafts, Target Sports, Hiking, Field Sports, Biking, Low Ropes Course, Outdoor Skills, and Nature Exploration.
- Attend and contribute to all staff trainings, meetings, and events.
- Maintain a professional appearance and be prepared to make all parents, families, and campers feel comfortable with all questions answered.
- Work with leadership team to manage camper behaviors, use effective/appropriate discipline techniques, and ask for assistance as needed.
- Maintain a safe environment for all campers. In the event of an emergency, serve as a first responder (responding, reporting, and preventing.)
- Serve as a lifeguard when assigned to ensure safe swimming and waterfront activities.
- Assist with camp clean-up.
- Supervise campers for at least one Thursday overnight camping experience.
- Act according to facility protocol to ensure safety of all staff and children which includes:
- Adhere to policies related to boundaries with staff and children.
- Attend required abuse risk management training.
- Report suspicious and inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
- Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.
- Ensure unused rooms and closets remain locked, routinely monitor high-risk locations (locker rooms and bathrooms), etc.
- Ensure children are properly signed in and out, ensure only authorized adults are allowed in the facility, etc.
- Camp Counselors must be at least 18 years of age with a High School Diploma or GED. College courses or credits in child development are preferred. Experience in day or resident camping preferred.
- Leadership skills, excellent organizational and communication skills, a cooperative attitude, and the ability to work with and understand the needs of children in a camp atmosphere required.
- Counselors must enjoy working with youth in an exciting outdoor environment and have some demonstrated leadership abilities in this capacity.
- Ability to think flexibly and adjust to the unpredictability of camp life. Anything can happen!
- Sufficient visual, auditory, communicative, and cognitive abilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
- First Aid and CPR Certification required prior to the beginning of camp (training available).
- Lifeguard certification preferred (training available). You will be required to swim 300 yards continuously; perform a surface dive to depth of 7 to 10 feet to retrieve a 10lb object from the bottom of the pool; and tread water for 2 minutes.
- Considerable physical movement to include running, walking, hiking, boating, swimming, games, etc., required. Must be able to lift at least 30 pounds with or without assistance.
- Must have reliable transportation to travel to and from assigned start and end locations, including bus sites and camp, ensuring punctuality and consistency in fulfilling job responsibilities.
- Building Relationships: Connect people to the Ys cause by developing inclusive relationships and collaboration. Create sustainable relationships within the Y. Assist members in becoming more connected to the Y and build small communities.
- Emotional Maturity: How we understand and conduct ourselves impacts our relationships. Demonstrate ability to understand and emotions effectively in all situations.
- Advancing Our Mission and Cause: As a cause driven leader you will support Camp Wabansi, and campers by living the Ys core values of CARING, HONESTY, RESPECT, and RESPONSIBILITY in all interactions and aspects of job performance and demonstrate the desire to serve others and fulfill camp needs.
- Safety: Adhere to and enforce safety policies and procedures for Camp Wabansi. You must be able to respond in a crisis situation as directed by leadership and outlined in the Policies and Procedures manual.
- Inclusion: Values all people for their unique talents and takes an active role in promoting practices that support diversity, inclusion, as well as cultural competence within the camp community.
Salary : $600 - $650
