UGM Camp Behavior Support 2025

Job Title: UGM Camp Behavior Support 2025

Location: 6088 Martha Boardman Road, Ford, WA, 99013

Base Pay: $6,000.00 Season/$600.00 Week

Employee Type: Non-Exempt

Job Category: Camp, Youth, Temporary

Description

Union Gospel Mission Youth Outreach

UGM Camp Behavioral Support

June 16^th – August 23^rd, 2025

Temporary Full Time Position

OVERVIEW:

This position entails living on site at UGM camp for 10 weeks with weekends off. All lodging, food, training and equipment are provided free of charge for the full 10 weeks. UGM camp serves nearly 500 youth ages 8-12 from our areas poorest neighborhoods and shelters by providing a free 5-day camp for at-risk, low-income youth. This person serves at camp as one of two ‘specialists’ who are available to counsel with children who need some extra attention ensuring emotional safety and diffusing difficult situations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the emotional safety for difficult children
• Counsel children with the goal of encouragement and getting back involved with camp and their cabin
• Be available and present at all activities, chapels, meals and meetings as well as on - call
• Diffuse difficult situations that might occur
• Work with church volunteers to give support to cabin leaders dealing with difficult children providing encouragement and ideas for working with campers

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL FACTORS:

Occasionally = 1%-33%; Frequently = 34%-66%; Continuously = 67%-100%

• Work is indoors and outdoors and may require climbing stairs, sitting, standing, bending, reaching, and going from building to building - Continuously.
• Requires working with a diverse population, many of whom experience homelessness, addiction and mental illness with – continuously.
• Requires a sustained level of high energy, stamina, and the ability to move all around the camp on a regular and ongoing basis – frequently.

• Requires the ability to hear, see, and speak clearly – continuously.

 REQUIREMENTS:

• Good listener and calm demeanor
• Good emotional boundaries
• Some experience or education in the counseling field preferred
• Able to articulate a growing faith in Jesus Christ
• Must adhere to UGM’s drug and tobacco-free policies, Sexual Purity, and engage in a Church Community.

 Union Gospel Mission is a privately funded 501 (c)3 non-profit, evangelical Christian ministry. Our designated purpose is religious, and we are a Christ-centered ministry which is dedicated to sharing the Gospel and helping the homeless and impoverished. We consider every position to be essential in the fulfillment of our ministry and Statement of Purpose. As such, each employee must have a relationship with Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.

• Be able and willing to share the Gospel and participate in all of the ministry activities of Union Gospel Mission.
• Subscribe to Union Gospel Mission Statement of Faith and Qualifications for Employment upon hire and continuously while employed.
• Adhere to Union Gospel Mission Employee Handbook.