Job Description

Level: Entry
Job Location: Peninsula Jewish Community Center - Foster City, CA 94404
Position Type: SeasonalEducation
Level: High School
Salary Range: $5,600.00 - $6,400.00 Salary/month
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: OtherAbout Camp Keff:
For over 50 years, Camp KEFF has been a home for friendship, fun, and self-discovery. Accredited by the American Camp Association, we integrate timeless Jewish values with thrilling activities like swimming, art, music, and camp-wide celebrations. Whether it’s a week-long session or a one-day event, Camp KEFF inspires kids to play, learn, and make the world a better place.
Overview of the Role:
The Hebrew Experience Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining a high-quality Hebrew immersion experience at PJCC’s Camp Keff. This role blends educational leadership with hands-on collaboration to ensure Hebrew language and Israeli culture are integrated naturally and joyfully into daily camp life. The Manager partners closely with camp leadership, counselors, and specialists to build and implement a program that is fun, developmentally appropriate, and sustainable within the camp environment. This role requires flexibility and a willingness to be hands-on at different points throughout the camp day, leading activities with children, supporting counselors directly, and modeling Hebrew immersion practices as needed to ensure staff and campers are set up for success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design and implement an experiential Hebrew immersion program aligned with Camp Keff culture and values, creating two distinct two-week sessions – one for new Hebrew learners and one for fluent Hebrew speakers – with a goal of fostering joy and pride in speaking modern Israeli Hebrew
- Collaborate with the Camp Director, representatives from Kayitz Kef, and camp leadership team to integrate Hebrew into daily routines, activities, and camper interactions both within the Hebrew immersion program and throughout camp
- Coach and support counselors in using Hebrew naturally and confidently, recognizing varied levels of Hebrew language experience
- Partner with Camp Keff specialists and Unit Heads to integrate Hebrew and Israeli cultural experiences into lesson plans and activity areas, including sports, arts, music, and specialty programming
- Plan, oversee, and lead Israeli and Jewish cultural experiences offered to all campers throughout the entire summer
- Provide ongoing observation, feedback, and professional support to staff to strengthen Hebrew immersion practices and staff confidence
- Support onboarding, training, and collaboration with Hebrew-speaking and Israeli staff members throughout the camp season
- Provide hands-on, in-the-moment support, including stepping into and/or leading activities, modeling Hebrew usage, and assisting with transitions or coverage as needed to support program continuity and staff success
- Track camper engagement and Hebrew language growth through informal observation and reflection
- Participate in program evaluation and continuous improvement processes
- Facilitate weekly in-person family meetings during first “new Hebrew learner” session to support family engagement and communication
- Develop and distribute email newsletter in Hebrew and English to provide clear and consistent communication with Hebrew immersion program families
Seasonal Schedule & Employment Structure
This is a seasonal position with a phased schedule. The role will begin as part-time in the month of May, working up to 10 hours per week at an hourly rate of $35-$40 per hour.
Camp Staff Training runs June 1-12 and will be paid at an hourly rate $35-$40 per hour
During the camp period, the position will transition to full-time, with a standard schedule of Monday–Friday, 7:30 am–4:30 p.m. at the rate of $1400-$1600 per week.
Hours and Dates:
- Pre-Camp Planning & Training: This position requires 10 hours of training in the month of May with Kayitz Kef, along with additional pre-camp planning time. Scheduling of hours in May will be negotiated as needed.
- June staff training: June 1 - June 12 (Monday-Friday); times TBD based on availability.
- Eight Weeks of Camp: June 15 – August 7; 7:30am-4:30pm, Monday – Friday with daily one hour break; additional extended Camp staff hours:
- - Open House - Wednesday, June 10th 6:00-8:00pm
- - Family Pool Party – Wednesday, June 24th 6:00-8:00pm
- - Family Shabbat Picnic – Friday, July 31st 6:00-8:00pm
- - Some additional extended days may be required. Dates and schedules for extended work hours will be provided during staff training.
Salary: June – August: $1,400- $1,600 per week, depending upon experience; Pre-Camp Planning and Training in May will be paid at an hourly rate $35-$40 per hour. Free Summer membership to the Byer Athletic Center
PJCC is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer-Minority/Female/Veteran/Disability

Qualifications

Qualifications & Skills:
- Native or near-native fluency in modern Israeli Hebrew, both written and spoken
- Experience working with children in camp, educational, or informal learning environments
- Strong interpersonal, coaching, and collaboration skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, dynamic camp setting
- Organized, flexible, and solutions-oriented
- Camp experience strongly preferred
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is regularly required to stand; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, run or crawl.
Disclaimer: This job description indicates, in general terms, the type and level of work performed as well as the typical responsibilities of employees in this classification. The duties described are not to be interpreted as being all-inclusive to any specific employee. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and, when possible, to make reasonable accommodation so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job. Nothing in this description changes the at-will employment relationship existing between the PJCC and its employees.
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