FIVE18 Family Services

Hat Creek Overnight Summer Camp Counselor

FIVE18 Family Services  •  Virginia (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Hat Creek Overnight Summer Camp Counselor

Department: Hat Creek Camp

Job Status Active

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Director of Hat Creek Camp & Conferences

Job Type Full Time (Seasonal)

Positions Supervised: Summer Campers

Work Schedule: Sunday-Friday

Hat Creek Overnight Summer Camp Counselors are one of our campers’ favorite parts of summer! We provide a home away from home where our counselors are free to stretch their comfort zone, grow in ways they never knew possible, and discover the joy of summer camp. Our counselors have the unique opportunity to foster community with their cabin group by offering support and intentional daily reflection. Every week is different at camp and our counselors provide creativity, pizzazz, and laughter to our camp community. Hat Creek Camp provides counselors the opportunity to grow their skills in group management, age-appropriate programming, and safety and supervision.

Counselors will undergo a three-week training in preparation for summer camp. The training encompasses protocols and procedures as well as games, bonding, and goofiness. Counselors are guided and supervised by the Camp Director and Programming Coordinator. Our staff form close, lifelong friendships that last long after summer camp is over.

Join a team that is committed to constantly improving our outstanding programs and creating an excellent experience for kids!

Responsibilities

  • Create a positive a safe community for staff and campers
  • Provide overnight supervision to Hat Creek summer campers
  • Facilitate and participate in all summer camp programming
  • Be able to work collaboratively and in a timely manner during program delivery
  • Maintain knowledge of camp schedule, programs, protocols, and procedures
  • Lead and encourage mealtime efficiency
  • Learn and facilitate large group camp songs, games, and skits
  • Clean cabins, inventory program supplies, and participate in debriefs(processing) after each program

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Starting salary of $250 per week depending on experience
  • (College Students Only) Educational Scholarship $1500.00-$3,000.00
  • Meals will be provided while summer programming is taking place at camp and during training
  • Lodging throughout employment
  • Paid training
  • Home-base for living, working, and exploring in beautiful central Virginia
  • Employment with an innovative company focused on improving the lives of others

Requirements

  • A passion for working with children and making a difference
  • Current CPR and First Aid certification, or willingness to obtain certification before start date
  • Participate and successfully complete required pre-summer camp training
  • Willingness to get outside of your comfort zone and try new things, such as being 30 feet off the ground on a challenge course
  • Ability to take initiative, work collaboratively, and have a positive attitude
  • Leadership experience or experience working with kids
  • Ability to work Sunday-Friday for 8 weeks
  • Ability to pass a background check
  • Minimum 18 years old
FIVE18 Family Services

About FIVE18 Family Services

At FIVE18 Family Services, one of our foundational values is that every child has the right to a safe and healthy home. Because of that, we are leading the charge to confront the reasons foster care exists. From Operations to Marketing to Family Care, every team and ministry at FIVE18 is designed for and dedicated to this charge.

Our Mission: To build communities of faithful relationships that ensure children are safe, and families are restored.

Why? Vision 30! By 2030, our focus is to see every child in Central Virginia (or “our region”) safe in their own family or in another setting with caregivers supported by a local faith community.

How? We meet families right where they are to provide healing, restoration, and hope.

Family Care

The Family Care team programs meet families where they are by providing help to families in crisis to help stabilize where they are and build a meaningful life for themselves and their children. We provide support for kinship caregivers, foster families, short-term placements for children, and long-term placements for children. We meet families where they are and help them to thrive.

Connect

Our Connect team will help you find your place. We partner with volunteers, churches, and agencies to strengthen families and keep them strong. We make the connections in our community to meet your practical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Counseling

Sometimes you just need someone to talk to. Everyone’s story should be heard and we are hear to listen. To meet your needs, our counseling services extend into some of the local school systems, Hope For Tomorrow Counseling, Hope Academy for Counselor Excellence, and Compass Marriage.

Hat Creek Camp

Virginia’s premier trauma-informed camp and retreat destination that offers year-round programming and availability for event reservations.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Lynchburg, VA
Year Founded
1961
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