The Group Leader plays a vital role in bridging camp leadership and frontline staff, overseeing multiple groups of campers and counselors to ensure a safe, structured, and positive camp experience. They support the Camp Director, Program Director, and Office Administrator with daily operations, orientations, and activities while serving as a mentor and trainer for their counselor teams. Group Leaders remain actively engaged in the camp setting, modeling strong leadership and initiative, and may also lead a group of campers directly when needed.
Pre-Camp: Group Leaders assist with staff orientation and training, helping prepare counselors for their roles. They review programming and schedules, organize group assignments, and establish expectations for supervision, safety, and camper engagement.
During Camp: Group Leaders oversee the daily activities of counselors and their assigned camper groups, providing direction, feedback, and on-the-job training to strengthen staff performance. They ensure safe and smooth transitions between activities, support special programs and field trips, and step in to lead a camper group when necessary. Their presence is hands-on, reinforcing camp culture, energy, and positivity across all groups.
Post-Camp: Group Leaders help wrap up weekly programming by reviewing counselor performance, providing feedback to leadership, and assisting with any reporting or administrative close-out tasks. They contribute observations and recommendations to improve staff training and programming for future sessions.
This position requires strong leadership skills, patience, enthusiasm, and adaptability to meet the needs of campers and staff. Group Leaders are key to ensuring that Kidcam delivers on its mission of a safe, fun, and unforgettable summer while developing the next generation of counselor leaders.
Kidcam is one of the most trusted name brands in day camp operators for children ages 5-13. Creating great summers is a year-round job at Kidcam, but the need for physical operational space is seasonal. As a result, Kidcam partners with facilities looking to showcase physical resources, provide services for the community and generate incremental revenue without business disruption or the added labor and demands involved in operating their own program.
Kidcam manages all aspects of summer day camp programming & operations with the exception of owned spaces. We partner with 30+ host facilities across the U.S. for our day camps in recognizable locations like state & city parks, recreation districts, universities, schools, churches and premier destinations driving a revenue stream, community service, mission-supporting program into private and public partner facilities to bring the most powerful summer day camp experiences to life for children & their families.
At Kidcam Camps, summer camp isn’t just something we do, it’s all we do. And we strive to do it better than anyone else. And through our long-standing traditions and values, Kidcam works year-round to bring the Spirit of Summer to life by creating memorable moments and lasting relationships all through the power of camp. We employ a tenured team of over 400 full-time and seasonal employees to lead our camps. And we welcome over 4,000 campers ages 5-13 each summer throughout our locations.
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Kidcam is members of the LRPA, NRPA, NIRSA and accredited by the American Camp Association. To learn more about being a summer camp host facility, connect with our President/CEO, @MelissaVergonaConner.
