The Summer Day Camp Counselor serves as a professional role model for our campers by leading through example and guiding campers through recreational activities that teach life skills, encourage healthy and safe behaviors and create a positive camper experience. The Summer Camp Counselor ensures that each youth has adequate supervision including ensuring that no youth is unsupervised at any time.
What do you need to be a Summer Day Camp Counselor?
- A commitment to and a passion for working with diverse youth
- Enjoy being outdoors, are creative and not afraid to work and play hard
- Your experience in camping, childcare, education, recreation, sports or related is a plus but not required
- You will be 18 years of age or older by the start of camp
- Excellent verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely present ideas and concepts and tailor communication to multiple audiences
- Passion for working with diverse youth and ability to provide a high-quality of instruction using age-appropriate practices
- Proven ability to establish constructive relationships and interact as a positive role model
- Continuous learner who leverages opportunities for learning and applies new knowledge and skills
- Meets physical qualifications required as outlined in job description
- The YMCA will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities
As a Summer Day Camp Counselor, you are responsible to: - Promote the YMCA, provide excellent customer service and create an outstanding camper experience for children, parents and families.
- Lead recreational activities with campers, including but not limited to: arts and crafts, sports, social recreation, songfests, nature hikes, archery, and other games and hobbies
- Instruct campers using various teaching methods and modifies activities as needed to ensure that campers of all ages and experience levels are engaged
- Teach socially acceptable behaviors to campers by serving as a role model and by using age-appropriate positive reinforcement and behavior management strategies
- Communicate consistently with supervisors, team leaders, unit leaders and other team members to ensure everyone is kept abreast of camp activities and schedule
- Supports camp activities as assigned by supervisor, including any specialty camp activities
- Ensures the physical and emotional health and safety of campers by being safety conscious, following all established YMCA standards and critically evaluating situations for potential risks
- Ensures compliance with established rules and regulations to ensure safety
- Monitors campers and counselors and provides corrective coaching and intervention as necessary
- Set-up facilities and/or equipment for activities and stores equipment appropriately after use and work to keep camp facilities clean at all times