Summer Camp Athletics Counselor - Baseball

Summer Camp Athletics Counselor - Baseball

Camp Poyntelle has been making children’s summer dreams come true since 1948. As a premier summer camp, we offer a traditional sleepaway experience filled with amazing memories, lasting friendships, and nurturing and compassionate staff. We feel that camp is one of the few places a child can be their own person, without judgment or social pressure. Our intentional community is designed to allow kids to be kids in a low-key, fun, and inclusive environment.

Description

As a member of the Athletics department, an athletic specialist works alongside our Area Directors to plan and implement the program in each sport. This includes running regularly scheduled activity periods, more intense and immersive elective periods, and working with teams of campers that will go off to compete in camp tournaments. Each specialist is also a bunk staff member. This means that the specialist is assigned to, lives in and is responsible for a bunk of campers alongside his or her co-counselors. As a result, each specialist also sits nighttime duty in their bunk, sits with their campers at meals, and attends trips with his bunk. In total, the athletic specialists are very much an integral part of both the athletic department and their bunk community.

Salary starts at $2350 for the 9 week contract. Room and board provided. Potential for additional work beyond the 9 week contract at a weekly rate with continued room and board. 

This is a residential summer camp where you would be living on site for the summer with room and all meals included.

Minimum Qualifications

• Training, coaching or other experience in athletics and specific sport (including but not limited to soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis/pickleball, volleyball,  football, and/or Krav Maga)
• Ability to teach skills in the sport
• Ability to set up demonstration area and program, and to teach skills to staff and campers of all ages
• Ability to organize equipment, communicate with athletic area directors
• Desire and ability to work outdoors
• Ability to lift equipment of up to 100 pounds, line fields, maintain sports apparatus
• Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, and self-control
• College student or equivalent of at least 18 years of age

Program Responsibilities

• Help plan and run each bunk rotation period throughout the day for a variety of age groups and for both girls and boys
• Plan and implement two to three day electives for individual campers to choose; market your elective to all campers during sign-up
• Alongside the area director for your area, keep your facility in good condition – including taking and keeping inventory for each type of equipment, maintaining the courts/fields by regularly cleaning and touching up as necessary (e.g. lining soccer fields)
• Communicate regularly with Area Director to make sure program is being put together to the highest possible standard
   

Bunk Responsibilities

• Watch after and care for the campers in their bunk during all periods not at their specialty area – this includes meals, rest hour, clean up, shower hour, and evening program
• Watch and be responsible for groups of their campers for off-camp trips to amusement parks, baseball games, bowling alleys, etc. 
• Sit nighttime duty in their bunk to make sure campers are going to sleep and are taken care of (2 nights per week)
• Attend staff meetings, complete staff training and regularly communicate with division head to make sure all the needs of the campers are being met

Essential Functions

• Ability to communicate and train staff and campers in safety regulations and emergency procedures
• Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards related to the activity
• Ability to communicate and work with group participating and provide instructions
• Ability to observe camper behavior, assess appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures and behavioral management techniques
• Ability to assist campers in case of emergency (fire, evacuation, illness, injury, inclement weather, intruder on premises, national emergency)

SUPERVISED BY ATHLETIC AREA DIRECTOR