Team Leader - Summer 2025 - Work Study or Regular Pay

Position:  Team Leader (TL) 

Salary, Post Training: $500 per week, room and board included during active camp days

Salary, Training: $75 per day

Major Responsibilities:

UW-Whitewater is looking for outstanding role models to work at camp with middle/high school students in an indoor/outdoor.  Under the leadership of the Summer Manager, Team Leaders are responsible for the supervision and activities for camp participants. Highly qualified Team Leaders are committed to making a positive impact in the lives of the students we serve.  PreCollege Programs serves students ages 11-17 and strives to provide exceptional programming in its daily classroom instruction and enriching life experiences through its recreational and cultural activities. Team Leaders will provide guidance during the cultural/academic programming, as well as monitoring during recreational events, floor monitoring in the residence halls during the evening/night hours, and general problem solving throughout the summer camp/program. 

PreCollege offers several camps, offering this position the opportunity to serve for about 1 – 6 weeks.

Position contingent on grant funding and program needs.

Deliverables:

• Participate in all PC summer trainings and serve as an Authorized Adult for camp youth participants
• Lead leadership building sessions during down times
• Able to stay overnight over the duration of camp(s)
• Establish a positive, high energy, optimistic tone throughout the day
• Ensure that students are physically and emotionally safe
• Develop solid mentorship relationships with students that are built on respect
• Observe and respond to any students that are not engaging
• Be active in identifying ways to ensure students are enjoying their time, engaging in classes, and feeling like they belong
• Modeling what appropriate engagement looks like during classes and activities
• Handle off-task, disruptive behavior in a respectful manner.  Must be able to diffuse any problem to the best of abilities that presents itself.
• Communicate behavior incidents and follow protocol
• Model the same behavior you expect to see from students
• Monitor students and work with TLs to ensure student expectations are met and students are talked to and supported when students exhibit unusual or disruptive behavior
• Observe groups throughout in-person camps
• If a student is sick, carry out the safety plan to ensure all other staff and students are safe
• Spend time in virtual classes to see how classes are running and if technology is running properly
• Problem solve and communicate with students and teachers in a calm and proactive manner, even if demands are high
• Ensuring that all in-person classes have the technology needed to provide teachers what they need to teach their lessons
• Participate in an individual employee professional development evaluation
• Step in with on-sight duties, as needed

American Association of Colleges and Universities:
The PreCollege Program participates in high-impact practice methodology defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities to create sustainable student success goals and monitor progress toward achieving equity to improve educational outcomes for all students. Empirical evidence shows that students involved in high-impact practices enjoy higher levels of learning success. Staff participate in an intentional reflection on organizational outcomes, develop a personalized comprehensive plan, and are evaluated by an association approved rubric based on what policymakers and employers demand.

University of Wisconsin – Whitewater Diversity Leadership Certificate:
PreCollege Program staff successfully satisfying the following employment opportunity will receive credit toward earning UW-Whitewater’s Diversity Leadership Certificate, if eligible; students are still required to communicate with the facilitator of the certification program for finalization. The certificate is designed to allow students across the disciplines, to engage in in-depth diversity learning around issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability. Geared toward building responsible citizens and reflective professionals, the overall certificate uses curricular and cocurricular activities to enhance knowledge, develop facilitation skills, and engage in productive collaborations across differences. Assessed through artifacts submitted to an ePortfolio, students will gain skills at building inclusive environments and an ability to address complex social issues.

Potential Dates of Employment: Monday, June 2, 2025 – Friday, July 25, 2025. Minimum of one week to a maximum of ten weeks, dependent on position; employment dates subject to change. Required training scheduled in the week of Monday, June 2, 2025.

Deadline: Sunday, February 23, 2025

Application Form: https://uwwhitewater.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e4KllinxNy5auCq

If any questions on the position, please contact:

Miguel Aranda, Associate Director

Office: McCutchan 323

Phone: (262) 472-1677

Email: ArandaM18@uww.edu

To learn more about our summer camps please visit www.uww.edu/precollege