Arts and Crafts Specialist

Organization: Fiver Children’s Foundation- Camp Fiver

Location: Poolville, NY

Position: Arts and Crafts Specialist

Dates of Employment: June 15– August 22, 2025

Compensation: $375 / Week plus room and board (hourly option also available if lodging is not needed)

About the Fiver Children’s Foundation 

Fiver is not a typical after school program or summer camp.  We take a slow and steady approach, over ten years, to building relationships and developing social, emotional and life skills that lead to positive decision-making and outcomes for youth. We are committed to ensuring that all Fiver spaces, communications and interactions are: Inclusive, Warm, Youth-Centered, Honest, and Intentional. Through our one-of-a-kind ten-year commitment, Fiver provides experiences that challenge and builds relationships that nurture so that youth from marginalized communities in New York can create their own positive futures.      
 

Job Description 

Fiver is seeking an arts and crafts specialist for our unique, residential summer camp that serves 450 children ages 8 to 18 from systemically under-resourced communities in New York. The arts and crafts specialist is responsible for planning, leading, and coordinating creative art and craft activities for campers. The ideal candidate will have a passion for arts and crafts, a creative mindset, and the ability to work well with children, fostering their artistic expression and helping them build new skills.

Art Specialist Responsibilities

• Implement Camp Fiver’s art Curriculum
• Teach 3-4 art classes a day
• Support those counselors assisting in art classes with their facilitation
• Support development of skill and art appreciation with all participants
• Maintain organized and effective art space
• Communicate any supply needs with the Program Director.

Qualifications 

• At least 19 years old by June 2025
• One year post high school experience working with children preferred 
  
   

During their experience at Camp Fiver, the arts and crafts specialist will gain many transferable skills such as leadership, effective communication, time management, strategic thinking, behavior management and youth development best practices.

Fiver offers a $100 referral bonus in the first paycheck for every counselor/staff member that you refer, is hired, & arrives at camp for staff training.

Located in beautiful Upstate New York, Camp Fiver is a four-hour trip from New York City and is 45 minutes southeast of Syracuse. Camp Fiver’s 129-acre property includes a lake, a river, woodlands, a learning center, dining hall, horse barn and more. Counselors live at Camp Fiver for all 4, 12-day sessions (off days will be discussed thoroughly during staff training) including one and a half weeks of training prior to camp. 
 

Click Here to Apply for Camp Fiver 2025!

 

The Fiver Children’s Foundation believes that historically marginalized communities must be centered in the work that we do, and are actively taking steps to make sure our processes and practices promote equity for all, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. We encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other marginalized groups.