Overnight Camps
Summer Staff for overnight camps specifically serve campers ages 8-18 coming from diverse, low-income, and underserved backgrounds. The summer staff’s goal is to be a positive role model for campers, provide motivation and suggestions for overcoming challenges, and help spiritually mentor their relationship with God.
Poiema Program
Poiema Staff specifically serves highschoolers’ ages 15-18 who are seeking to have an opportunity to grow spiritually while playing an integral role of service to summer camp at Camp of the Hills. Poiema camp sessions are two weeks long and provide an enriching opportunity for staff to learn and grow through serving others and diving deeper into discipleship study.
Day Camp
Summer Staff for day camps specifically serves children ages 4-8 years old who cannot yet participate in our Overnight Summer Camp Program due to age. A typical day of Day Camp includes TimberNook experiences, lunch, devotional & worship, crafts, snacks, and activities such as slingshot, archery, low ropes, canoeing, mud construction, and pavilion games.
Summer Dates
Summer Positions Available
Cabin Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Build and foster a positive relationship with campers, especially those within your assigned cabin
- Teach campers about God through bible studies, worship times, and personal example
- Collaborate with co-counselors, full-time staff, and others to manage camp activities
- Display a positive example for campers through words and actions
- Implement point system as taught by staff, in order to appropriately support campers during behavioral interactions
View full job description here.
Poiema Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Build and foster a positive relationship with Poiema campers
- Work alongside Poiema campers as they serve camp
- Teach campers about God through bible studies, worship times, and personal example
- Collaborate with co-counselors, full-time staff, and others to manage camp activities
- Display a positive example for campers through words and actions
- Implement strike system as taught by staff, in order to appropriately support campers during behavioral interactions
View full job description here.
Day Camp Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Build and foster a positive relationship with campers
- Teach campers about God through bible studies, worship times, and personal example
- Collaborate with co-counselors, head counselors, and Day Camp Coordinator to manage camp activities
- Display a positive example for campers through words and actions
- Implement discipline system as taught by staff, in order to appropriately support campers during behavioral interactions
View full job description here.
Head Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
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- Actively engage in all leadership opportunities building up to summer.
- Help plan what needs to be covered in summer weekly meetings.
- Help maintain cleanliness and organization of camp activities.
- Build relationships with Staff.
- Plan and facilitate opportunities for staff to bond.
- Lead counselor check-ins.
- Help hold counselors accountable to job duties.
- Help set the pace and maintain accountability for the schedule with counselors.
- Aid Summer Coordinator with recruiting and training Summer Camp Counselors.
- Facilitate camper contracts.
- Assist in developing and enforcing facility stewardship.
- Help MC various aspects of the day-to-day schedule.
- Lead one weekly evening devotional during the second half of summer.
View full job description here.
Poiema Head Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
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- Attend all monthly leadership webinars building up to summer.
- Actively engage in all leadership opportunities building up to summer.
- Help plan what needs to be covered in summer weekly meetings.
- Help maintain cleanliness and organization of camp activities.
- Build relationships with Poiema counselors and lead informal check-ins.
- Help hold counselors accountable to job duties.
- Plan and facilitate opportunities for staff to bond.
- Help set the pace and maintain accountability for the schedule with counselors.
- Aid Poiema Coordinator with recruiting and training Counselors.
- Aid Poiema Coordinator with facilitating camper disciplinary action.
- Assist in developing and enforcing facility stewardship.
- Help direct various aspects of the day-to-day schedule.
- Work with coordinator to plan outlines for evening bible studies, and facilitate morning bible studies.
View full job description here.
Day Camp Head Counselor
Primary duties and responsibilities
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- Attend all monthly leadership webinar building up to summer.
- Actively engage in all leadership opportunities building up to summer.
- Help plan what needs to be covered in weekly meetings during summer.
- Help maintain cleanliness and organization of camp activities.
- Build relationships with Counselors and Campers.
- Develop a partnership with Day Camp Coordinator in mentoring Day Camp Counselors.
- Help lead Day Camp Counselor check-ins.
- Help hold Day Camp Counselors accountable to job duties.
- Help set the pace and maintain accountability for the schedule with counselors.
- Aid Day Camp Coordinator with recruiting and training Summer Camp Counselors.
- Aid Day Camp Coordinator with facilitating camper discipline.
- Assist in developing and enforcing facility stewardship.
- Help MC various aspects of the day-to-day schedule.
- Lead & oversee daily devotionals & Christ connections during activities
View full job description here.
Lifeguard
Primary duties and responsibilities:
- Maintain constant surveillance
- Perform rescues
- Administering first aid or CPR
- Ensuring procedures are strictly enforced
- Assist Waterfront Coordinator to administer all camper swimming ability tests
- Will not engage in any personal recreational swimming or other waterfront activities while on duty
- Ensure waterfront area is safe and maintained before and after activities
- Daily check conditions of life jackets, canoes/kayaks and paddles
- Daily check the condition of rescue buoys, lifeguard stands and backboards
View full job description here.
Office Assistant
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Answer phones, respond to emails, and greet visitors in a professional and friendly manner
- Assist with camper check-in/check-out processes
- Maintain accurate camper and staff records
- Manage incoming and outgoing mail and packages
- Support the office administrator with scheduling, filing, copying, and data entry
- Help with office inventory tracking and supply ordering
- Communicate effectively with staff and visitors
- Maintain confidentiality
- Ensure a safe and organized office environment
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Nurse Assistant
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Medication Administration
- Administer camper prescription medication daily
- Administer over the counter medication to counselors and campers when necessary
- Be sure all medication is properly labeled and not expired
- Medical Emergencies
- Respond to emergencies in a timely manner
- Administer appropriate medical aid as needed
- Contact local emergency responders when necessary
- Medical non-emergencies
- Provide first aid
- Assess injuries and illnesses
- Assess the need for a physician’s evaluation
- Keep the clinic clean and well stocked with supplies
- Assist in developing and stocking First Aid Kits
- Communication
- Communicate with camp director and staff about counselor and camper health issues
- Communicate with sponsors about camper injuries and illnesses
- Be a resource for counselors with camper problems from bedwetting to homesickness
- Assist in the inventory of necessary medical supplies and equipment
- Record Keeping
- Maintain the legal requirements of running a clinic
- Keep proper documentation and logs, functioning within your scope of care
- Medication Administration Records
- Maintain medical information in a private and confidential manner
View full job description here.
Media Assistant
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Running screens for Worship & Devo sessions
- Taking photos consistently throughout the week
- Taking videos consistently throughout the week
- Writing/editing captions for social media posts
- Engage with comments and messages on social media platforms
- Weekly Camp photo albums
- Weekly Camp video
- End of Summer Video (campers)
- End of Summer Video (Camp Staff)
- Day Camp Program weekly photos, videos, albums, and promo.
View full job description here.
Maintenance Assistant
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Weedeating/Mowing
- Light plumbing (toilets, sinks, showers)
- AC Filter checks
- Shop & equipment organization
- Wagon rides for Campers
- Driving trailers & tractors
- Pool Maintenance
- Cart Maintenance
- Other jobs to be determined as needed
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Activity Coordinator
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Review & Update activity plans for all Camp SICs & Evening Activities to include purpose, rules, materials, steps, & Christ connections.
- Keep track of all SIC/Evening Activity materials, update inventory lists, and reorder items as needed and in accordance to the budget.
- Help guide and direct Poiema Program in setting up of evening activities and running evening events
- Plan Counselor Bonding Activities during Training Week and on Weekends alongside the Summer Discipleship Coordinator
View full job description here.
Waterfront Coordinator
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Responsible for all waterfront supervision procedures and ensuring procedures are strictly enforced
- Oversee all camper swimming ability tests
- Will not engage in any personal recreational swimming or other waterfront activities while on duty
- Pool cleaning and maintenance
- Ensure waterfront area is safe and maintained before and after activities
- Daily check conditions of life jackets, canoes/kayaks and paddles
- Daily check the condition of rescue buoys, lifeguard stands, and backboards
- Lead weekly staff training sessions
View full job description here.
Discipleship Coordinator
Primary duties and responsibilities
Staff Development:
- Build positive relationships & rapport with summer staff to help equip them for Summer
- Help develop content for summer staff meetings (TW, & Weekly Meetings throughout summer)
- Train Summer Staff in best practices for appropriately facilitating cabin bible studies, christ connections, & spiritual conversations with their campers.
- General support to Summer Coordinator (ie spiritual/relational aspects of staffing)
Camp Programming:
- Teach campers about God’s love through bible studies, worship times, and personal example
- Lead the Evening Worship & Devo (plans & materials)
- Lead the Reenactment (updates to script, assignment of roles, manage practices & rehearsals, weekly evaluations and modifications, costumes, etc)
- Review the Poiema Coordinator’s & Day Camp Coordinator’s spiritual content plans to assure it is aligned with Camp theme, mission, and methods.
Personal Example: Be a positive example for campers & staff through both words and actions
- Maintain healthy boundaries with campers & staff
- Maintain personal spiritual disciplines leading up to and throughout summer
- Maintain consistent mentorship times with camp mentors for personal emotional/spiritual accountability leading up to and throughout summer
View full job description here.
*Pay ranges from $300-$400/week based on position.
For any questions, contact our Summer Coordinator at brayden@campofthehills.org
