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
- Attend all monthly leadership webinar 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 Counselors.
- Develop a partnership with Servant Staff in mentoring counselors.
- Help 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.
- Aid Summer Coordinator with facilitating 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
- Attend all monthly leadership webinars 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 Counselors and lead informal check-ins.
- Help hold counselors accountable to job duties.
- 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
- Attend all monthly leadership webinar 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 contracts.
- 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.
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
View full job description here.
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
- 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 backboard
View full job description here.
Poiema Coordinator
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Strategic Planning
- Assist in short and long-range strategic planning for summer camp programs and activities.
- Set short and long-range summer camp goals and hold staff accountable to reaching those goals.
- Policy & Procedures
- Responsible for helping develop and implement summer camp policies and procedures consistent with mission, strategic plans, and operational goals.
- Implement staff disciplinary action as part of the tiered-team with head counselors.
- Financial Management
- Monitor certain summer camp related expenses to ensure we stay within the approved budget.
- Staffing
- Oversee the day to day operations of all direct reports (poiema counselors, poiema head counselors) and hold summer staff accountable to job duties based on job descriptions.
- Along with Summer Coordinator, conduct weekly summer staff meetings
- Along with Summer Coordinator, evaluate direct reports based on job descriptions and conduct performance reviews as needed.
- Summer Camp
- Poiema Coordinator is expected to work in conjunction with Summer Coordinator and Summer Office Assistant in order to keep up with all necessary office tasks.
- Responsible for overseeing summer schedule to stay on time and flowing appropriately
- Communicate any special needs or delegations to appropriate staff
- Help manage quality of staff implementation of camper discipline system and stay appraised of camper behavioral issues; help Poiema Head Counselors with camper discipline as needed
- Assist in developing and enforcing facility stewardship plans for campers and counselors.
*Pay ranges from $300-$400/week based on position.
For any questions, contact our Summer Coordinator at summercoordinator@campofthehills.org
