Camp Mentor
(Full-Time and Part-Time Positions Available)
Your Mission
As a Camp Mentor, you’ll be the guide, role model, and cheerleader for our young heroes. Through your empathetic approach, boundless energy, and love for fun, you’ll build camaraderie with your fellow mentors, and help every hero explore and realize their unique potential, ensuring they rise, shine, and thrive.
About RISE Day Camp
At Rise Day Camp, every child is a hero and embarks on a transformative hero’s journey when they come to our camp. Our core mission revolves around cultivating good character and leadership skills, nurturing curiosity, and promoting play-based exploration in a fun, nurturing environment.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Champion Empathy: Connect with each camper, understanding their unique personalities, challenges, and dreams.
Radiate Fun Energy: Be the spark that ignites enthusiasm, ensuring each day at camp is memorable, joyous, and dynamic.
Embody Our Core Values: Infuse every interaction, game, and activity with our camp’s philosophy, championing leadership, cultivating curiosity, and strengthening resilience.
Safety First: Ensure every child’s safety and well-being, always maintaining a vigilant and proactive approach.
Team Collaboration: Work closely with fellow counselors and camp staff to create an enriching, cohesive camp experience.
Ideal Candidate:
- Has a growth mindset.
- Committed to consistently showing up for our heroes and your team.
- Deeply passionate about working with kids and making a positive impact on their lives.
- Leads by example.
- Emanates empathy, patience, and a genuinely upbeat attitude.
- Previous experience in youth guidance, education, or recreational activities is a plus.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Eager to learn, adapt, and infuse creativity and fun into camp activities.
Requirements:
- Must be 18 or older
High School Diploma or GED
Experience in a day camp, child and youth development, education or comparable setting, preferred
CPR/AED, and First Aid Certification, must include Adult and Child/Infant, obtained within 30 days of hire and must be from one of the following certifying organizations:
American Red Cross
American Heart Association
American Safety & Health Institute
Background Check
Benefits:
- Work in a highly rewarding environment, directly impacting the lives of young heroes.
- Opportunity to shape and grow with Rise Day Camp as we continue to expand and elevate our offerings.
- Competitive compensation
- Ability to enroll your own children in RISE day camp at a discounted rate
Compensation Range:
$17 – $19/hr
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Become a mentor for our campers and make an impact. If you have the heart, energy, and commitment we’re looking for, then join our mission and help us inspire their hero’s journey and elevate every child’s camp experience!
If you’re ready to rise to the challenge, we can’t wait to meet you!