Activity Specialist Assistant, Camp Grossman, Summer Day Camp 2026

About the role

Camp Grossman is hiring Activity Specialist Assistants for Summer 2025. You don't need prior teaching experience or advanced skills in group management. Instead, you bring curiosity, energy, enthusiasm for the activity area, and a readiness to learn and support.

Responsibilities

• Assist Specialist in leading creative, safe and engaging age-appropriate activities for all assigned campers with varying interest levels and abilities
• Co-create a community which fosters mutual respect and welcomes the diversity/uniqueness of each person
• Assist Specialist in teaching and developing skills necessary to complete the planned project
• Assist Specialist with the management of supplies, set up, and clean up
• Work in partnership with peers and Camp Leadership to provide a happy, safe, and memorable summer for the children
• Join all staff in the parking lot in the morning and afternoon to welcome the safe arrival and departure of campers
• Role will also include assisting in activities or helping with a Family Day or Night, evening activity (for campers spending the night), or cookout, one or two evenings (after regular camp hours) or Sunday throughout the course of the summer

Requirements

• Must be at least 15 years-old, have completed or are completing 10th grade, and able to get a work permit
• Experience working with children is a plus
• Experience working in and/or attending summer camp is a plus

Skills and Abilities

• Has an interest in the subject area and the ability to learn the necessary skills in order to help teach the campers
• Takes direction well and enjoys helping and learning
• Possesses the ability to create a sense of fun
• Models maturity and reliability with the ability to stay playful – exhibiting flexibility, patience, innovative problem solving and collaboration
• Enjoys working with children
• Has a strong desire to make a difference every day
• Shares Camp’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to work in-person, on-site in Dover, Massachusetts
• Must be able to navigate 70 acres of rugged, uneven and rustic campgrounds independently
• Comfortable working all or most of the day outdoors or inside without air conditioning
• Able to work well in a busy, dynamic and sometimes noisy environment involving multiple tasks and priorities
• Able to lift and carry objects weighing up to 30-40 pounds (boxes of supplies, children’s backpacks etc.)
• Able to sit and kneel; getting down at eye level with children regularly

Benefits

• JCC Greater Boston Perks! Each seasonal employee is eligible for access to JCC Greater Boston's top-class fitness, recreation, and wellness facility in Newton!
• Free or discounted Camp Grossman enrollment for camp employees' children during the weeks worked. Discount prorated based on number of regularly scheduled hours.