Afterschool Lead Counselor

Responsibilities

• Leads and supervises assigned age groups.
• Acts as liaison between the Camp Supervisor, Camp Counselors, participants, and parents.
• Maintains, understands, and adheres to camper records to ensure health/safety/allergy/behavior/etc. needs are followed per parent/guardian requests.
• Responsible for group counts, ensuring adherence to camp ratio and participant accountability.
• Oversees and maintains camper behavior, discipline, and conduct within the group to ensure safety of participants.
• Responsible for accurate attendance/tracking of assigned groups throughout the camp operations including camp group time and field trips.
• Prepares daily activities and ensures groups have materials and instructions needed for successful leadership; adapts activities, games and events to participants age, physical ability, and interests.
• Responsible for group activity and curriculum planning and execution.
• Leads camp counselors and campers in daily activities.
• Works cooperatively with other team members to meet program goals and assists with training programs for camp counselors.
• Responsible for checking facilities, equipment and reporting any issues to the Camp Supervisor.
• Affords assistance with daily inventory of all equipment, office or cleaning supplies, and snack needed.
• Ensures camper sign in/sign out process and verification of approved pick up contact.
• Makes modifications to activities, games, and events to accommodate individuals with a variety of disabilities.
• Affords assistance with maintaining records, including sign in sheets, information forms and reports.
• Directs incidents to Camp Supervisor, reports problems and exercises thoroughness and caution in maintaining maximum safety for all participant and camp team members.
• Ensures safe and proper use of group equipment and materials.

Requirements

• Must be 17 years or older with 1 years of related work experience.
• Must possess current First Aid and CPR certification or ability to obtain during training.
• Preference for a valid Texas driver’s license.