Camp Rio Crew - IDEA Camp Rio (Immediate Opening)

About the role

The Camp Crew member will be responsible for maintaining a clean, safe, sustainable, high quality facility by working with the camp staff to enhance the camp environment and exemplify IDEA's commitment to excellence. This position performs a variety of responsibilities including carpentry, small machine maintenance and repair, event set up and tear down, wildlife management, painting, and physical support of the 85 acre camp property.

Accountabilities

• Operate a clean and functional maintenance space that guarantees an enhanced learning environment
• Maintain the safe operating standard of all equipment
• Clean the shop weekly
• Maintain all areas of camp to standards outlined in daily duty chart
• Conduct regular sweeps of buildings and activity areas making notes of where we can improve
• Conduct regular sweeps of trails and teambuilding areas noting anything that needs attention
• Respond to Zendesk tickets in a timely manner
• Keep all buildings in safe operating condition
• Operate and maintain camp tools safely
• Ensure that all trails are clear of debris and overgrowth
• Keep maintenance area neat and clean at all times
• Responsible for locking facility areas at the end of the day
• Immediately report any malfunctioning or broken tool, equipment, or part of the facility
• 90% of SafeSchools training is done before the end of the fiscal year
• Always use professional language in front of other staff and students
• Maintain a positive attitude as a role model for campers
• Serve as a substitute when needed
• Learn the job of a custodian
• Be available when asked to help with custodial duties
• Remain flexible to be able to step in as needed
• Spread mulch on trails and roadways as needed
• Move camp furniture to set up for activities and events
• Build camp furniture/items as needed for activity areas
• Work on additional projects as deemed necessary by the Operations Manager
• Ability to be at work every day
• No more than 5 tardy arrivals and always punctual
• Ability and availability to work longer hours as needed to meet the mission goal
• Capable of adapting to the camps' ever changing needs by demonstrating determination to meet its needs

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes

We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Competencies

• Instill respect for environment, self, and others
• Reinforce IDEA's mission of College for All Students
• Maintain high levels of health and safety in all activities for campers and staff
• Participate in development and implementation of program activities within the mission and outcomes
• Willingness to learn and teach a variety of disciplines to varying grade levels
• Be a role model to campers and staff in both attitude and behavior
• Openness to observation and critical feedback
• Work duties on camp including maintenance and cleaning duties as assigned
• Be on time to all scheduled trainings and work days
• Excitement about working for a school system that is changing the status quo of education in Texas
• Responsible for equipment maintenance and supplies for assigned activity areas
• Flexibility handling changes in schedules and activities as required to maintain a high performing program

Qualifications

Experience

• Working knowledge of power tools and hand tools is preferred
• Direct work with school age children preferred
• Custodial experience is preferred

Knowledge and Skills

• Proven ability to work well with a team, as well as be counted on to complete individual tasks as necessary
• Proven ability to work well with all age levels (campers ages 6-17 and adults)