Youth Recreation Counselor

Responsibilities

• Help set-up, clean-up and take down tables and chairs for the summer camp program.
• Aid the camp counselors in special projects, such as arts & crafts, setting out gym equipment and putting equipment away.
• Aid counselors in daily group activities for campers.
• Aid with campers transitioning including Morning greeting (Parent Drop off / pick up); field trips; room transitions etc.
• Aid with lunch, snack times (set up, break down, and cleanliness of the facility).
• Aid with concessions transactions.
• Provide necessary activity set up including supplies, material, equipment, and/or water.
• Perform light clerical duties including attendance rolls, answering phones, or providing correct information.
• Perform light custodian duties.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Make sound judgment.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Follow verbal and written instructions.
• Likely and willing to work with children.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be 14 - 18 years of age.
• Must be a student currently enrolled in school.
• Must be a resident of the City of Fort Myers.
• Must meet the Department of Children and Families (DCF) requirements and inspections when assigned to working with Youth.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceive attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Fingering – pick, pinch, type, work with fingers rather than hand.
• Grasping – apply pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – pick, hold, or work with whole hand.
• Lifting – raise objects from lower to higher position, move objects side to side, use upper extremities, back.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling – use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extend hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – express ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bend body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1 – express ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 – shout to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 2 – color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 – determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
• Visual Acuity 4 – operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
• Visual Acuity 5 – close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking – on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

Work Environment

• Contact with internal and external customers, vendors, outside agencies, and the general public.