2024 Beyond Camp Summer Counselor, Akron Campus
Julie Billiart Schools
- Akron, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide individualized interventions for up to 9 campers with learning challenges
- Participate in staff meetings, conferences, and other required camp activities
- Organize and lead a variety of small group activities each week. Activities may include crafts, nature, songs, games, swimming, archery, zip lining, trampoline park, etc.
- Know, enforce, and follow all safety guidelines associated with the camp
- Assist with preparation of the classroom or designated area for instruction
- Prepare for role in the daily lesson plans
- Implement intervention plans
- Create visuals or individualized plans as assigned
- Collect data
- Help guide and mentor Junior Counselors to have a deeper understanding of leadership and counseling skills
- Meet with supervising teacher and camp directors regularly for coaching and feedback
- Skilled in differentiating education
- Experience providing strategies for improved social and behavioral outcomes in children
- Ability to develop social and behavioral interventions
- Excellent skills in both verbal and written communication
- Ability to work both independently or within a team
- Proficient communicating with parents and colleagues
- Flexible thinker able to make adjustments in the moment
- Enthusiastic, driven, and independent
- Minimum of high school diploma
- Volunteer or paid experience working with children in group setting
- Experience working with students with learning challenges preferred
- Experience working in a camp setting preferred
- This position requires being indoors and outdoors, sometimes exposed to weather characteristic of the region.
- May be exposed to communicable diseases
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak, stand, talk, walk, sit, see, and hear (corrected or uncorrected).
- The employee is occasionally required to climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- The employee must be physically able to manage students of varying weight and sizes.