Cabin Leader

Salvation Army Careers • Estes Park, CO

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Cabin Leader is a temporary, full-time, exempt position responsible for attending and participating in evening programs and spiritual activities, maintaining cleanliness in personal living quarters, and assisting with camper check-in/check-out and camp clean-up. This role involves enforcing camp policies, ensuring safety, coordinating program components, leading campers in daily activities and chores, guiding devotion times, managing camper behavior, and participating in all-camp activities. The Cabin Leader is also responsible for the health and well-being of themselves and their assigned campers, including personal hygiene and escorting campers to the nurse as needed. The position requires a commitment to The Salvation Army's mission and a positive attitude.

Requirements

• Personal relationship and commitment to Jesus Christ.
• 18+ years of age.
• Current First Aid and CPR certification (may be obtained on site).
• Experience providing childcare and supervision.
• Ability to use positive behavior management techniques with campers.
• Ability to adapt to difficult situations with a sense of maturity and safety.
• Maintain a high standard of Christian personal living and behaviors.
• Be supportive of The Salvation Army’s mission.
• Ability to reflect and model the high standards of The Salvation Army.
• Ability to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist on an intermittent or continuous basis.
• Ability to grasp, push, pull, and reach overhead.
• Ability to operate telephone.
• Ability to lift to 25 pounds.
• Ability to access and produce information from the computer.
• Ability to understand written information.
• Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Nice To Haves

• Love being with children.

Responsibilities

• Attend and participate in evening programs and spiritual activities.
• Maintain a standard of cleanliness in personal grooming and living quarters.
• Assist with the clean-up of the total camp at the end of each session and at the conclusion of the summer.
• Assist with Camper check-in and check-out.
• Enforce, and abide by, all camp policies and procedures.
• Maintain the utmost level of safety for staff and campers at all times.
• Practice and enforce all camp safety regulations and emergency procedures.
• Ensure compliance with American Camping Association standards of safety and programmatic conduct.
• Coordinate and implement all program components relative to the daily schedule in a timely fashion.
• Attend trainings and weekly staff meetings.
• Lead assigned campers in daily camp activities.
• Participate with and guide cabin group in morning, afternoon, and evening activities throughout the week.
• Participate with and guide cabin group in all opening and closing activities.
• Lead campers in camp chores, including daily cabin clean up, sweeping, making beds, hanging wet clothing, meal clean up, washing dishes, dumping trash, wiping down tables, and weekly group capers.
• Lead and participate in group devotion times, activity discussions, and praise and worship.
• Be present and on time for morning devotion (quiet time).
• Plan and lead group devotions daily.
• Manage camper behavior, including proactive measures to keep positive group interaction and addressing behavior that needs management.
• Maintain group control at specialized group activities.
• Participate in “all-camp” activities and large group activities, including Monday group games, and Monday and Friday camp fires.
• Be responsible for the health and well-being of self and assigned campers.
• Allow campers time to take care of personal hygiene including, showers, brushing teeth, etc.
• Escort campers to the nurse for daily medications.
• Escort campers to the nurse to treat injuries or illness outside of your level of care or training.
• Perform all other duties and roles assigned.
• Comply with all reasonable requests for the smooth operation of the camp.
• Have fun.
• Ask for help.
• Remember that God is in control.
• Let God’s love be evident in your actions.

Benefits

• Sick leave benefit – 1 day per month, 12 sick days per year (accrual and availability begins at hire; sick time accrual is pro-rated for part-time hours.)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed