Overview
Camp has many, many moving parts, and the Master of Operations (MOP) is just the person to fit them all together. Resources, programming supplies, vans, processes, and people – putting these resources together at the right place and right time makes our summer run smoothly, and the MOP is the spider at the center of that web. As our programs and site need constant upkeep, materials, and time dedicated toward them, the MOP will schedule the right person with the right task, and consistently find areas of camp that need order, function, ease, and smoothness.
Dates & Benefits
Housing and meals are provided. Live in a cabin, yurt or treehouse! Meals are organic, locally-sourced and made fresh every day.
Staff must be at least 19 years old and available to work from May 11 – August 14, 2024. Staff training is 3.5 weeks long, followed by 9 weeks of main season camp. The pay for staff training & the main season is up to $9000 for significant experience, with hourly ($15/hr) and group (around $135/day) work opportunities available to work pre and post season. This work consists of assisting with family camps and school groups before staff training (April and May) and after the summer (August and September).
The depth of training and ongoing professional support you will receive as a Camp Augusta staff member (in the realms of education, personal development and communication, and activity skills) can offer far-reaching benefits for many other parts of your life.
Want to know more? Check out our dedicated page for this position: https://campaugusta.org/mfg-explainer-page/
Qualifications:
Finds fulfillment in working with other staff, their needs and requests, and in an ebb-and-flow environment; is able to be approachable, helpful, and always in problem-solving mode. Often will need to create and communicate innovative solutions to solving a problem that meets a multitude of needs
Embraces joy in the storm: is calm and collected when the best-laid plans need adjusting. Needs to be prepared for change and ready to take action
Love for working with and teaching children
Required Skills:
Detail-oriented while keeping an eye on the big picture
Love bringing order into chaos
Have the depth of emotional and physical stamina to joyfully engage with a community of 95 campers and 60 staff members for 9 weeks in the summer
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Google Suite
Love community, and the idea of supporting the growth, interests, and emotional well-being of the other counselors and staff within your village, as well as the camp-wide community
About Camp Augusta
When in your life has your work asked you to have an oatmeal fight, transform into a dragon, search your soul and encourage soul searching for others? Working at Augusta is an experience unlike any other. Our days are beautiful, demanding, inspiring, educational, hilarious, frustrating, silly, surprising, intimate, active and most importantly, full of opportunity. Our staff have ample opportunities to develop themselves personally and professionally. In our 3.5 week staff training and throughout the summer, staff can learn and practice progressive models of child development and counseling, communication techniques like clean communication and Nonviolent Communication, diverse leadership styles as well as how to live in a tight-knit community. Come with an open-mind, a trusting-heart and plenty of ambition, and leave with a soul on fire!
Are you up for the challenge? 🙂
