This is a Full-Time Seasonal position
Full time, Monday – Friday, 5 or more weeks, June 2–August 8, 2025
Training
Online Training must be completed prior to May 17, 2025.
April 30, 2025 – Paperwork Open House Time: TBD
May 17, 2025 – All Staff training: 9am–4pm
May 24, 2025 – Continued training: 9am–4pm
Position Summary
Responsible for creating and teaching a fun summer camp experience for children 10–15 years old while exploring Tampa Bay.
Essential Position Functions
- Maintains camper safety
- Responsible for developing fun activities that correspond to the camp theme
- Mentoring counselors and teen volunteers
- Handles group and individual camper behavior
- Drive a 15 passenger van
- Assists with upkeep and maintenance of travel camp related items.
- Assists with light office work and other duties as assigned
Education Requirements and Technical Skills
- Degree in biology, environmental science, marine science, outdoor education or elementary education
- Formal or Informal teaching experience (1 year of experience)
- Customer service skills preferred
- Certification in First Aid and CPR preferred
- Lifeguarding certification preferred
Competencies
- Customer Service Orientation – Listening and understanding the customer (both internal and external) and anticipation and evaluating the customer’s needs; making the customer’s satisfaction a high priority in all areas of responsibility.
- Teamwork – Supporting, facilitating and participating in activities that promote team effectiveness; demonstrating sensitivity for the feelings and needs of team members and supporting team goals.
- Integrity and trust – Maintaining social, ethical, organizational values and norms: building trust and confidence with the staff, campers and parents; respecting the confidentiality of personal and proprietary information
- Concern for detail – Pays attention to every portion of any task
- Judgment – Deciding on and committing to an action on the examination of the safety and facts at hand; finding creative solutions to situations and opportunities that arise
- Work Standards – Applies high performance standards to all work-related activities
- Initiative – Taking actions to achieve goals; self-starting and proactive; asserting oneself to support others in the achievement of their goals; originating action rather than responding only to the actions of others; anticipating the needs of both internal and external constituencies
Typical Physical Requirements
- Exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity (spending 6 hours outside)
- Standing (6 hours per day)
- Walking (4 hours per day)
- Bending/Stooping – Occasionally
- Reaching about shoulders – Occasionally
- Carrying (up to 30 lbs.) – Occasionally
- Lifting (up to 30 lbs.) – Occasionally
- Using hands for repetitive movements
- Exposure to dust, fumes and gases
- Typing on a computer keyboard
- Viewing a computer screen for short periods
- Coping with demands (stresses that are associated with the job and/or the work environment) so that acceptable levels of performance and overall contribution are maintained
- More than normal talking
Full time, Monday – Friday, 5 or more weeks, June 2–August 8, 2025
CPR and First Aid training (if needed):
TBD
Training
Online Training must be completed prior to May 17, 2025.
April 30, 2025 – Paperwork Open House Time: TBD
May 17, 2025 – All Staff training: 9am–4pm
May 24, 2025 – Continued training: 9am–4pm
