Summer Mountaineer Experience Junior Counselor

Junior Counselor

The Summer Mountaineer Experience Junior Counselor plays a vital role in supporting camp activities and ensuring a safe, engaging, and positive experience for all campers. This position requires enthusiasm, responsibility, and a commitment to fostering a fun and inclusive environment. Duties and responsibilities include assisting in the supervision of campers and all program activities, supporting group activities by guiding and directing campers in various structured and recreational programs, promoting hands-on learning, self-esteem building, cultural diversity, and creative expression, helping create a semi-structured environment with smooth transitions between activities while allowing for flexibility, serving as a positive role model for campers and fellow junior counselors, encouraging and enforcing camp rules, taking corrective action as necessary to address discipline issues constructively, upholding all program standards, values, and policies to ensure a safe and respectful camp environment, remaining vigilant to safety hazards and being prepared to administer first aid, CPR, or AED as needed, recognizing concussion symptoms and properly documenting all injuries, maintaining focus on camper supervision, ensuring the safety, cleanliness, and organization of camp spaces and equipment, attending required training sessions before and during the camp session, providing outstanding customer service and support to participants, parents, and fellow staff members, and performing other related duties as assigned.

Working conditions for this seasonal, temporary position lasting two weeks from July 6, 2026, to July 17, 2026 (Monday Friday) include work hours of 6.25 hours per day. The work environment involves both indoor and outdoor activities, with exposure to various weather conditions. Compensation is an hourly rate of $19.00 per hour. FLSA status is non-exempt.