Summer Camp Teacher (Internal Candidates Only)

Job Description

Job Description

THE POSITION

The Summer Camp Teacher is directly accountable to the Site Director and to the Center for Excellence Director. The Summer Camp Teacher is responsible for providing leadership, oversight and support to the Chaminade Center for Excellence Summer Program while ensuring the overall well-being and safety of the campers and the activities in the program.

Position Summary

Camp teacher responsibilities:

• Develops innovative, creative, and fun programming with clear goals that are adaptable and adjustable based on needs of children each week.
• Collaborates with summer camp teachers to plan, develop, facilitate, and lead a variety of activities and games for a specific age group each week.
• Manage and fully supervise campers, Camp Counselors, and all activities.
• Be responsible in assisting counselors with disciplinary issues when needed. Model and enforce appropriate positive discipline techniques as established by the policies of the Center for Excellence
• Responsible to communicate with parents when needed.
• Become knowledgeable in camp information and procedures.
• Create a safe, nurturing, and fun environment for campers and staff
• Works with the Site Director to secure substitutes in the event of illness or other emergencies.

Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communication with all levels including staff and parents.
• Ability to problem solve and make decisions that adhere to the purpose, mission and goals of the Chaminade Center for Excellence.
• Ability to relate to children and develop professional, positive relationships with youth.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as a role model and take initiative to identify potential risk factors and take measures to reduce them.

Salary

This is a nonexempt position and the base hourly wage range will be $25.00 per hour.

How to Apply:

Applications are only accepted though our online application system at: Applicants will be asked to upload a resume and cover letter before completing their online application.

Please call the Human Resources office at View phone number on jobswipe.net if you require assistance or accommodation in order to complete the application process.

About Chaminade

Chaminade is an independent co-educational Catholic school serving approximately 2,000 students in grades 6-12 at our two beautiful campuses located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. One of the best things about Chaminade is our strong sense of family. We work together, play together, and pray together. We are a family, a community committed to the success and well-being of each and every student.

Chaminade collaborates with the families it serves to provide a challenging, Catholic education for young men and women in the Marianist tradition. This tradition, grounded in the values of Jesus, educates the whole person while emphasizing family spirit in a nurturing, caring environment, attentive to the moral, spiritual and religious development of students. Chaminade prepares college-bound students throughout their middle and high school years in a rigorous program of academic excellence. Students from a diversity of cultural, religious and economic backgrounds come together for an active and varied curricular and extracurricular program.

The mission of Chaminade College Preparatory is to form morally aware and academically capable people to be outstanding contributors to the future.

Chaminade's mission and culture are deeply rooted in the five Characteristics of Marianist Education which are:

• Educate for Formation in Faith
• Provide an Integral Quality Education
• Educate in Family Spirit
• Educate for Service, Justice, and Peace
• Educate for Adaptation and Change.

For more information about Chaminade, visit our website at:

Equal Employment Opportunity

Chaminade College Preparatory is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, or genetic information, or other basis protected by law for employment in a Catholic school. Applicants who need an accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment and hiring process should contact the human resources department in order to discuss reasonable accommodation.