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Office Assistant - Boys Sports and Adventure Camp

Camp Cobbossee for Boys

Camp Cobbossee for Boys

Office Assistant - Boys Sports and Adventure Camp

National
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    THE JOB

    Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from ASAP to August 11th, 2019. For more on what summer camping actually is, see the very bottom of this document!

    Cobbossee is looking for a few talented and motivated Office Assistants (female) to help run our seasonal office at camp. Situated in the middle of our huge, green campus lies our picturesque office. The Cobbossee office is dynamic and social. Your hours work in shifts, allowing you to join in and try everything we have at camp alongside our campers and our counselors. You're not just working in the office, you will be part of our Community.

    This position is also responsible for the upkeep and smooth running of the office and generally contributing to a strong team. You want to belong to an amazing crew and do good work all summer? This is for you.

    THE BENEFITS

    Ever wanted to see New England? Well, in addition to your salary and bonus, Cobbossee will provide you with a travel stipend so you can get out to Maine without spending your own money.

    Room and board is also provided, so you won’t spend any of your own money all summer on living expenses (the food is famously good at Cobbossee. No, really, it is). Further, days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year.

    OTHER POSSIBLE BENEFITS

    We can configure your employment this summer as job training, an internship, or just a really great summer job. Our director, Josh Holland, is a former academic and can make sure your experience is converted into internship credit if that’s what you want. If you are in any child-centered major (teaching, education, coaching) or any sports-related field (sports management, kinesiology, movement, physical-education), this experience can be one of the best-paid internships you can find.

    THE BOTTOM LINE

    “Summer jobs” are often seen as throwaway jobs. Not here. This job is going to challenge you. You are going to give of yourself, have an absolute blast, develop strong friendships with your peers, and really make a difference in young people’s lives. You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. We develop counselors like we develop campers. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.

    For anyone not familiar with the huge world of sleepaway camps in New England, it works as follows:

    All over the northeast each summer, families send their boys and girls up to New England to spend anywhere from a couple of weeks to the entire summer at a sleepaway camp. Sometimes people who are not from the east coast see this as a strange choice, maybe even a mean choice! “Don’t they like their kids?” the question goes. Of course, they do. They love their children and it’s hard for them to be away from them for the time they are at camp. But parents sacrifice time with their kids in the summer because summer camp is really good for young children. Camp (especially longer-term camps of four-to-eight weeks) teaches children independence, self-reliance, and confidence through the teaching of new skills, improving at sports, and living away from home. It isn’t always easy. But it is worth it! Crucial to this process are you, the counselor. You become like a family member to the campers in your cabin. In fact, you will find yourself developing really fast yourself, just so you can be the best counselor and instructor possible for your kids! It is rewarding, challenging, and transformative work to care for campers.

  • Qualifications

    Fluent English.

  • Compensation
    Hourly Minimum wage. Estimated $4675 for the summer. Bed & Board provided on campus.
  • Industry
    Education
  • Fun Fact
    Cobbossee has hosted campers (bar 2020) since 1902.
  • About Us

    Camp Cobbossee is Maine's premier 4 week sports and adventure camp for boys. We hire college age athletes to counsel and coach our boys aging 8-16. Competitive salary, bonus, travel, COVID SAFE Operation, Bed & Board all summer and tons of fun!!!