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Adventure Instructor / Cabin Counselor

Camp Cobbossee for Boys

Camp Cobbossee for Boys

Adventure Instructor / Cabin Counselor

National
Part Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    THE JOB

    Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 9th to August 14th, 2021. For more on what summer camping actually is, see the very bottom of this document! Check out our short Sports trailer here: https://vimeo.com/250981045 Cobbossee is looking for a few talented and motivated Adventure Instructors / Counselors to join the Adventure team this summer. This involves Climbing, Archery, Mountain Biking, Fire Building, Hatchet Throwing and Camping. If you have experience taking part in or teaching any of these activities, this could be the job for you.

    The Cobbossee Adventure team runs alongside the Sport & Waterfront programs of Cobbossee. It is here our boys Climb, Bike and Shoot all summer long, developing their mental resilience and adventure knowledge through personal and group experiences.

    Climbing: If you haven’t got experience teaching these activities, don’t worry. We offer a three-day certification course in Belaying and then provide an extra three days training on our equipment as a team. Our systems are all closed and have relatively simple equipment associated with it. This means you only have to learn the basics and become proficient at this. If you’re new to climbing, this job will take those basics and build you up to a proficient instructor.

    Archery: We also have a third party instructor take you through a three day instructor training course to ensure safe range and group management before you get time understanding Cobbossee’s Adventure curriculum. Mountain Biking Orientation focuses on familiarity with our network of trails and obstacles throughout our woodland as well as Emergency Action Plans and safety Radio practices.

    The Adventure Team is made up of six ropes staff, two mountain bikers and two archers. We are a unit who operate all of the adventure activities at camp under the Head and Assistant Head of Adventure. We train on how to instruct and manage all of these activities so you can be proficient and safe. Alongside the activity role in the day a Climbing Instructor/Counselor lives in a bunk with (and cares for!) a set of campers and works at their activity area during the day, teaching their passion to a range of age groups and skill sets, all under the watchful eye of our Adventure program head Jonesy. This position is also responsible for the upkeep of the equipment, inter-camp competitions and generally contributing to a strong team. You want to belong to an amazing crew and do good work all summer? The Adventure team 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, Covid testing, PPE and best practice training will all be covered by the camp. You will be able to live, work and enjoy yourself in our safe bubble on site.

    Room and board is also provided all summer, so you won’t spend any of your own money 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, ask Jonesy about our Internship specifications. 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, in person, interacting with our community without social distancing in your cohort.

    THE BOTTOM LINE

    “Summer jobs” are often seen as throwaway jobs. Not here. This job is going to challenge you. Get you out of your room or home where you’ve spent the past year. 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.

    WHAT TO DO NEXT

    You should immediately head to https://www.campcobbossee.com/experience/#work and apply online. Our Staffing Director, Matt “Jonesy” Jones will be in touch very quickly. You can also call us at 800-473-6104 if you have more questions.

    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 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.

  • Benefits

    Competitive Salary + Bonus + Travel Allowance. Wifi, Transport, full Bed & Board all summer. Covid testing and precautions provided.

  • 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!!!