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Summer Operations Intern

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Galileo Camps

Summer Operations Intern

Palo Alto, CA
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Are you a college or high school student ready to demonstrate your skill in a job that helps you gain great experience? Love doing whatever it takes, and performing a variety of tasks? Want the best summer job? Ever?

    Galileo would not function without Summer Interns. Their ability to switch focus from week to week, day to day, hour to hour and sometimes minute to minute is critical to the successful operation of camp. This role requires a positive, solution-oriented attitude, initiative, flexibility, and exceptional service mentality.

    ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Support all aspects of camp, especially behind-the-scenes camp operations and programming. Please note, most Summer Interns spent the vast majority of their time on operations and administrative tasks, as opposed to hands-on working with campers
    • Work closely with camp leadership (Camp Director, Operations Coordinator, and/or Program Coordinators) to complete various administrative duties throughout the day and week
    • Provide leadership, energy and camp spirit for campers, constantly assessing group dynamics and the needs of individual campers
    • Cover for Summer Camp Counselors/Assistant Instructors during daily ten-minute breaks, fulfilling their role while they are out
    • Assist in the classroom, working with campers individually and in small groups
    • Set, work toward, and achieve measurable professional development goals
    • Support camper check-in and check-out processes
    • Provide excellent customer service to families by communicating with a positive, professional and fun attitude
    • Assist with daily set up and clean up of camp and assist Instructors with lesson preparation
    • Support morning and afternoon extended care program including check in, check out, and leading camper activities
    • Support setup of, contribute to, and participate in daily opening and closing ceremonies, all-camp activities, and snack/lunch supervision and programming
  • Qualifications

    EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION Upper-level high school student, college student or graduate Demonstrated leadership experience Experience working with kids or in a camp setting a plus Sixteen years old by your camp\u2019s first day of operation, with a work permit valid through August

  • Compensation
    Summer Interns are compensated at a regular hourly rate of $9.50-12.00 per hour
  • Industry
    Education
  • About Us

    Founded in 2002, Galileo has grown to over 100 awe-inspiring summer camp programs throughout the Bay Area, SoCal, and Chicagoland, for which we hire close to 3,000 summer staff each year. Our summer staff teams are a diverse community of leaders—the best and brightest current and aspiring educators, college students, artists, engineers, and scientists who can't wait to dazzle and inspire thousands of Galileo campers for 2-8 weeks each summer.