Assistant Camp Manager
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
Application Deadline:
March 1, 2025
March 1, 2025
Camp Urban Adamah is an immersive camp experience of land-based Judaism, music, food justice, community building, and most importantly fun! Situated on our urban farm in Northwest Berkeley, Camp Urban Adamah offers a space for children to thrive, connect with nature and each other, and deepen their natural curiosity—all within a vibrant, loving, and inclusive Jewish community. Our counselors are skilled, enthusiastic folks who help facilitate joyful, exciting, and playful experiences for small groups of campers. Camp runs for 9 weeks for kids in preschool through 9th grade.
About The Role
The Assistant Camp Manager provides programmatic, educational, and behavioral support to campers and staff members throughout the day. The Assistant Camp Manager is responsible for co-facilitating staff training along with the Camp & Educational Programs Manager and cultivating a positive camp culture among campers and staff.
RESPONSIBILITIES
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Camp Preparation: This position requires a few days of onboarding in the months leading up to camp, and begins full time two weeks prior to the start of camp so that the Assistant Camp Manager can help with preparing for the summer. Urban Adamah will train the Assistant Camp Manager in our pedagogy, camp culture, music, farm jobs, and camp activities. Camp preparation includes gathering materials, reviewing schedules, reviewing camp systems and protocols, becoming familiar with the campus, preparing for staff training, and more.
- Supervise and Mentor Staff: Along with the Camp Manager, the Assistant Camp Manager is responsible for supervising a staff of 12–25 educators. With guidance from the Camp Manager, the Assistant Camp Manager will give timely and constructive feedback to camp staff. This is done through informal daily check-ins and weekly formal check-ins.
- Conduct Staff Meetings: The Assistant Camp Manager will co-facilitate daily staff meetings along with the Camp Manager. The Assistant Camp Manager will identify issues that need to be addressed among the staff, achievements to celebrate, and ways to promote a healthy and fun environment; build an agenda in collaboration with the Camp Manager in a timely manner; and prepare necessary materials for staff meetings accordingly.
- Provide Support to Camp Manager, Camp Staff, and Campers: Throughout the camp day, the Assistant Camp Manager is on-call to assist in any way needed. This may include attending to a sick or injured camper, filling in for a sick counselor, intervening in a behavioral issue with a camper or a group of campers, or providing additional supervision.
- Quality Assessment: Throughout the day, the Assistant Camp Manager should be assessing our programs. The Assistant Camp Manager should work with camp staff to ensure they are meeting our pedagogical goals, provide feedback and suggestions on how staff can improve their group facilitation and leadership, and make changes to the schedule to meet camp’s needs.
- Create Culture of Inclusion: Assistant Camp Manager is responsible for creating a culture of inclusion. This includes highlighting campers' unique character, strength, and contributions to the camp community. The Assistant Camp Manager will work with counselors to identify moments of engagement and leadership opportunities for all campers within a group.
- Behavior Management: The Assistant Camp Manager will work with the Camp Manager, staff members, and campers’ parents/caretakers to best support campers of all needs. Urban Adamah welcomes a diversity of campers, including those who are neurodivergent, and the Assistant Camp Manager will work with individual campers to make camp an accessible place for them.
About You
We are open to applicants with varying levels and types of experience, provided that the applicant displays the skills required to successfully execute the job described above. You might be a good fit if:
- You have a love of children and experience working with children
- You are experienced in early childhood education
- You have experience supervising and managing a team
- You enjoy working with families, in easy and difficult situations
- You are enthusiastic, creative, and sometimes even a little silly
- You are good at taking in feedback, responding to multiple needs, and receiving directions
- You enjoy being flexible and are generally willing to try new things
- You are excited about maintaining a positive team attitude throughout the full session
- You have a desire to explore and share Jewish environmental wisdom and spirituality (Jewish background/knowledge is not necessary)
Additional Details
DATES AND TIMES
May 26 – June 3: Onboarding and Camp Prep (9am–5pm)
June 4 – June 6: Camp Staff Training (9am–5pm)
June 9 – August 15: Camp Sessions
SUPERVISION
The Assistant Camp Manager is supervised by the Camp Manager.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by an employee in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities:
COMPENSATION
The Assistant Camp Manager will be paid $26/hour. This is a temporary seasonal position that conforms to the legal requirements of such positions; as such it is not bound by overtime pay requirements and does not include any benefits.
May 26 – June 3: Onboarding and Camp Prep (9am–5pm)
June 4 – June 6: Camp Staff Training (9am–5pm)
June 9 – August 15: Camp Sessions
- Session 1 | June 9–20
- Session 2 | June 23–July 3
- Session 3 | July 7–25
- Session 4 | July 28–August 8
- Session 5 | August 11–15
SUPERVISION
The Assistant Camp Manager is supervised by the Camp Manager.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by an employee in this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities:
- Standing and walking for several hours, as well as sitting, squatting, crawling, climbing, and lifting up to 30 lbs.
COMPENSATION
The Assistant Camp Manager will be paid $26/hour. This is a temporary seasonal position that conforms to the legal requirements of such positions; as such it is not bound by overtime pay requirements and does not include any benefits.
Application Details
We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from diverse backgrounds. This includes Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian people, LGBTQ, and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds. We affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.
APPLICATION SUBMISSION INCLUDES:
Cover letter, resume with two references, and responses to the following two short questions. Please feel free to use bullet points in your short question answers, if preferred.
We will be evaluating applications on a rolling basis, and will keep this job posting up until the role is filled. If you have any questions about applying, please contact zev@urbanadamah.org
APPLICATION SUBMISSION INCLUDES:
Cover letter, resume with two references, and responses to the following two short questions. Please feel free to use bullet points in your short question answers, if preferred.
- Please share how you personally relate to Urban Adamah’s mission.
- What’s your experience managing and supervising a team? In your experience, what makes a healthy team culture?
We will be evaluating applications on a rolling basis, and will keep this job posting up until the role is filled. If you have any questions about applying, please contact zev@urbanadamah.org