| Job Title: |
Summer Camp Counselor |
| Classification: |
Summer Internships |
| Department: |
Guided Learning |
| Reports To: |
Summer Camp Coordinator |
| Direct Report: |
N/A |
| Contact Email: |
hr@sciowa.org |
| Scope: |
Summer Camp Counselors are responsible for providing a fun, safe and educationally effective learning environment in a science day camp setting. They will develop weekly camp curriculum with exciting, hands-on activities around such topics as Amusement Parks, Robots, Chemistry, and Animals. Counselors are also responsible for providing ongoing, daily supervision and mentoring of up to 20 campers ranging from 4-14 years old. They will also mentor a 16-18 year old Junior Counselor. |
| Responsibilities: |
- Develop and implement activity-based curriculum to facilitate skills-based learning on a variety of science themes and concepts
- Present, teach and facilitate hands-on activities in a classroom setting with up to 20 children per camp, 4-14 years old.
- Develop and implement behavior management and time management skills in the classroom
- Coordinate and facilitate field trips, guest speakers and programming
- Ability to obtain a chauffer license
- Create supply list, daily schedule and a parent letter for each camp you teach
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| Requirements: |
- High School Diploma
- College course work in Education or Science related fields
- General knowledge of or interest in science and education
- Previous experience working with youth and parents
Skills:
- Enthusiastic, energetic, hard worker, flexible, creative and timely
- Comfortable with public speaking to children, parents, mentors and supervisors
- Posses excellent communication skills and looking for a challenge
- Able to problem solve and troubleshoot
- Organized self-starter; ability to work with little supervision
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| Working Hours: |
The employment period for a Science Center of Iowa 2010 Summer Camp Counselor includes two weeks of orientation and ten weeks of camp from 8:15 am – 4:30 pm, June 1 - August 20. You will be responsible to build your camp curriculum outside of the work hours listed. |