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Summer Day Camp Union Head
Westside Jewish Community Center
5870 West Olympic Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Principal Responsibilities:
To learn more about Westside JCC and to apply, find us on the web at westsidejcc.org.
A JCamp Unit Head working directly with the Director of Camp will manage, supervise and program one unit at JCamp. They will serve as an integral part of the camp's Leadership Team.JCamp at Westside JCC offers camper experiences with chosen specialty tracks within a general day camp setting for campers ages 5 - 12. For summer 2023, JCamp is in session June 12 - August 18, 2023, with six days of staff training during the week of June 4 - 9, 2023.We will create opportunities for campers to learn, grow, and interact with each other in an in-person safe and fun environment.
Position Responsibilities:
- Manage the daily activities, discipline, and wellbeing of a cohort of campers and staff
- Communicate with parents about camper and camp needs and issues
- With the Director and Assistant Directors of JCamp manage counselors
- Support Counselors in planning and managing grade level appropriate activities
- Be responsible for the needs of the campers, your fellow staff members, and yourself
- Be conscious of COVID19 protocols and safety at all times
- Provide fellow staff members with your support
- Maintain strong lines of communication with all other staff members
- Behave appropriately and be an exemplary role model of Jewish living
- Be actively engaged with campers
- Be on time and participate in all assigned activities
- Dress appropriately for activities, always adhering to the Camp dress code.
- Additional responsibilities as required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must have held a similar leadership position while working with children
- Must have completed junior year of college
- Desire and ability to work with children in camp setting
- Ability to relate to one's peer group
- Ability to accept supervision and guidance
- Desire to change behaviors as necessary to continue growth in position and role in Camp
- Be of good character, integrity, and adaptability
- Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, and self-control
- Well-developed sense of responsibility, good judgment, common sense
- Must understand the potential, characteristics, and issues of young children
- Must be sufficiently mature to guide impressionable campers through their time at Camp
- Must always respect the feelings of both children and their parents.
Salary:
Under $25,000
Agency Information:
Founded in 1954, Westside Jewish Community Center's (Westside JCC) mission is to build community based on Jewish values by creating opportunities for gathering and learning. Westside JCC reaches out to all Jews and the greater community by offering stimulating and innovative educational, social, cultural, recreational, and communal programs and activities fostering a strong connection to Israel. Westside JCC aspires to offer programming that provides meaning and purpose to Jewish values, and space that creates a sense of belonging for everyone it touches.
Westside JCC serves the Jewish and broader community in our neighborhood and Los Angeles. Our flagship programs are our outstanding Early Childhood Center, our growing year-round day camp program JCamp and our teen leadership and sports programs, Diller Teen Fellows and Maccabi. Other programs include our aquatics center with 2,450 swim lessons weekly, senior wellness programming, parent and me programming, fitness classes, programs for individuals with special needs and youth sports leagues.
JCamp at Westside JCC offers camper experiences with chosen specialty tracks within a general day camp setting for campers ages 5 - 12. JCamp is an American Camp Association accredited day camp.
Westside JCC is an equal opportunity employer committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunity and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Our policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.To learn more about Westside JCC and to apply, find us on the web at westsidejcc.org.