Dpr Summer 2024 Boost Camp

4 weeks ago


Washington, United States Department of Parks and Recrea Full time

DPR’s Boost Camp offers a variety of exciting urban camping opportunities for youth ages 3 to 13. This camp offers a combination of high-quality enrichment and recreation in addition to an academic/education component to accelerate learning. In these camps, youth can experience balanced human development, build strong positive connections with their peers, and learn in a safe environment for free.

**Duties And Responsibilities**

**Site Administrator**
- Create a structured camp environment with continuous opportunities for learning and growth
- Provide supervision to support staff to ensure adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures, correcting errors or problems.
- Resolve customer complaints and/or answer customers' questions regarding policies and procedures.
- Provide employees with guidance in handling difficult or complex problems.
- Interpret and communicate work procedures and company policies to staff.
- Assist with evaluating employees' job performance and conformance to regulations and recommend appropriate personnel action.
- Train or instruct employees in job duties and program implementation
- Train or instruct employees in participant behavior management
- Implement agency policies, procedures, and service standards. Make recommendations, develop, or update procedures, policies, or standards.
- Complete program and staff evaluations by established deadlines

**Behavior Specialist**
- Supervise 6-10 youth with special needs always ensuring their safety.
- Assist in developing and implementing an engaging daily curriculum
- Provide verbal and physical intervention as needed to manage disruptive or aggressive participant behavior
- Provide 1:1 support for students having difficulty with self-control
- Model appropriate social behaviors and encourage the campers to interact positively with each other
- Foster a positive working environment
- Create a structured schedule for each day
- Develop positive working relationships with the site staff
- Swim and monitor pool safety with campers during all swim sessions
- Comply with personnel policies for camp staff

**Enrichment Facilitator**
- Supervise 8-10 youth and always keep them safe
- Create a structured camp environment with continuous opportunities for learning and growth
- Create and implement project-oriented activities
- Maintain working knowledge of all applicable curriculum sets
- Provide leadership for multiple camp groups
- Create a positive environment with high expectations for staff and children
- Provide feedback and direction to staff team to meet camp goals
- Communicate clear and positive expectations and plans to parents
- Implement positive behavior management techniques to redirect camper behavior
- Swim and monitor pool safety with campers during all swim sessions
- Comply with personnel policies for camp staff

**Site Support Assistant**
- Takes direction from Site Administrator on how to assist with camp functions each day
- Support daily program administration
- Support meals programs
- Provide support to all aspects of the camp day
- Assist with keeping groups of children safe at all times
- Comply with personnel policies for camp staff

**Minimum Qualifications/Education/ Experience**:
**Site Administrator**
- At least 2 years' experience with recreational programming; preferably with DPR
- At least 2-3 years' experience in program facilitation and/or program management
- Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook
- Excellent communication skills-written and verbal
- Excellent customer service skills
- Maintains a solutions-oriented approach in the face of challenges
- Attention to detail

**Behavior Specialist**
- At least 21 years of age
- High level of energy and enthusiasm
- Available to attend training and work every day of Summer Camp beginning June 17-August 09, 2024
- At least 3 years of experience working with children with a wide range of special needs
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership role
- The ability to plan, organize, and contribute ideas during planning sessions, securing supplies and materials, etc.
- Leadership experience including planning and preparation of various engaging recreational activities.
- Good judgment and the ability to recognize hazardous situations and prevent accidents
- Must be alert and able to physically control campers if necessary
- Ability to implement behavior management plans or supporting behavior management strategies
- Must have knowledge of developmental and intellectual disabilities and behavior management techniques such as positive reinforcement, redirection, setting limits, etc

**Enrichment Facilitator**
- At least 21 years of age
- Available to attend training and work every day of summer camp from June 17- August 09, 2024
- At least 2 years of experience working with groups of prek3- 13 children
- At least 2 years of leadership experience
- Passionate about working with youth
- Proven success creating and leading a safe a


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