Careers Job Description
General Description
Day Camp director will oversee most aspects of staffing, programming, and camper relations for our summer camp season. Duties include staff hiring and training, site and resource organization and program management. Responsibilities include directing staff training, parent orientations, managing camper information and groupings, maintaining fiscal records, and working within a budget. The director is responsible for maintaining camp resources, supplies, interacting with parents, campers, staff, and administration as needed. The director is accountable for the overall management of the program. The director is specifically responsible for personnel management, program development and health and safety management in accordance with NYS Department of Health and mental Hygiene (Article 48).
Other Duties
- Develop and coordinate activities for a safe, engaging, high quality summer program
- Oversee hiring and training of all summer camp staff including Health Director and Aquatics Director
- Maintain fiscal records for summer camp program, including summer budget
- Oversee the follow-through of any correspondence necessary related to camp functions and activities. For example: summer staff contracts and schedules, permits, summer camp applications, and emails
- Oversee camp recruitment and registration
- Address crisis management, discipline and troubleshooting issues related to campers and/or staff
- Determine supply and equipment needs in ordering/purchasing
- Support and supervise instructors in organizing, implementing, and decision-making
- Maintain a positive team atmosphere that includes campers, families, camp based and Continuing Education staff
Qualifications
- At least 21 years old
- Previous Administrative or Supervisory experience
- Superior organizational skills
- Works well with minimal supervision, and asks for assistance when needed
- Manages conflict situations appropriately
- Excellent social, communication, writing and computer skills
- First Aid/ CPR Certified or willing to obtain
- Physical, visual, and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards related to assigned activities. Must be able to run, walk or stand and fully participate in camp activities for up to 10 hours
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, effectively communicate with children and adults and manage large and small groups
- Demonstrated desire and ability to work with and relate to children, teens, and one’s peers
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
School of Continuing and Professional St
Part Time
$30.00-$35.00
Feb 05, 2023 (Or Until Filled)