Job Title: Summer Camp Director
PVN ID: LE-2212-005256
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

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 Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
School of Continuing and Professional St
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$30.00-$35.00
Closing Date
Feb 05, 2023 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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