STEAM Camp Director

CuriOdyssey is seeking Camp Directors to support Camp CuriOdyssey campers in summer 2023.

Camp CuriOdyssey provides camper driven investigations of science and the outdoors, enabling them to grow as critical and creative thinkers while they experience and understand how the world works. Our campers are 5-12 years old, predominantly from the local area and come to us with varied learning abilities. Camp groups are small to ensure that campers enjoy personal, rich explorations alongside skilled staff, volunteers, and peers. Camp staff creates an environment that empowers campers to question, investigate, and imagine.

Camp CuriOdyssey is supported by a team of Directors, Leaders, Inclusion Specialist, and Leaders-in-Training, reporting to the Assistant Director of Education. Camp CuriOdyssey’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art/animals and math) focus is reflected in a robust curriculum developed around the following Camp themes: Gadgets and Gizmos, Art Inventors, Junior Keepers, Nature Quest, Museum Medley and Eco Explorers. Camp Directors will implement our robust curriculum for our Kindergarten to 6th grade campers, provide supervision, leadership, and support to camp staff and youth volunteer “Leaders in Training” and ensure that the camp environment empowers campers to question, investigate, and imagine. For the summer of 2023 we are seeking 6 Camp Director positions to lead one of our themed camps.

We challenge campers to be empowered by their failures and try new ideas. The goal is to create a camper driven learning environment tailored to the child’s learning needs with great respect for the identity, cultural background and lived experiences of each learner.

Primary Responsibilities

Facilitates the Camp activities for a specific Camp theme
Understand and alter camp content in alignment with CuriOdyssey’s approach and to meet campers’ diverse learning styles
Supervise and guide camp staff (Leaders, and/or Leaders-in-Training), ensuring that campers have a safe and fun learning environment
Proactively communicate with a camper’s caregiver/guardian about the exciting camp activities, the camper’s involvement in camp, and/or camp’s policies and procedures.
Provides support to other camps.

Desired Qualities

Commitment to the mission of CuriOdyssey and science/environmental education.
Creative, curious, and compassionate approach to facilitating positive learning experiences for children.
An individual who understands and respects children, recognizes that learning is a process not a product, is committed to positive behavior management, and makes the learning process engaging, fun, and driven by the individual camper.
Experience and expertise working with youth and a basic understanding of life, earth and/or physical science.
Demonstrate a growth mindset, a positive attitude towards new experiences and profound respect for children as intelligent learners.
This position requires the candidate to take and clear a Livescan fingerprint and background check.
Must currently have or be willing to get a CPR/First Aid Certification.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

The physical demands herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential job functions.

Environment: Work is conducted at CuriOdyssey and immediately local space at Coyote Point. Camp will take place indoors and outdoors in various weather conditions.

Mobility: Physical ability and endurance to occasionally carry and lift heavy materials, up to 50 pounds. Frequently move from a sitting to standing position. Traversing uneven surfaces, bending, reaching, sitting on the floor with children and twisting are daily repetitive physical actions.

Compensation and Benefits

To Apply

CuriOdyssey seeks to build a diverse work team and encourages applications from candidates who will add to that diversity. CuriOdyssey is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that having staff, interns, and volunteers with diverse backgrounds enable us to better meet our mission. CuriOdyssey considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other identifiable status.

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STEAM Camp Director