Primary Jobs
These are the jobs that need to be filled sooner rather than later because they are so important that you want your best people on them [kitchen manager, teendir, etc...] or because they need to be done or prepared for well ahead of time [cabin signs, presentations, etc ...]
| Opening Asst. |
TeenDir | KichenDir |
| Teen Group Leader |
Adult Group Leader | Leader- Leader |
FIRST YOU WILL FIND A PARAGRAPH WRITTEN IN UPPER CASE ITALICS THAT ARE NOTES TO YOU, THE DIRECTORS ...
FOLLOWED BY ... a job description in lower case letters that is written for the person who will be doing the job ... you can take thatc lower case paragraph and copy & paste it into an email for any campers that are considering that job, or read it to them over the phone
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[OPENING WEEK ONLY] AS YOU TALK TO CAMPERS ON THE PHONE OR BY EMAIL ABOUT WHAT JOBS THEY MAY BE WILLING TO DO, FIND OUT IF SOME OF THEM WOULD BE WILLING TO COME EARLY ENOUGH TO BE OPENING ASSISTANTS
arrive at camp by Saturday late morning or early afternoon and work on the jobs that the coordinator asks them to do until they need to get settled into their cabin - if the assistant is also on the start-up staff, they can only be an opening assistant if they arrive significantly earlier than they are needed to in order to do their start-up jobs [if the big bean, they can be an opening assistant if they are in camp early to mid morning and can help until noon when they can get settled into their cabin and then get to their start up job - the babysitting coordinator could be an opening assistant until late afternoon - a group leader could be an opening assistant all day ...]
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TEENS LEAD KID GROUPS, BABYSIT, HAVE GROUPS, HAVE MORNING OPTIONS, ETC, AND NEED TO GIVE AND RECEIVE RESPECT, SO THE TEENDIRS NEED TO HAVE TIME AND WISDOM TO PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THAT ...
: be at camp early enough on saturday to meet with directors and to get the checklist, etc. from the Big Bean to sort the "teen beens" and to make sure the evening kid's groups are sorted [can be delegated to some of your older teens who will be the leaders of the kids groups] ... the Big Bean has a clipboard with instructions for kids group sorting - help older teens plan for kid groups
... be an advocate for the teens ... meet with the teengrouplers regularly to make sure their groups are going well ... help adult groups with ideas for teen options during morning program ... help teens find ways to best serve the camp if they seem to need that ... attend leader-leader and/or keep in touch with the dirs
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PREFERABLY ONE WITH EXPERIENCE AND ANOTHER WHO COULD WORK WELL WITH, AND LEARN FROM, THE ONE ... KITCHEN MANAGERS NEED TO GET ALONG WELL WITH THE COOKS BECAUSE THE WHOLE POINT OF KITCHEN MANAGERS IS TO MAKE THINGS WORKABLE FOR THE COOKING STAFF ... JUST ONE FOR SMALL WEEKS
KITCHENDIR
- Make things easier for cooks and dishdirs ...
- Be in kitchen before 8:45am and before the other times of day
posted on kitchen duty schedule [on fridge] - Make sure kitchen crew shows up [keep in contact with group leaders
to help get their group there when they should be] - Assign members of kitchen crews to the tasks on food prep and clean up lists ...
- Check with cookdir to see if anything is missing from lists that needs doing ... make sure laundir, trashdir, refiller [kitchen], stockdir, coffeepot watchdir jobs are being done.
YOU MAY WANT TO START LOOKING FOR TEEN LEADERS FIRST, BECAUSE ADULT GROUPS CAN THEORETICALLY TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES IF THE LEADER FALLS SHORT, SO THE TEENS NEED THE STRONGER LEADERS ... USUALLY, THE YOUNGER TEENS ARE 13 THROUGH 15 YR-OLDS [THE 15S GRUMBLE ABOUT THAT BUT THE YOUNGERS REALLY NEED THEIR MENTORSHIP] ...
THE OLDER TEENS ARE 16S, 17S, UNGRADUATED 18S, AND ANY GRADUATED 18S AND 19S WHO PREFER A TEEN GROUP TO AN ADULT GROUP ... FOR OLDER TEENS AIM FOR GROUPS OF 6 TO 8 [INCLUDING THE LEADERS], AND FOR YOUNGER TEENS, GROUPS OF 7 TO 9 ... FEWER TENDS TO BE DIFFICULT BECAUSE THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH MEMBERS WILLING TO SHARE, AND MORE THAN THAT MAKES IT HARD TO FIT THE SHARING INTO THE ALLOTTED TIME ...
TEEN GROUP LEADER try to be at camp by saturday night so that you can attend the sunday morning meeting ... it's recommended that you attend either leader-leader or an adult group in addition to the teen group you lead ... be aware of the needs of each camper in your group ... help your group follow the guidelines ... stay in touch with teendir.
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ADULT GROUP LEADERS AIMING FOR 6 TO 8 MEMBERS PER GROUP ... SMALLER GROUPS CAN WORK FOR SHARING, BUT THEY DON'T WORK WELL FOR CHORES BECAUSE THERE ARE ALMOST ALWAYS MEMBERS IN EACH GROUP THAT CANT BE THERE [MINISTERS, KITCHEN MANAGERS, MUSIC ...]
try to be at camp by saturday night so that you can attend the sunday morning meeting ... attend leader-leader group in the early afternoon ... be aware of the needs of each camper in your group ... help your group follow the guidelines ... help your group members remember when and where they need to be for kitchen, chore and school duties ... encourage your members to take ownership and keep telling you what they want/need from the group
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LEADER-LEADER LEADER "LEADER-LEADER"
USED TO BE THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO LED THE SHARING GROUPS FOR LEADERS, BUT THEN IT BECAME THE NAME OF THE GROUP ... SO NOW, YOU'LL HAVE A LEADER-LEADER GROUP LEADER... THIS IS USUALLY ONE OR BOTH OF THE "PARENTDIRS", BUT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ... IT COULD BE ANYONE YOU WANT
Leader-Leader is usually the momdir or popdir ... lead the leader-leader group meetings that take place in the early afternoon ... support and help the group leaders process any issues that may not be appropriate or comfortable for them to bring up in the group they are leading
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