Camp Counselor

As a camp counselor at Falling Creek, you'll be a role model, a big brother/sister, teacher, coach, mentor, listener, memory maker, problem solver and superhero. Your job is to help boys have a great experience at camp, whether you're joining them at meals, teaching in activities, leading an outdoor trip, encouraging a homesick camper or helping them get ready for bed after a day of adventure. The day may be long, but you can't beat the type of day you'll have!

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Benefits

We offer a competitive and progressive pay schedule that is determined based on your experience, age, education, certifications, and other factors. Staff working the full summer (Orientation plus 4 sessions) will have a base pay of $4000, not including additional pay, experience and bonuses.

Visit our “What You Get” page to see the full pay scale, read more about the value of an internship at camp, learn how to translate your camp experience to your resume and to find more resources.

In addition to housing, food, and pay, each day at camp brings adventure, physical recreation and endless opportunities for personal and professional growth. You are welcome to use the camp facilities and participate in activities during your free time, so long as it does not take away from a class or camper.
 

Housing

Male camp counselors live in a cabin with one other counselor and about eight campers. In addition to their activity instruction, male counselors will have an assortment of responsibilities related to the management of their cabin. Female camp counselors also serve as activity staff, but don’t live in cabins with the campers, and are responsible instead for organizational tasks during the times that male staff are busy with their cabins. Trip Leaders are responsible for the planning and logistics of outdoor adventure trips, and do not live in a cabin with campers.
 

Skills Needed

Our mission states that we exist to shepherd the journey of personal growth through love and adventure. Staff must be dedicated to live by the Falling Creek Code.

Completed At Least One Year of College and/or At Least 19 Years Old.

Patient. Flexible. Team Player. Genuinely Enthusiastic. Friendly. Eager to Grow. Open to Offer and Receive Feedback. Able to Think on Your Feet. Good Decision Maker. Hard Working. Get-It-Done Attitude.

See more on our staff FAQs page.

We hire a co-ed staff for our summer and listed pay is the base rate. We provide additional bonuses for education, certifications, and completion of the training and the entirety of the contract.

At Falling Creek, we recruit as wide a variety of personalities as possible. With as many campers as we have, our boys resonate uniquely with counselors, whatever identity they bring to the mountain. That being said, there are certain qualities that are more conducive to success over the course of the entire season. Chief amongst these are perhaps flexibility and work ethic. It is hard to predict the exact course of a day, but our staff should be engaged and creative enough to roll with whatever challenge might come their way. We also like people who are team players. Unselfishness is what we call “the spirit of Falling Creek”, and one must be able to prioritize the needs of our community over themselves.