Summer Camp Counselor

Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social justice to build loving, just, and sustainable communities. We provide training programs, educational workshops, and community celebrations for more than 10,000 visitors annually.

Every summer, Urban Adamah offers an outdoor summer camp for kids in preschool - 8th grade. Summer Camp features hands-on projects and activities exploring themes that integrate nature-connection, crafts, farming, community-building, and Jewish values. Camp Urban Adamah is designed to create a space for children to thrive and express their natural curiosity and passion, all within a vibrant, loving, and inclusive Jewish community. Our counselors ensure that children of different ages can have joyful  experiences within a small group of peers.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Summer camp counselors are responsible for leading a group of up to 15 children during the camp day 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM, along with another counselor and usually a teen intern and counselor in training. The counselor sets the tone of the group through team-building games, fun opening and closing rituals, listening circles, and more. Counselors set and uphold standards of safety and respect within the group, and communicate behavioral or programmatic concerns to the Youth & Family Programs Manager in a timely manner.

CAMP SUPPORT
Counselors are responsible for daily set-up and clean-up (in general and after specific activities) as well as other tasks related to camp operations on an as-needed basis. Our younger campers may also need help changing their clothes and using the bathroom (no diaper-changing). We appreciate an overall spirit of flexibility and enthusiasm!

SAFETY
All counselors ensure that camp is a safe environment for children, as well as other staff. Counselors make sure that all children are accounted for and within their specified locations from drop-off to pick-up time. Counselors keep a birds-eye-view of potential hazards around the farm, help children use tools safely, are available to administer basic first aid, and support emergency protocols and procedures.

PROGRAM/ACTIVITY LEADER
Counselors help facilitate activities throughout the program. Activities include typical farm tasks such as planting, harvesting, tending to garden beds, and caring for animals; and creative projects involving the arts, music, dance, and drama. In most cases, counselors are not usually responsible for leading and creating their own programmatic activities, but they provide a critical role in helping specialists teach campers fun, farm-related activities.