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Summer Camp Office Manager

Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 7th to August 14th, 2023. 

We are looking for an experienced male OR female Office Manager for our summer season 2023. Similarly to any communication/administration management role the office manager has a range of daily tasks and responsibilities, the most important of which is managing the Office Assistants and the office space at Cobbossee. This means this position supervises 2-3 other people and must lead them, hold them accountable, be an excellent example for them, and make sure they are set up for success in their own roles. 

The office is a very vibrant place to work on camp, if the Dining Hall is the beating heart of camp then the Office is the camp’s brain.

The Manager is given responsibility & autonomy to manage the office and the team schedule as well as a wide variety of tasks for which the office is responsible. These include, but are not limited to, professional communication with our families (including nervous or frustrated parents!), scheduled daily announcements over our PA system, delivery & logistical support for packages, mail, and large deliveries; processing incoming and outgoing mail (including online); paperwork administration in house, sending out new-camper lead packets, receiving and collating data from staff and camper evals;  and organizing camper phone calls.

There will be a lot of interaction with everybody in our community. Programs, Operations and the Directors are all based in the Office. The Office Manager is the guardian of these other roles’ time and responsibilities, lots of people want to speak to them about things that lower leadership can handle. This role is super dynamic, on the same day the office team will be speaking with parents, responding to emails, processing the mail, helping a camper change his schedule and likely counting Cobba-cash for one of our special evening events. 

You will have a load of interaction with leadership staff, counselors and our hilarious boys. Outside of your working shift we want you to get as much as you can out of the camp experience. In your free time you can use our gym, hang out in our air-conditioned staff lounge, swim in the lake, climb in our trees or join in any of our sports or activity sessions alongside the rest of the community. You will bunk on site in your own room, away from the camper accommodation, sharing facilities with other leadership staff.

You can work in an office job in many settings but this role will be a lot more than just a job, if you’re going to manage an office at a summer camp, we want you to take advantage of all the fun and facilities on site. We want you to be as much a part of the community as our counselors and campers. 



THE BENEFITS
Hourly pay per hour, all summer, $13.70 in Maine 2023
Training and experience in Leadership and Managing a close-knit team
Travel allowance to get you to and from camp.
End of season bonus
Further, days off and evening free time is spent with other adventurous folks like you. Our leadership, like our campers, make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year.

OTHER POSSIBLE BENEFITS
We can configure your employment this summer as job training, an internship, or just a really great summer job. Our director, Josh Holland, is a former academic and can make sure your experience is converted into internship credit if that’s what you want. If you are in any child-centered major (teaching, education, coaching) or any sports-related field (sports management, kinesiology, movement, physical-education), this experience can be one of the best paid internships you can find.

THE BOTTOM LINE
“Summer jobs” are often seen as throwaway jobs. Not here. This job is going to challenge you. You are going to give of yourself, have an absolute blast, develop strong friendships with your peers, and really make a difference in young people’s lives. 
You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. We develop counselors like we develop campers. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.

WHAT TO DO NEXT
You should immediately head to https://www.campcobbossee.com/experience/#work and apply online. One of our staffing directors (Matt Jones or John Hawk) will be in touch very quickly. You can also call us at 800-473-6104 if you have more questions.

For anyone not familiar with the huge world of sleepaway camps in New England, it works as follows:
All over the northeast each summer, families send their boys and girls up to New England to spend anywhere from a couple weeks to the entire summer at a sleepaway camp. Sometimes people who are not from the east coast see this as a strange choice, maybe even a mean choice! “Don’t they like their kids?” the question goes. Of course they do. They love their children and it’s hard for them to be away from them for the time they are at camp. But parents sacrifice time with their kids in the summer because summer camp is really good for young children. Camp (especially longer-term camps of four-to-eight weeks) teaches children independence, self-reliance, and confidence through the teaching of new skills, improving at sports, and living away from home. It isn’t always easy. But it is worth it! Crucial to this process are you, the counselor. You become like a family member to the campers in your cabin. In fact, you will find yourself developing really fast yourself, just so you can be the best counselor and instructor possible for your kids! It is rewarding, challenging, and transformative work to care for campers.