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Elementary Education Internship

Camp Cobbossee
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Permanently Assigned Counselor / Elementary Education Internship

– Camp Cobbossee for Boys –

Monmouth, Maine

THE JOB

Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 9th to August 10th, 2024.

Cobbossee is looking for male and female Elementary Education students to intern this summer at camp. The aim of this internship is to develop vast experience in the Management, relationship development and engagement of campers aged 8-10. Through close mentorship, Cobbossee’s experienced educators (Career teachers, principals and Director Josh, Ph.D) will manage you closely to provide an internship that provides vast contact time with a range of ages and personalities whilst developing communication, group management and leadership skills.

The Elementary Education internship role is crucial to the success of our youngest age group, the Rovers. These are boys in 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade. Cobbossee is a boys sports and adventure camp dedicated to helping all of our boys and counselors forge deeper relationships with each other, fostering independence in a residential environment. Crucially, this process starts at our youngest ages and is fostered by you, the counselor!

Arriving after wake up and leaving after lights out each day, each counselor accompanies their bunk to meals and through routines in a pastoral role. Throughout the day’s activity sessions, the counselor will guide an activity group of Rovers around all of their activities on the sporting fields, at the Waterfront and at the Adventure program.

In this way, the counselor is absolutely central to the daily experience of boys at these ages, and the relationships they form are necessarily deep and broad. This position offers responsibility, variety and an extremely involved role in the Cobbossee culture. You will work hard, but you will also become really important to your boys. Lots of tears on departure day! 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND TRAITS

  • Patient, warm, creative, and kind.
  • Experience with young people (especially 2nd-4th grade boys)
  • Ability to make routines and small tasks seem interesting
  • Tolerance for repetition (this age group likes to do stuff over and over)
  • Enthusiasm for the variety of activities (Sports, Adventure, Waterfront) one will perform with the boys, regardless of one’s own proficiency in any one activity

DUTIES

  • Primary source of care, affection, attention, and encouragement for our young boys, in collaboration with other counselors (three male counselors in each bunk)
  • Group management at activities and accompanying the bunk from place to place
  • Steady attention and care distributed to each of the boys as equally as possible
  • Collaboration with leadership staff members and co-counselors to deliver excellent residence life experience and programming

THE BENEFITS

Ever wanted to see New England? Well, in addition to your Salary and Bonus, Cobbossee will provide you with a Travel Stipend so you can get out to Maine without spending your own money. (That’s right, we cover your travel so that you can take this adventurous internship).

Room and board is also provided ALL SUMMER LONG, so you won’t have any outgoings whilst at camp. Our female staff live separately to our boys & male staff, in single gender accommodation. Inhouse benefits include an on-site laundry, Staff room, weight room, arranged travel offsite and facilities use all summer. If you like to eat, you are in luck because the food is famously good at Cobbossee. No, really, it is! Check out Louis on our website. 

Further, and maybe most importantly for a summer work experience; days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous college-aged folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year. We have a very rich social scene over the summer, hiring men and women from all over the states and world (a third of our counselor staff are international from the UK, Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Canada and Mexico).

INTERNSHIP INFORMATION

We intend to configure your employment this summer as an Internship. Each year Cobbossee provides around 30-40 staff with internships in a range of Educational positions. 

Our director, Ph.D, Josh Holland, is a former academic and can make sure your experience is converted into internship credit if that’s what you want. Especially if you are in any child-centered major (Elementary Education, Early Education) this experience can be one of the best paid internships you can find. Even without course credit, we can ensure that professional learning outcomes are created and achieved throughout your summer with us.

Many schools have different requirements so learning objectives and contact hour requirements will be discussed through the interview process to ensure we provide the best professional development for you through this work experience.

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. Please read our Handshake reviews, specifically from previous PAC’s and women on our staff. Our Staffing Director will also be happy to connect you with last years’ staff members if you want to hear about it from them first hand.

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. Our Staffing Director, Matt “Jonesy” Jones will be in touch very quickly. You can also call us at 800-473-6104 if you have more questions or simply text Jonesy at 207-305-2170.

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.