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Camp Kaleidoscopes Inclusion Coordinator supervises a team of one-on-one Advocate Counselors and provides direct service to campers with special needs and behavioral challenges to facilitate inclusion with their peers via supportive, effective camper and staff interactions. The Inclusion Coordinator is essential in ensuring camp is inclusive for all campers, staff, families and guests. This role works with the Camp Leadership Team to ensure all camp programs (schedules, activities, and special events), policies, trainings, and operations/functions are developed and facilitated through an inclusive lens. The Inclusion Coordinator is responsible for developing and facilitating training and ongoing support for Advocate Counselor staff, who provide one-on-one care for campers with special needs to ensure they are fully included in activities with their peers.
JCC Greater Boston is deeply committed to valuing and celebrating the uniqueness of each constituent. We welcome staff and participants from diverse backgrounds. While being proudly Jewish, we strive in every way to provide an open and welcoming setting for all, irrespective of personal practices, beliefs or background. We are guided by JCC Greater Boston core values Belonging, Joyfulness, Collaboration and Transformation which resonate with many who do not identify as Jewish.
About Camp Kaleidoscope
Camp Kaleidoscope is a co-ed day camp where campers and staff forge lifelong friendships within an immersive program grounded in building self-confidence and social skills through a wide variety of activities, including arts and sciences, sports, swimming, outdoor adventure, and more. Camp serves over 220 youth weekly (grades K-10), supervised by approximately 80 seasonal staff members and three full-time, year-round supervisory staff. Each summer we serve approximately 40 to 50 campers with diagnosed special needs, including social/emotional challenges, physical or visual impairments, as well as behavioral and developmental needs.
Inclusion at Camp Kaleidoscope
Camp Kaleidoscope is located at the Leventhal-Siedman Jewish Community Center and is committed to making camp an inclusive environment for all campers, staff, families, and guests. We recognize the intersectionality of various learning and sensory differences, medical considerations, gender identities, cultural differences, and other special needs. Our aim is to proactively create a culture of inclusion.
For more information on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at JCC Greater Boston, please visit our website(link removed)>
Salary for the season is $8,000 $9,200. The salary offered will ultimately be determined by the scope of the position, the candidates relevant experience, and internal equity. While a full summer commitment is preferred for this summer role, there is some flexibility.
Schedule
Full-time seasonal: June 17 through August 16. 8:30am 4:30pm, Mondays through Fridays
Agency Information
JCC Greater Boston is a nonprofit organization with roots in earlier Settlement Houses and Young Mens Hebrew Associations; JCC Greater Boston today offers a wide range of services and program activities throughout the Greater Boston region (~50,000 individuals annually in 98 communities). The organization provides a variety of programs and services to children and adults in the Greater Boston Jewish community including preschools, day camps, a regional model of Jewish family engagement, a fully equipped fitness and aquatic center, arts and culture classes, performances, lectures, and Jewish holiday celebrations.
Our vision is to create a vibrant and evolving Jewish community where everyone belongs. Our mission is to be at the heart of that community by:
- creating a thriving community that nurtures meaningful and lasting relationships
- welcoming a growing and increasingly diverse set of individuals and families from all over Greater Boston
- supporting the building of unique identities rooted in Jewish values and deeper connections to Jewish life
- nourishing minds, bodies, and spirits through dynamic, innovative, and accessible - experiences and expanding engagement by partnering closely with other organizations to ensure the continuing vitality of our community as a whole
JCC Greater Boston takes the welfare and safety of staff, children, and program participants very seriously. On an ongoing basis, we align our operating procedures with guidance from the CDC and the state. In response to current local public health situations, our practices have previously included, and in the future may include, ensuring proper physical distancing, sanitation, hygiene, vaccination requirements, and use of face coverings to promote the health of our staff and program participants.
To learn more about what makes JCC Greater Boston a wonderful place to work, please visit our careers page at (link removed)
To Apply
JCC Greater Boston welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds who meet the requirements specified above. If you want to share your talents with a great team, co-creating a thriving, dynamic organization which is devoted to community building and lasting impact, please send a cover letter and your resume tokaleidoscope@jccgb.orgor complete the staff application: (link removed)
JCC Greater Boston is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or disability. In a continuing effort to maintain and enrich a diverse environment, we actively encourage applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.
Requirements
- Meet with camper families and communicate, as needed
- Plan and lead staff orientation activities
- Support campers ages 5 16 daily
- Facilitate staff meetings; attend daily staff check-ins and partner on a daily basis with Camp Leadership
- Create a fun/joyful dynamic
- Work in partnership with peers and Camp Leadership to provide a happy, safe and memorable summer for the children
- Contribute, as needed, in camp special events and initiatives
- Oversee the development of ICPs (Individual Camper Plans) to outline accommodations required to fully include campers in our camp program
- Oversee the facilitation of ICPs, ensuring Camp Counselors, Unit Heads, and Specialists/Instructors are mindful and proactive in regards to specific camper needs
Qualifications
- Have college degree, graduate degree, or significant experience in education, special education, social work, counseling or related field
- Have 2+ years of experience teaching and/or counseling school-age children
- Excellent group management skills
- Flexibility in plans and positive attitude
- Able to build strong relationships with children, staff, and parents
- Capable of working in a fast-paced environment and thinking on their feet
- Adaptive to change
- Enjoy working with children and a strong desire to make a difference every day
- Ability to multitask and to manage situations effectively and diplomatically
- Ability and commitment to build strong relationships with campers, parents, co-workers, and camp leadership
ADA Statement:Individuals must possess these criteria for knowledge, skills, and abilities or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation and using some other combination of skills and abilities.
Benefits
In addition to a rewarding position where you care for a community, the JCC Greater Boston provides competitive benefits including:
- A competitive salary
- A fun, active work culture and community
- Complimentary summer access to the JCC Greater Boston facility in Newton offering indoor swimming and workout facilities
- Parents working full time may have their child attend camp for free for the weeks they are working
- Outstanding working environment including convenient, free parking
- Camp Kaleidoscope offers free camp bus service from Cambridge, Brookline, Framingham, Sudbury and Wayland.
Benefits are subject to review and change by the Organization.
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