CAMP DIRECTOR

Summary of Position:

Responsible for maintaining & facilitating a top quality Christian soccer camp experience for campers, coaches, assistants, volunteers & parents. Required to represent Sports Quest with excellence in all areas of responsibility, at all times and in every interaction with a Sports Quest “client” (staff, families, organizers, camp hosts etc.) Camp Director duties & responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Providing a safe environment for parents to feel comfortable leaving their children
  • Providing a fun, positive & professional camp environment
  • Ensuring camp runs “smoothly”; unforeseen situations or points of conflict are handled wisely and in a timely fashion
  • Maintaining staff discipline, morale and “quality control” of all camp activities from the time of arrival to the time of departure from camp
  • Being the first person to arrive at camp & the last person to leave camp
  • Contacting parents in the event of an emergency
  • Delegating responsibilities to staff/volunteers as necessary
  • Knowing the camp curriculum & format
    • Soccer drills, games & competitions
    • Bible stories, applications & Scriptures
  • Leading staff devotionals when/if required
  • Speaking to parents & campers as a group at the beginning of camp or at the closing ceremony when/if required
  • Maintaining & returning all training uniform items
  • Setting the tone & standard for staff & campers by your enthusiasm, preparation & servant-leadership


Additional Expectations:

  • Ensuring effective & efficient set up, take down & clean camp equipment (including filling/cleaning water coolers)
  • Ensuring loading/unloading the Sports Quest trailer each day
  • Attending all staff meetings & staff functions
  • All other duties as assigned by the Executive Director


Authority

  • Authority to accomplish the role as Camp Director is given by the Executive Director
  • No authority to distribute emails to parents or campers


Compensation

  • A salary as set by the Executive Director & agreed upon by the Camp Director