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Activities Intern

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Job Title: Activities Intern
Department: Activities/Challenge Course
Reports To: Challenge Course Manager and Assistant CCM

About Us
Camp Eagle started in 1999. We’re located in a pretty wild place in the hill country of Texas. 1,400 acres along the headwaters of the spring-fed Nueces River, filled with limestone cliffs, woods, trails, and wildlife.

We are all about our Mission. We exist to:
Inspire Christ-like change through Outdoor Adventure, Authentic Relationships, and Biblical Truth. Our Playbook and everything we do is built around this, and it comes up often.

We operate year-round with multiple summer and retreat-season programs at our 1,000-bed facility.


Who We Are
Our remote location deepens our community. With roughly 100 people living on-site, co-workers become neighbors, and neighbors become friends. This is a missional community, and togetherness is very important to us. Our community is a special thing and is a big part of why many of our staff serve here.

This also strengthens our culture, which is evident throughout this ministry and our community. A few things about our culture stand out.
We highly value a vibrant relationship with Christ and serving people out of the strength of that relationship. We’re not just a ministry; we love Jesus.
We know who we are, and we do our best to talk about that often to stay on the same page with the big picture.
Dreaming is in our DNA. We don’t pretend to know everything, so we often spend time dreaming up new solutions and opportunities. This is often true in individual jobs as well. If you love the freedom to find solutions and create opportunities, you’ll love that part of your job.
We tend to value mindset over skillset. If you already know how to do most things and like to make that known and not consider other ideas, you might be a better fit somewhere else. Interested in being excited to figure things out with your co-workers? We’d love for you to join us!
Adventure gets us excited. Many of our staff always have the next adventure in the works or are ready to join one after work. Whether that’s camping, mountain biking, climbing, kayaking, hiking, exploring caves, fishing, etc - most staff are down to join any adventure you’re cooking up.

What It’s Like To Work Here
On Our Best Days
We brainstorm. We’re coming up with new ideas, solving problems, and planning together.
When we are working together, helping each other out, dropping our normal job to do something different - those are the breaks between our normal work that bring us together.
We play together. We’re sharing a good meal, playing board games in the evenings, celebrating something, playing at the river, or camping at Big Bend.
We’re reconnecting back to why we are here. We’re jumping in on a summer staff training or helping with some programming, so we have that touchstone to why we do this. We’re solving a problem through the lens of our mission statement and playbook. We’re enjoying hearing about a ministry moment for how someone was inspired towards Christ-like change through camp.

On Our Not-So-Best Days
We get caught up in the “tyranny of the urgent,” especially during busy seasons. We self-inflict this by our desire to dream up new things to serve our guests, and sometimes, this asymmetrically affects our staff, which can breed frustration.
We can become siloed sometimes during a busy season.
We can be frustrated when work conflict carries over into the community. It's harder to dissociate conflict between personal and work because we live in such close proximity.
WE BELIEVE:
For a detailed description of what we believe, please visit our website: https://campeagle.org/who-we-are

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this internship is to give interested parties a head start in the world of challenge courses and course development. This position is designed to develop the essential skills in the building, inspection, maintenance, facilitation, leadership, communication, and staff management needed in the challenge course industry by utilizing the challenge course activities at Camp Eagle. These things will take place under the direct supervision of the Challenge Course Managers, as well as performing other duties as required or needed. This is a contractual position intended to be occupied for a fixed period.

Primary Job Duties:
Set up and Periodic Internal Monitoring of challenge course elements in the form of inspections, maintenance, and inventories
Facilitation of various challenge course elements as needed
Assistance to challenge course managers when needed
Lead/accomplish various work projects and tasks given by the course managers
Perform safety checks on other staff to ensure they are facilitating activities in a safe and effective manner, up to the standards trained.
Respond to rescue calls and other specialized activity needs
Provide necessary activity instruction to campers and staff.

Auxiliary Responsibilities:
Various camp tasks:
Meal service, dorm cleaning, grounds/maintenance assistance, retail, etc…
General recruiting and marketing
Other duties as assigned by Challenge Course Managers



Qualifications:
Some experience in challenge course facilitation, arbor-culture, rope access, or general camp-style activities management is highly preferred but not required.
Preferred Experience:
Some experience with shooting firearms
Some experience in mountain bike operating/maintenance
Some carpentry experience/general competency with hand tools
Requirements:
Must be at least 18 years of age
Comfortable working/operating at height often
Physically able to hang in a harness for extended periods, climbing, traversing, and rappelling down rope systems.
Guest relation/community competency
Sharpened problem-solving skills
Flexibility with tasks and schedules
Teachability and ability to learn on the fly in different environments

Physical aspects of the job:
Ability to verbally communicate well and work with youth, adults, and other staff members.
Ability to visually and auditorily observe individual staff behaviors, assess their appropriateness in the given situation, and enforce relevant safety regulations.
Visual, auditory, and intellectual ability to identify and respond to environmental, structural, gear-related, and interpersonal issues, as well as various other hazards related to the activity.
Physical ability to respond appropriately within their scope of training to situations requiring First Aid or other specialized training
Ability to assist campers/staff in the event of an emergency (fire, evacuation, illness, and/or injury) and possess the strength and endurance required to maintain constant supervision of campers.
Endurance and ability for things including prolonged standing, bending, stooping, lifting, walking, hiking, climbing, swimming, and stretching.
Possesses hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity to manipulate a variety of complex outdoor/climbing equipment and camp activities.
The ability to lift at least 50 or more pounds.
Willingness to live in a camp setting and work irregular hours with limited or simple equipment and facilities.
Daily exposure to the sun, heat, rain, wind, cold, darkness, and minimal interaction with animals such as bugs, snakes, bats, wild boars, etc.
Ability to work long hours, ranging anywhere from 6:00 AM to 12:30 AM, with two days off a week.
Note: Days off are not consistent and will be set according to camp schedules.
Pay, Compensation, and Benefits:
Pay: The proposed stipend for the Activities Intern position is $14000 for the entire contract period. This will be paid bi-weekly to the amount of $538.47 per pay period. This amount is subject to change depending on the length of the determined contract period.
Room and board: Housing and utilities at Camp Eagle will be provided, consisting of a private room, and access to a kitchen, bathroom, and living space will be made available.
Meals: Meals in the dining hall will be provided free of charge, depending on whenever guests are on site and reach the predetermined minimum amount of guests in order for staff to be present.
Training/other benefits:
ACCT LV. 1 Challenge Course Facilitation Training and Certification
NRA Range Safety Officer Certification
Possibility of other related certifications and/or conferences if deemed necessary at the time.
Advanced knowledge of and experience with SPRAT Rope Access techniques and practices
Other benefits will be outlined in your new hire packet

Position Contract Period: The intended contract period for this position is one year. It would start in December following a summer season, ending in December of the following year after the summer. Contract length may be discussed and amended within reason, however, if desired.

Code of Conduct and Expectations:
The intern will abide by all codes of conduct as listed in the Camp Eagle Employee Handbook.
In addition to existing expectations, this position will be held to supplemental standards. Such standards may include the following:

Standards for safety and work at height as set forth by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Standards for work and facilitations of high-challenge course elements as set forth by the Association of Challenge Course Technology (ACCT)
Safe Practices for work at height as set forth by the Society for Professional Rope Access Technicians
Standards and safe practices as set forth by the National Rifle Association (NRA) for Range Safety Officers (RSO) for the operation of a firing range.
Camp Eagle policies and procedures

The Camp Eagle intern will have a strict standard of conduct, the violation of which will result in disciplinary action.

Disclaimer: This job description is not a complete picture of all tasks, duties, or community responsibilities and is subject to change at any time at the discretion of the Site Director(s) or CCM.

To Apply for this position copy and paste this link into your browser:
Joshua Roark
Nov 13, 2024, 2:34?PM (21 hours ago)
to EAC, Tuan, Stacie, me

https://apply.campeagle.org/?startApp=a11Rp0000062lLz&startName=Activities%20Intern

Time:  Internship
Salary:  Paid
Category:  Support Staff / Intern

Updated: 11/14/2024 12:09:11 PM