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Gap Year Director

Job Title: Gap Year Director
Department: Programs
Reports To: Director of Programs

About Us
Camp Eagle started in 1999. We are located in a truly wild and beautiful place in the hill country of Texas. Camp is blessed to steward 1,400 acres along the headwaters of the spring-fed Nueces River, which is 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 are built around this. It is woven into the daily fabric of our work here.

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 special 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 skill set. If you enjoy collaborating and problem-solving rather than doing what you’ve always done, the way you’ve always done it, you’ll fit right in.
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.
We serve alongside each other. Often, we are dropping our normal job to do something different: pitching in to help each other. 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 reconnect to why we are here. Whether we are jumping in on a summer staff training or helping with some programming so we have that touchstone to why we do this. We solve problems through the lens of our mission statement and playbook. We enjoy 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 affects some staff more than others which can be frustrating.
We can become siloed sometimes during a busy season.

There’s a lot of beauty in a community that lives and works in close proximity but it magnifies the need for healthy reconciliation.

What We Believe:
For a detailed description of what we believe, please visit our website https://campeagle.org/who-we-are/

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Dates
This is a full–time position. The Gap Year season is mid-August to mid-May, but the Gap Year Director’s responsibilities are year-round.

Job Purpose
The purpose of the Walkabout Director is to utilize all aspects of our mission statement to accomplish its purpose by helping students discover, deepen, and deploy. Walkabout is a nine-month residential gap-gear program for students 18 to 24 years of age that focuses on self-discovery, service, and Christian discipleship. It is the responsibility of the Walkabout director to equip, guide, and train students through Bible classes, mentoring, service, and leadership opportunities. This includes but is not limited to, the following tasks: develop and maintain relationships with Walkabout students, mentor students one-on-one consistently, lead multi-day adventure and experiential trips, oversee and enforce Walkabout rules, lead Bible studies, teach Walkabout classes, promote the program through marketing onsite and offsite, oversee Walkabout meals, develop and maintain structures that assist Walkabout community living (chore charts, etc), help with Walkabout training, and anything else necessary for successful program implementation. This role is ideal for someone who has a passion and gift for discipleship in a tight community with a backdrop of adventure.

JOB DUTIES:
General:
Pray for the Walkabout students, leaders, and program.
Coordinate the teaching of Walkabout classes and teach classes according to desire, personal skill, and knowledge base.
Train Walkabout students in Camp Eagle-required skills according to personal skill and knowledge base.
Facilitate, organize, and lead Walkabout off-site trips.
Provide supervision and accountability for Walkabout-specific tasks including chores, food preparation and cleanup, cleaning of Walkabout facilities, and other Walkabout community tasks.
Spend time with Walkabout students. (1) lead weekly Bible studies, and (2) mentor students in a one-on-one format daily (except for personal days off).
Spend recreational and/or exercise time with Walkabout students regularly (except for personal days off) and help guide them in decisions about their future.
Monitor and help to maintain a healthy community environment for the Walkabout student.
Monitor for quality in the Walkabout program in all areas and help remedy areas that need to be fixed.
Help administer discipline to Walkabout students when needed.
Interview and accept students into the program.
Work to reach goals for the program including the number of participants and revenue goals.
Terminate students from the program when appropriate after consulting with the Discipleship guide and confirming with the Director of Programs.

OFFICE:
Work with the Discipleship Guide/s to create and organize weekly and hourly Walkabout schedules.
Develop new program experiences for Walkabout.
Work with Discipleship Guide/s to create systems for Walkabout-specific tasks including chores, food preparation and cleanup, cleaning of Walkabout facilities, and other Walkabout community tasks.
Help market for the Walkabout Program through phone calls, visits, print, e-mail, web, and other media.
Perform any other administrative tasks required for the Walkabout program's success.
Meet with the Director of Programs for tactical meetings regularly.
Meet with Discipleship Guide/s for a weekly tactical meeting, daily prayer, and team meetings.

Other Duties of ALL Camp Eagle Staff:
Camp Eagle operates year-round. We have guests on the premises almost every day of the year. Serving guests is our number one priority, and therefore ALL staff must participate in guest service in some capacity. Tasks may include cooking, cleaning, facilitating group activities, running retail locations, general maintenance of the camp property, and work projects as needed. There are often groups here on weekends, and all staff members will be required to work on certain weekends as needed.

Education, Abilities, Skills, Experience:
The “ideal” candidate will have:
Strong sense of calling to lead intensive Christian discipleship for 18-24-year-olds.
At least 26 years of age.
A Master’s Degree is preferred in the field of Christian ministry.
Wilderness First Responder Certified.
Ability to lead or help lead Walkabout students in outdoor adventure trips.
Love for the outdoors and outdoor adventure with a preference for outdoor adventure leadership experience.
Willingness and ability to walk with 18-24-year-olds in an invested life-on-life situation over nine months.
Willing and able to live life in the Camp Eagle community.
Ability to help guide 18-24-year-olds in decisions about their future life direction.
Ability to work flexible and often long hours.
Willingness to spend up to 50 days annually leading Walkabout trips.
Ability to confront, encourage, and inspire Walkabout students towards excellence in their work and lives.
Ability to administer appropriate consequences (using the system of demerits) to Walkabout students, when needed.
Ability to live in a setting where job duties may fluctuate and change daily.
Ability to easily communicate with college-age students and other staff members professionally and politely.
Comfortable teaching Bible studies in small group settings.
Administrative and organizational skills.
Ability to professionally represent the Walkabout Program in marketing situations.
Ability to communicate with parents of Walkabout students and sometimes mediate between students and parents.

Work Context
This job will be performed primarily on location at Camp Eagle, but it does require up to 50 days of travel.

Compensation
Annual Salary, on-site housing and basic utilities, medical plan, 401(k) retirement package after one year, paid vacation time.

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 Director.

To Apply for this position go https://apply.campeagle.org/?startApp=a11Rp000006NqVW&startName=Gap%20Year%20Director

Time:  Full-Time Year Round
Salary:  Paid
Category:  Gap Year

Updated: 12/6/2024 11:37:47 AM