Summer Camp Specialist

Eden Village Camp is looking for passionate educators to bring our specialty programs to life this summer. As a specialist, you would play a fundamental role in helping campers nurture connections with themselves, the community, and the Earth through your programming. We are hiring for the following specialty areas:

• Farm: Teach campers about organic farming, help foster our community’s connection to the land, and care for our three acres of farmland.

• Culinary Arts: Inspire creativity in the kitchen as you teach campers farm-to-table cooking skills utilizing the abundance of our farm.

• Herbalism: Empower campers to draw on the ancient wisdom of plant medicine by making teas, salves, soaps, tinctures, and more.

• Wilderness Survival: Immerse campers in deep connection with nature through teaching fire and shelter building, whittling, plant identification, bowdrill, and more.

• Music: At Eden Village, we don’t listen to any recorded music- we make it all ourselves! You’ll teach campers new instruments, how to write songs, form bands, and perform for each other.

• Art: Our art program is grounded in using natural materials to create beautiful and functional crafts like pottery, felting, candlemaking, and sewing that our campers can use in their everyday lives.

• Woodshop: Guide campers through hands-on woodworking projects as you create an environment of safety and creative empowerment.

• Ropes, Archery, and Sports: Create a safe and fun environment for campers to challenge themselves and build teamwork skills through climbing, belaying, archery, and sports.

Eden Village Camp is a non-profit overnight camp rooted in the Jewish vision of creating a more environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually connected world. We’re dedicated to providing campers with an incredible summer experience while empowering them to promote a vibrant future for themselves, their communities, and the planet. Learn more here! 

Requirements:

• Live on site at Eden Village Camp for the 9 week summer season
• Prior experience as an educator
• Basic knowledge of desired specialty area
• Work well on a team and be open to direction from your supervisor.
• Specialists must be at least 18 years old, and are expected to stay at camp the entire season and attend staff training. 

Expectations:

• Teach 3-4 programs every day for campers ages 8-16.
• Prepare lessons for campers age 8-16. You are coming into years of pre-written lesson plans with the ability to tinker and personalize. 
• Keep your program space safe, clean, and organized.
• Flexible and able to go with the flow as challenges arise 
• Community-minded with an emphasis on intentional Jewish community experience
• Excited to work with kids

Specialty areas have additional requirements and expectations specific to the specialty. To learn more about the specific specialty area you’re interested in, contact [email protected] 

All staff at Eden Village, regardless of their job, should expect to support the running of camp in a variety of ways that are not outlined here. As a community working collectively to keep 200 children safe and happy, each summer is full of unexpected blessings and challenges. We rely on our staff member’s flexibility to meet those challenges. 

Why you’ll love it! 

• Experience deep community with a vibrant staff of 120 young people from all over the world!  Our community values skills sharing, spiritual growth, and inclusivity. 
• You’ll enjoy three kosher, organic, locally sourced meals a day.
• We have a secret little room just for staff snack…and a not-so-secret not-so-little FARM full of fresh off the vine snacks! We’re munching on cherry tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, cucumbers, peaches, cherries, carrots, and so much more all summer long. 
• You get to hang out with goats! 
• We have staff fun activities in the evenings and staff-only swim a few times a week. 
• You’ll inspire kids to be more playful, kind, caring, joyful, and grateful - changing their lives and changing the world! 

Important Things to Know About Working at Eden Village:

• We are a pluralistic community, and we expect all staff to be able to live and work with kindness and respect with people from different backgrounds, political ideologies, religious and gender identities, etc, than themselves. 
• Our food is amazing! We eat mostly vegetarian food at Eden Village. We serve meat once per week and fish twice per week. Staff are not permitted to bring takeout or outside food into camp.
• All staff receive at least 2.5 hours off per day. 
• All staff receive days off. Specialist educators receive a 40-hour day off 6 times during the 8 weeks of camp. All other staff receive one 25-hour day off per week. 
• All staff are responsible for their travel to and from camp (unless you are coming with an international agency that books your travel for you). We are not able to host staff on site before or after your contracted start and end date.
• We hire staff from Israel, North America, South America, Europe, and all over the world. 
• There is no smoking or vaping allowed on site.
• All staff must be back in their bunks by midnight every night.