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Employment Opportunities

Thank you for your interest in employment with Austin Sunshine Camps.

Look for our 2024 application in early fall!

Seasonal Employment Opportunities

At Austin Sunshine Camps, we look for innovative, hard-working, radical change-makers who believe in the power of summer camp and believe that all kids deserve a place to grow, connect and explore.

At ASC, you will probably work the hardest you’ve worked in your life and make better friends and memories than you can imagine.

We are firmly committed to personal and professional growth for each member of our team. That relationship begins next summer and continues for a lifetime.

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Austin sunshine camps counselor talking with a camper near the zip line
Group of Austin Sunshine Camp Counselors and Volunteers Posing for a Group Photo
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Summer 2022 Schedule

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Assistant Camp Director

Under the supervision of the Camp Director, the Assistant Camp Director oversees the design of all camp activities and scheduling, and is crucial to our success at Austin Sunshine Camps!

The Assistant Camp Director is the leader for all counselors, ensuring they have all the tools and support they need to succeed. The Assistant Camp Director assists in addressing escalated camper situations, such as homesickness, and utilizes Restorative Practices to resolve conflicts. The Assistant Camp Director coordinates directly with the Camp Director to ensure that each session’s programming is being implemented with the highest quality.

Austin Sunshine Camp campers playing a game of pool

Program Coordinator

The most critical role of the Program Coordinator is being detail oriented and being able to focus both on safety and fun in all activities and programs.

As part of the leadership team, alongside the Camp Director, Assistant Camp Director, and the CIT & Collegiate Volunteer Coordinator, Program Coordinators drive camp culture, ensuring we are building an intentional community for campers that is rooted in compassion, and builds a space that is both safe and FUN!

Group of Austin Sunshine Camp campers paddling a canoe

CIT & Collegiate Volunteer Coordinator

As part of the leadership team, alongside the Camp Director, Assistant Camp Director, and Program Coordinator(s), the CIT & Collegiate Volunteer Coordinator, drives camp culture, ensuring we are building an intentional community for campers that is rooted in compassion, and builds a space that is both safe and FUN!

Under the supervision of the Camp Director, the CIT & Collegiate Volunteer Coordinator leads scheduling of CITs and collegiate volunteers, facilitates training sessions, as well as supervises and evaluates all CITs and collegiate volunteers during their camp sessions.

Ultimately, the CIT & Collegiate Volunteer Coordinator is tasked with ensuring that CITs and Collegiate Volunteers receive the support and direction needed to help campers grow, connect, and explore at camp, and to help CITs and Collegiate Volunteers be successful in their roles at camp!

Austin Sunshine Camps camper coloring with chalk

Camper Wellness Coordinator

The primary role of the Camper Wellness Coordinator will be to ensure an environment that accounts for the unique needs of each camper, and ensures the mental, emotional, social, and physical safety of all campers.

During pre-camp training, the Camper Wellness Coordinator will help develop training materials, resources and tools to equip summer staff members on how to appropriately respond in times of mental or emotional crises. These tools will be developed using a trauma-informed and compassionate approach in a manner that empowers campers and helps them develop skills.

During camp sessions, as needed, the Camper Wellness Coordinator will provide support to the campers via one-on-one and/or group sessions (“circles”) to ensure our campers ongoing mental health and well being. While camp is in session, the Camper Wellness Coordinator will also be the primary resource for staff members during on-site mental health crisis interventions, as well as any needed follow up after the emergency.

Young boy with tray of food.

Camp Health Officer/Camp Nurse

The primary role of the Camp Health Officer/Camp Nurse will be to ensure an environment that accounts for the unique health needs of each camper, staff member, and volunteer, and ensures the mental, emotional, social, and physical safety of all campers, staff members, and volunteers.

The Camp Health Officer/Camp Nurse provides First Aid care for campers and staff, oversees the administration of medications to campers and staff, communicates with parents and coordinates visits to a physician when needed, monitors health standards, organizes camper and staff medical paperwork and maintains file organization. The important work of the Camp Health Officer/Camp Nurse includes monitoring and evaluating camp procedures, facilities, and conditions and suggesting modifications that would create more healthful conditions at camp.

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Camp Counselor

Camp Counselors are the reason campers will have the time of their life at camp. Camp Counselors strive to bring the best versions of themselves to camp every single day, creating a sense of awe amongst their campers with their energy, joy, and a sense of belonging. Camp Counselors are the guiding force for our camper’s time at summer camp, and at Austin Sunshine Camps they are passionate about fulfilling our vision for each one of the kids in their cabin. In short, Camp Counselors bring the MAGIC of camp to ASC!

Under the supervision of the Program Coordinators, Camp Counselors help to implement all camp activities while supervising youth, and are crucial to our success at Austin Sunshine Camps!

Camp Counselors are key players in ensuring campers aged 8-15 have the absolute best camp experience possible. Our typical counselor-to-camper ratio is 1 counselor for every 3-4 campers, with a Counselor-in-Training (CIT) providing support in the cabin each session. The main role of our Camp Counselors, along with a co-counselor, is to be in charge of the experience, well-being, and needs of a cabin of campers, 22 hours a day, for ten days and nine nights.

The best Camp Counselors focus on building relationships with their campers, and ensure their campers feel safe, supported and empowered. They help campers resolve conflict with each other restoratively, support campers in building skills in emotional regulation, and give campers intentional freedom and choice.

Austin Sunshine Camper taking a photo with an Austin Sunshine Camp counselor

Camp Counselor & Lifeguard

Camp Counselors are the reason campers will have the time of their life at camp, and Lifeguards ensure the safety of all campers and staff in all waterfront activities in Barton Springs, Lady Bird Lake or Lake Travis.

Camp Counselors strive to bring the best versions of themselves to camp every single day, creating a sense of awe amongst their campers with their energy, joy, and a sense of belonging. Camp Counselors are the guiding force for our camper’s time at summer camp, and at Austin Sunshine Camps they are passionate about fulfilling our vision for each one of the kids in their cabin. In short, Camp Counselors bring the MAGIC of camp to ASC!

Lifeguards ensure that campers have a safe and fun experience in the water during the heat of a Texas summer, giving kids and staff members an opportunity to safely have fun in the water while creating memories with one another.

Under the supervision of the Program Coordinators, Camp Counselors help to implement all camp activities while supervising youth, and are crucial to our success at Austin Sunshine Camps!

Camp Counselors are key players in ensuring campers aged 8-15 have the absolute best camp experience possible. Our typical counselor-to-camper ratio is 1 counselor for every 3-4 campers, with a Counselor-in-Training (CIT) providing support in the cabin each session. The main role of our Camp Counselors, along with a co-counselor, is to be in charge of the experience, well-being, and needs of a cabin of campers, 22 hours a day, for ten days and nine nights.

The best Camp Counselors focus on building relationships with their campers, and ensure their campers feel safe, supported and empowered. They help campers resolve conflict with each other restoratively, support campers in building skills in emotional regulation, and give campers intentional freedom and choice.

Canoeing on Lady Bird Lake

Kitchen Manager

The primary role of the Kitchen Manager will be to ensure an environment that accounts for the unique dietary and nutritional needs of each camper, staff member, and volunteer. Kitchen Managers prepare and serve delicious and nutritious meals, three times a day, as well as snack 2-3 times per day, while maintaining a budget.

The Kitchen Manager ensures our kitchen runs smoothly and complies with safety regulations, manages all kitchen staff, oversees the preparation of food, communicates with parents about camper’s dietary needs, restrictions, or preferences, monitors health standards of the kitchen, organizes all food items in accordance with health code standards, and maintains inventory. The important work of the Kitchen Manager includes monitoring and evaluating camp procedures, facilities, and conditions and suggesting modifications that would create more healthful conditions at camp.

The Kitchen Manager will work alongside the Camp Directors to develop meal plans and accommodations for campers, and will communicate those plans to parents, to counselors and to all relevant staff. The Kitchen Manager will work directly with the Camp Director to ensure that food service and programming are aligned at the highest level of standards when it pertains to dietary and nutritional needs of participants.

Two Lake Travis campers eating

Kitchen Assistant

The primary role of the Kitchen Assistant will be to work with the Kitchen Manager to ensure an environment that accounts for the unique dietary and nutritional needs of each camper, staff member, and volunteer. Kitchen Assistants prepare and serve delicious and nutritious meals, three times a day, as well as snacks 2-3 times per day.

The Kitchen Assistant helps the Kitchen Manager ensure that safety regulations are followed, helps with the preparation of food, helps monitor health standards of the kitchen, assists in organization of all food items in accordance with health code standards, and helps take inventory.

The Kitchen Assistant will work alongside the Kitchen Manager and Camp Directors to develop meal plans and accommodations for campers or staff with any specific dietary needs, in order to give them the ability to safely stay at and participate in camp, and will communicate those plans to parents, to counselors and to all relevant staff.

We are looking to hire a dedicated and reliable Kitchen Assistant to aid the Kitchen Manager with ingredient preparation and cooking delicious meals for 130 campers and staff, as well as perform all washing and cleaning duties required in the kitchen. Kitchen Assistants work approximately six to nine hours per day.

Young girl carrying a tray of food.