Sacred Heart University
Summer Camp Athletics Counselor – Baseball
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, us, 06828
Summer Camp Athletics Counselor – Baseball
Recruitment began on December 31, 2025
and the job listing Expires on January 31, 2026
Summer Camp Athletics Counselor – Baseball Camp Poyntelle has been making children’s summer dreams come true since 1948. As a premier summer camp, we offer a traditional sleepaway experience filled with amazing memories, lasting friendships, and nurturing and compassionate staff. We feel that camp is one of the few places a child can be their own person, without judgment or social pressure. Our intentional community is designed to allow kids to be kids in a low‑key, fun, and inclusive environment.
Description As a member of the Athletics department, an athletic specialist works alongside our Area Directors to plan and implement the program in each sport. This includes running regularly scheduled activity periods, more intense and immersive elective periods, and working with teams of campers that will go off to compete in camp tournaments. Each specialist is also a bunk staff member. This means that the specialist is assigned to, lives in and is responsible for a bunk of campers alongside his or her co‑counselors. As a result, each specialist also sits nighttime duty in their bunk, sits with their campers at meals, and attends trips with his bunk. In total, the athletic specialists are very much an integral part of both the athletic department and their bunk community.
Salary starts at $2350 for the 9‑week contract. Room and board provided. Potential for additional work beyond the 9‑week contract at a weekly rate with continued room and board.
This is a residential summer camp where you would be living on site for the summer with room and all meals included.
Minimum Qualifications
Training, coaching or other experience in athletics and specific sport (including but not limited to soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis/pickleball, volleyball, football, and/or Krav Maga)
Ability to teach skills in the sport
Ability to set up demonstration area and program, and to teach skills to staff and campers of all ages
Ability to organize equipment, communicate with athletic area directors
Desire and ability to work outdoors
Ability to lift equipment of up to 100 pounds, line fields, maintain sports apparatus
Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, and self‑control
College student or equivalent of at least 18 years of age
Program Responsibilities
Help plan and run each bunk rotation period throughout the day for a variety of age groups and for both girls and boys
Plan and implement two to three day electives for individual campers to choose; market your elective to all campers during sign‑up
Alongside the area director for your area, keep your facility in good condition – including taking and keeping inventory for each type of equipment, maintaining the courts/fields by regularly cleaning and touching up as necessary (e.g. lining soccer fields)
Communicate regularly with Area Director to make sure program is being put together to the highest possible standard
Bunk Responsibilities
Watch after and care for the campers in their bunk during all periods not at their specialty area – this includes meals, rest hour, clean up, shower hour, and evening program
Watch and be responsible for groups of their campers for off‑camp trips to amusement parks, baseball games, bowling alleys, etc.
Sit nighttime duty in their bunk to make sure campers are going to sleep and are taken care of (2 nights per week)
Attend staff meetings, complete staff training and regularly communicate with division head to make sure all the needs of the campers are being met
Essential Functions
Ability to communicate and train staff and campers in safety regulations and emergency procedures
Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards related to the activity
Ability to communicate and work with group participating and provide instructions
Ability to observe camper behavior, assess appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures and behavioral management techniques
Ability to assist campers in case of emergency (fire, evacuation, illness, injury, inclement weather, intruder on premises, national emergency)
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and the job listing Expires on January 31, 2026
Summer Camp Athletics Counselor – Baseball Camp Poyntelle has been making children’s summer dreams come true since 1948. As a premier summer camp, we offer a traditional sleepaway experience filled with amazing memories, lasting friendships, and nurturing and compassionate staff. We feel that camp is one of the few places a child can be their own person, without judgment or social pressure. Our intentional community is designed to allow kids to be kids in a low‑key, fun, and inclusive environment.
Description As a member of the Athletics department, an athletic specialist works alongside our Area Directors to plan and implement the program in each sport. This includes running regularly scheduled activity periods, more intense and immersive elective periods, and working with teams of campers that will go off to compete in camp tournaments. Each specialist is also a bunk staff member. This means that the specialist is assigned to, lives in and is responsible for a bunk of campers alongside his or her co‑counselors. As a result, each specialist also sits nighttime duty in their bunk, sits with their campers at meals, and attends trips with his bunk. In total, the athletic specialists are very much an integral part of both the athletic department and their bunk community.
Salary starts at $2350 for the 9‑week contract. Room and board provided. Potential for additional work beyond the 9‑week contract at a weekly rate with continued room and board.
This is a residential summer camp where you would be living on site for the summer with room and all meals included.
Minimum Qualifications
Training, coaching or other experience in athletics and specific sport (including but not limited to soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis/pickleball, volleyball, football, and/or Krav Maga)
Ability to teach skills in the sport
Ability to set up demonstration area and program, and to teach skills to staff and campers of all ages
Ability to organize equipment, communicate with athletic area directors
Desire and ability to work outdoors
Ability to lift equipment of up to 100 pounds, line fields, maintain sports apparatus
Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, and self‑control
College student or equivalent of at least 18 years of age
Program Responsibilities
Help plan and run each bunk rotation period throughout the day for a variety of age groups and for both girls and boys
Plan and implement two to three day electives for individual campers to choose; market your elective to all campers during sign‑up
Alongside the area director for your area, keep your facility in good condition – including taking and keeping inventory for each type of equipment, maintaining the courts/fields by regularly cleaning and touching up as necessary (e.g. lining soccer fields)
Communicate regularly with Area Director to make sure program is being put together to the highest possible standard
Bunk Responsibilities
Watch after and care for the campers in their bunk during all periods not at their specialty area – this includes meals, rest hour, clean up, shower hour, and evening program
Watch and be responsible for groups of their campers for off‑camp trips to amusement parks, baseball games, bowling alleys, etc.
Sit nighttime duty in their bunk to make sure campers are going to sleep and are taken care of (2 nights per week)
Attend staff meetings, complete staff training and regularly communicate with division head to make sure all the needs of the campers are being met
Essential Functions
Ability to communicate and train staff and campers in safety regulations and emergency procedures
Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards related to the activity
Ability to communicate and work with group participating and provide instructions
Ability to observe camper behavior, assess appropriateness, enforce appropriate safety regulations and emergency procedures and behavioral management techniques
Ability to assist campers in case of emergency (fire, evacuation, illness, injury, inclement weather, intruder on premises, national emergency)
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