Woodshop Instructor Internship
Woodshop Instructor Internship / Cabin Counselor
– Camp Cobbossee for Boys –
Monmouth, Maine
Thanks for your interest in working at Camp Cobbossee!
THE JOB
Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 10th to August 14th, 2021.
Cobbossee is looking for a few talented and motivated Woodshop Instructors / Counselors this summer.
Each Woodshop Instructor/Counselor lives in a bunk with (and cares for!) a set of campers and works at the ‘Shop during the day. The daily program at the woodshop includes working with the major woodworking machines (drill press, various saws, lathes, and hand tools) and helping our boys make their ideas into projects! This position is also responsible for the upkeep of the Woodshop and equipment and generally contributing to a strong team. You want to belong to an amazing craft program, and continue developing your teaching, coaching, and leading in a woodshop context? This is for you.
THE BENEFITS
In addition to your salary and bonus, Cobbossee will provide you with a travel stipend so you can get out to Maine without spending your own money.
Room and board is also provided, so you won’t spend any of your own money all summer on living expenses (the food is famously good at Cobbossee. No, really, it is).
Further, days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year.
OTHER POSSIBLE BENEFITS
We can configure your employment this summer as job training, an internship, or just a really great summer job. Our director, Josh Holland, is a former academic and can make sure your experience is converted into internship credit if that’s what you want. If you are in any child-centered major (teaching, education, coaching) or any sports-related field (sports management, kinesiology, movement, physical-education), this experience can be one of the best paid internships you can find.
THE BOTTOM LINE
“Summer jobs” are often seen as throwaway jobs. Not here. This job is going to challenge you. You are going to give of yourself, have an absolute blast, develop strong friendships with your peers, and really make a difference in young people’s lives.
You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. We develop counselors like we develop campers. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.
WHAT TO DO NEXT
You should apply here on handshake and get ready to hear from us fast. Also, we are going to ask you for references, so get those ready, too.
For anyone not familiar with the huge world of sleepaway camps in New England, it works like this:
All over the northeast each summer, families send their boys and girls up to New England to spend anywhere from a couple weeks to the entire summer at a sleepaway camp. Don't they love their kids? Of course they do. It's hard for them to be away from them for the time they are at camp. But parents sacrifice time with their kids in the summer because summer camp is really good for young children. It isn’t always easy. But it is worth it! Crucial to this process is you, the counselor. You become like a family member to the campers in your cabin.