Woodshop Instructor Internship
– Camp Cobbossee for Boys –
Monmouth, Maine
Thank you 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 9th to August 10th, 2024.
Cobbossee is looking for a few talented and motivated Woodshop Instructors to intern this summer. The aim of this internship is to develop skills in Woodshop instruction and management for a range of campers aged 8-15.
The curriculum will vary in complexity and mediums, providing for complete beginners and for more advanced creative projects. Woodshop is one of the most oversubscribed areas of our program. Our campers LOVE building things and completing projects!
Our Head of Arts and Woodshop, Gregory Ondo, is an Associate professor of Sculpture at the University of Maine, Orono. Professor Ondo has been recognized for his high skill and excellent mentorship. You’ll learn a lot from him!
A Woodshop Intern will help keep the boys safe and grow their creative skills in the Woodshop Program, teaching them everything from basic safety to use of hand tools, power tools, and, when properly trained and vetted, shop machines.
Each Woodshop Instructor, like all of our male counselors at Cobbossee, also works as a residential Counselor, living in a bunk with (and caring for!) a set of campers. Working in the ‘Shop’ during the day. Female specialists will also be assigned a bunk to mentor, but will live with other female staff.
THE BENEFITS
- Internship credit
- Competitive salary
- Paid bonus
- Travel allowance
- Room and board, with famously good food.
- Facility access including our weight room
- Laundry service
- Days off spent outside of camp exploring beautiful Maine
- Network with other students from all over the world, we hire a third of our Counselors Internationally. The rest come from all over the US.
WHAT TO DO NEXT
You should immediately head to https://www.campcobbossee.com/experience/#work and apply online. One of our Staffing Directors, Jonesy or John, will be in touch very quickly. You can also reach out to them directly at staff@cobbossee.com
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. Please read our Handshake reviews.
You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.
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 a set amount of time: from a couple weeks to the entire summer at a sleepaway camp.
Sometimes people who are not from the east coast see this as a strange choice, maybe even a mean choice! “Don’t the parents like their kids?” the question goes. Of course they do. They love their children and 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.
Camps (especially longer-term camps of four-to-eight weeks) teach children independence, self-reliance, and confidence through the teaching of new skills, improving at sports, and living away from home. It isn’t always easy. But it is worth it!
Crucial to this process are you, the instructor-counselor. You become like a family member to the campers in your cabin. In fact, you will find yourself developing really fast yourself, just so you can be the best counselor and instructor possible for your kids! It is rewarding, challenging, and transformative work to care for campers.
You can see more, watch videos, and even “walk around at camp” here: www.campcobbossee.com