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• Excellent communication (Participants, Grown-ups, Co-workers, Supervisors).
• Organizational skills (Attendance keeping, activity timing).
• This position may count as an internship if needed.

Safety & Wellbeing
•Maintains a safe space for campers, including careful supervision of campers and communicating any safety concerns to camp supervisors.
•Clearly communicates camp rules and expectations with campers and staff.
•Enforces and follows all camp rules and expectations.
•Consistent with rules and follows through with consequences and rewards.
•Appropriately responds to and uses behavioral management methods effectively as needed to mitigate camper behavioral issues.
•Maintains ratios.
•Follows Two-Deep Policy.
•Follows safety procedures such as head counts and safe travel actions.
•Builds and creates an environment that supports and encourages camper and staff wellbeing.
•Set up and take down activity space. Ensure spaces are clean and organized.

Engagement
•Actively participates with campers in camp activities and conversation.
•Organizes and facilitates small and large group activities.
•Encourages campers to try new activities, share their opinions, or help facilitate activities.
•Acts as a role model by participating in camp activities and building relationships.
•Builds relationships and successfully collaborates with all campers and coworkers.
•Takes initiative to develop and execute plans for implementing new ideas and/or activities.
•Avoids using devices for personal use throughout the day.
•Creates and encourages a welcoming work environment where everyone feels comfortable sharing their opinions and beliefs.
•Shares responsibility and leadership by taking on different roles (facilitator, behavior management, etc.).
•Shares knowledge and experience with others.

Communication
•Uses age-appropriate language with campers
•Communicates early, often, and thoroughly with campers, coworkers, supervisors, and professional staff.
•Uses professional and appropriate communication with grown-ups and/or communicates with supervisors about grown-up discussion topics in a timely manner.
•Completes required forms and includes all pertinent information or ideas.
•Communicates clearly using the radio.
•Keeps track of time throughout the program.
•Advocates for group and self needs.

Professionalism and Growth
•Demonstrates professional, respectful, and positive actions and attitudes.
•Is upfront, honest, and genuine when interacting with others.
•Provides feedback and suggestions in a respectful manner.
•Receives feedback and suggestions as opportunities to learn and improve and attempts to implement suggestions.
•Uses resources to solve problems and answer questions.
•Asks questions as needed.
•Demonstrates the ability and willingness to engage in constructive conversations with coworkers, including delivering feedback, addressing concerns, and resolving interpersonal or team-related issues with professionalism and empathy.
•Confident in independent decision making.
•Identifies transferable skills in current role for future career plans.
•Participate in onboarding, orientation, and youth safety training. Must be available for all staff orientation dates June 8 - June 12.
•Engage in weekly staff meetings with the Community Programs team. These occur on Wednesdays from 5-5:45pm.

•Other duties as assigned.

• Must be able to project voice when giving instructions to the group in large, busy spaces with or without accommodations.
• Ability to navigate campus and public transportation with or without accommodations

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/