Land to Hand - Summer Camp Assistant Counselor
Seasonal - Summer 8 weeks of summer with an average of 30 hr/wk, Please look at the job description on our website for details: https://landtohandmt.org/about-us/staff/#hiring
Job Summary
Join our team and spend your summer helping kids connect with their food and how to grow and prepare it! Our four-day summer camps engage kids in hands-on, place-based experiential learning in the Wildcat Garden in Columbia Falls. Counselors are responsible for working as a part of a team to plan and deliver lessons on gardening, art, environmental stewardship, cooking, nutrition, play, and to ensure student safety. The schedule for this position is mostly fixed; instructors will work most weeks Monday - Thursday. See the detailed schedule below. All counselors are required to participate in the week of paid training June 10-13. All counselors will have the week of July 4th off. All counselors must be available to work a minimum of 3 weeks of summer camp.
To Apply
Please review this entire job description om our website: https://landtohandmt.org/about-us/staff/#hiring. It has very specific information about work days and hours. We also recommend reviewing our camp descriptions, available on our website: landtohandmt.org. Email a short description of why you’re interested with a list of relevant work/volunteer experience (or cover letter and resume) with the subject line “Summer Camp Counselor” to [email protected]. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.
Land to Hand MT is a non-profit, community organization founded by families, farmers, community leaders & eaters from around the Flathead Valley. The mission of Land to Hand Montana is to build a strong community food system that fosters socially just ways of accessing food.
Our work is focused on EDUCATION and ACCESS. To us, access to healthy, local food is vital for all members of our community. Food security means access by all people at all times to enough food for a healthy life. At a minimum, this includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate food and the assured ability to acquire personally acceptable foods in a socially acceptable way. Many people struggle to prioritize healthy, adequate food on a tight budget. Our Food for All programs help alleviate that stress of affording healthy, local food and give community members the opportunity to control their food choices.
For us, education is a way of ensuring that all people in our community know how to grow, cook, and enjoy food. Education can be empowering and we want to ensure that our community has access to the knowledge and resources to live resilient lives. Our education programs encourage all kids and adults to be a part of growing the next generation of cooks, gardeners, farmers, ranchers, seed savers, and eaters.
Land to Hand MT is an equal opportunity employer committed to equitable hiring practices, and believes that many of the qualifications and skills listed below can be taught to the right candidate. If you are interested in the position and enthusiastic, but do not meet all of the qualifications, we would love you to apply!