Vacant job

Do you want to broaden your knowledge as an educator while also developing personally? Then apply for a summer job as a camp leader at our camp site Akka this summer.

Job Responsibilities

Your role as a camp leader at Akka's camp site is to be responsible for children aged 9-13 years and to plan and lead activities for this participant group. Camp involves around-the-clock activities for the youth and us leaders. As a leader, you live and work at the camp site alongside the children and youth. Therefore, you need to be comfortable being away from home for at least 6 weeks.

Who are we looking for?

A significant part of the job is to meet the needs of young people and be able to guide them in their decisions. To meet this, we believe you need to be secure in yourself, your leadership role, and be able to set boundaries. You should also feel comfortable engaging in more life-oriented conversations. This is largely similar to working in schools where there are demands to set boundaries while also creating relationships to ensure a safe environment.

Personal qualities:

• responsible
• problem-solver
• good at juggling many tasks
• initiative-driven
• creative
• boundary setter
• organized
• punctual
• team player
• secure in oneself and one’s educational role

It is also important that you can give and receive feedback and have the ambition and desire to develop the organization and yourself together with us. You should be flexible and resilient as the work shifts can be both long and demanding. To work as a camp leader, we believe that qualities such as the ability to take space in a group, to make mistakes and joke around, and to make decisions are necessary. We place great value on humor and social competence.

Experience

You who are applying should have a strong interest in being outdoors or experience in outdoor education, as the majority of our activities take place outside. We believe that those who have experience with children in the middle school age would fit this role well, as working with children requires difficult boundary-setting and relationship-building. We believe that you who have experience with elementary school students have a good foundation to succeed in your work as a camp leader. Activities we do include hiking, building rafts, climbing, swimming, and cooking outdoors. We will also have artistic activities such as theater, dance, and singing. Disco, football tournaments, and themed days are also on the schedule.

Experience/competence in any of these areas is desirable:

• camp/camp activities
• outdoor life
• healthcare
• paddling
• theater
• singing, music
• sports
• cooking
• community life

About the Company

Utepedagogik Sverige AB conducts camp activities at several different camp sites across Sweden for children and youth aged 9-16 years, focusing on adventure and outdoor educational activities. The cornerstones of Utepedagogik Sverige AB's pedagogical camp activities are: safety, quality, security, and community, as well as having trained adults with a broad competence serving as good role models. Our motto is "with us, one should feel safe enough to be who they want to be".

Employment Conditions

The position is full-time. You must be able to attend our training days on-site at the camp in Värmland from May 9th to May 12th, and from June 8th to June 12th. During the summer, you need to be able to work and thus be away from home for at least six weeks during the period from June 13th to August 18th.

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