SocialWorks’ Kids of the Kingdom summer day camp is hiring counselors & classes! Check out the detailed job descriptions below.

Apply here: bit.ly/kok-2022-application

Positions / Classes:

Kingdom Counselors

Serves as a camp counselor at the Progressive Location (3658 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60609). Facilitating and supporting campers directly, this position is in charge of ensuring campers are accounted for and arrive at their respective destinations safely. Kingdom Counselors will be assigned to a pod of 10 campers of the same age range and gender. This seasonal paid position reports to the Assistant Camp Director, requires Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4pm availability, an age of at least 16 years old, and carries no employee benefits or paid time off.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Paid Position
• Must be available Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4pm
• Must be at least 16 years old
• Must have experience in Child Care, Youth Programming, Teaching, or Camp Counseling
• Must Reside in Cook County
• Foster a supportive, safe, and positive camp environment in compliance with policy and regulations
• Prepare camp equipment for use
• Constant communication with Camp Director, Teachers, and Kingdom Lead
• Maintain a clean environment
• Preference – Bachelor’s Degree, Drivers License, and Social Emotional Learning training
• Supervise camper check-in and pick-up
• Participate in all programming

Drama Class

Serves as a Drama class for 5-13-year-old boys and girls within the Progressive (3658 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60609) and Lilydale (424 Indianwood Blvd, Park Forest, IL) locations. This class will take place Wednesdays between the times of 1pm – 2pmCT between Monday, June 20th – Friday, August 5th. Facilitators are required to provide 2-4 staff members and a 7-week curriculum.

Learning Outcomes:

• To create social and emotional awareness within our students
• To help students develop empathy and to understand their own feelings, as well as the feelings of others
• Develop focus and concentration through participation in drama activities.
• Engage in dramatic play to create and review stories.
• Use movement and pantomime to express emotions, characters and stories.
• Identify the primary tools of the actor.
• Solve problems through creative dramatics.
• Portray characters vocally and non-vocally.
• Participate in collaborative decision-making about artistic choices.
• Develop spatial awareness and physical control of themselves.
• Use their own words to create and retell stories.
• Develop gestures and vocal expression.
• Work in pairs to create, rehearse and perform brief stories.
• Reflect on their own work and the work of classmates.
• Recognize plot sequence in performance and be able to act out simple dramas in linear and non-linear forms.
• Culminate in a performance at the end of camp.

Boys Dance Class

Serves as a Dance class for 5-13-year-old boys within the Progressive (3658 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60609) and Lilydale (424 Indianwood Blvd, Park Forest, IL) locations. This class will take place Mondays between the times of 1pm – 2pmCT between Monday, June 20th – Friday, August 5th. Facilitators are required to provide 2-4 staff members and a 7-week curriculum.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students are introduced to the structure of a dance class.
• Students are introduced to 2-3 different types of dance.
• Focus on introductory/beginner-level movement in each of the dance techniques.
• Introduction to dance vocabulary.
• Introduction to performance skills.
• Introduction to improvisation.
• Introduction to performance skills.
• Culminate in a performance at the end of camp.

Cosmetology

Serves as a Cosmetology class for the 5-9 and 10-13-year-olds boys and girls within the Progressive (3658 S Wentworth Ave, Chicago, IL 60609) and Lilydale (424 Indianwood Blvd, Park Forest, IL) locations. This class will take place Wednesdays between the times of 2pm – 3pmCT between Monday, June 20th – Friday, August 5th. Facilitators are required to provide 2-4 staff members and a 7-week curriculum.

Learning Outcomes:

• Gain a positive attitude, sense of personal integrity, and self-confidence.
• Practice effective communication skills, visual poise, and proper grooming.
• Respect the need to deliver worthy service for a value received in a customer-client relationship
• Perform the basic manipulative skills in the area of hair care, nail care, and skincare.
• Perform basic analytical skills to determine appropriate hair care, nail care, and skincare services to achieve the best total look for each client.
• Apply academic and practical learning and related information to ensure sound judgments, decisions, and procedures.

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