Job DetailsJob Location Bette Perot - Palestine, TX Position Type Seasonal DescriptionAbout Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas: Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) offers amazing opportunities for talented, forward-thinking individuals who share our vision of helping girls and young women change the world for the better. Here's your opportunity to enhance your career while making a difference in girls' lives and in the world. At Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, you can build a rewarding career in everything from working hands-on with girls, to accounting, human resources and project management, to marketing, research-and more. About Camp Bette Perot: Camp Bette Perot, our equestrian camp near Palestine, TX, offers weekend camping for girls ages 5-18 with their troops or families. We serve approximately 200 campers per week from a variety of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Staff primarily work Saturdays and Sundays, with some Friday work available. Fall season runs September through December. Spring season runs January through May. Job summary: Kitchen Crew prepare food, serve, clean up, support the dining environment, and provide excellent customer service. There may be opportunities to assist with outdoor activities or general camp operations also. Paid kitchen training can be provided. Expectations:
- Willingness to be active outdoors in variable weather conditions all year, including walking around camp on uneven terrain
- Willingness to work in a camp setting with exposure to wildlife, including bugs, spiders, and snakes.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Champion a positive, inclusive, caring, safe, and fun camp environment and promote the values of the Girl Scout Promise and Law, including serving as a positive role model for youth in language, dress, culture of inclusion, behavior, and attitude.
- Work in a team with other camp staff for effective meal service, including preparing, serving, and cleaning up. Complete camp support tasks as assigned, such as organizing, inventorying, assembling, tidying, and more.
- Facilitate positive group experiences in the camp setting, including advocating for camper responsibility, challenge seeking, teamwork, learning, goal setting, and opportunities for personal and group success.
- Adhere to camp schedule and direct campers and self to assigned spaces on time.
- Assist in care of campsite facilities, equipment, and supplies, including managing resources wisely.
- Practice all camp safety standards and emergency procedures and uphold them with others.
- Work independently and take initiative to implement solutions to problems that arise, where appropriate.
- Work effectively with various team members and various levels of the GSNETX organization, including promoting a climate of courtesy, respect, and professionalism and adhering to camp culture.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QualificationsMinimum requirements:
- Maintain skills and certifications to support activities offered at camp (training will be provided).
- Willingness to be active indoors and outdoors in variable weather conditions all day (heat, cold, rain, humidity, wind, snow) and to walk extensively around camp.
- Willingness to work respectfully and fruitfully with diverse staff and campers all day.
- Willingness to role model respect, positivity, smiling, cheerfulness, kindness, patience, honesty, inclusion, good mental hygiene, and accountability and to self-regulate emotions respectfully in a variety of circumstances.
- Willingness to listen to, learn from, and cooperate with others.
- Willingness to abstain from use of tobacco products, herbal intoxicants (CBD, THC, gummies, etc.), vaping and electronic cigarettes, alcohol, illegal drugs, firearms, and fireworks while on camp property or while on duty, plus abstain from possessing on camp property and from returning to camp under the influence of any such substances.
- Demonstrate and promote a climate of courtesy, respect and professionalism to coworkers, the volunteers served by this council, and others with whom this job puts them in contact.
- Adheres to the GSNETX's equal opportunity and non-discrimination policies, which ensure that there will be no discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, sex, creed, national origin, socioeconomic status, disability, or age.
- The employee must sometimes lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Upon employment, employee must register as an adult member in the Girl Scout organization and subscribe to the tenets of the Girl Scout Promise and Law.
- Attendance is an essential job requirement defined as having regular, consistent, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance including the ability to work regular hours and shifts, before and after hours, and on weekends, when required.
- Must complete and pass a criminal background check.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience serving youth in a work or volunteer setting.
- Experience participating in outdoor activities or working in a commercial kitchen.
- Current certifications appreciated in any of the following: first aid and CPR, lifeguarding, challenge course, archery, or fishing.
Our Organization's Cultural Values:
- We are relevant.
- We strive for equity.
- We put our stakeholders first.
- We collaborate to get the best results.
- We own our work.
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics, including race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or age. Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to speak or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, work in an office environment, work in a seated position, and work with computers. The employee must be able to drive and have a valid driver's license. The employee must be able to lift or move 50 pounds or perform work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Activities occur both inside and outside and employee is subject to both environmental conditions; however, employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions. Certifications/Licenses: None required