Description

About Camp Augusta: People can have a job, a career, or a calling. Camp Augusta is looking for folks who have a calling. Work, play, learn, struggle, and grow in a vibrant community this summer, facilitating the growth of children, yourself and others in the community. Just because you can get a job at any camp doesn’t mean that you want a job at any camp. Camp Augusta is different than most camps because we operate on a structure of flat hierarchy, consensu,s and intention with every action. We also have many activities that you are unlikely to find at other camps.
We are a residential summer camp located in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. We have six sessions during our season, 3 one-week and 3 two-week, with 100 campers (aged 8-16) each session. 

About the Village Leader: Are you ready to masterfully organize cabin activities, village activities, and ensure the needs of both campers and staff are met? Do you possess excellent communication, grammar and organizational skills, and exceptional emotional intelligence? If it's clear that we're talking about you here, please get in touch and find out what life-changing fun, challenge, and growth await you this summer!

Village Leaders are passionately devoted to being the support system for counselors. Each village of 5 cabins has its own Village Leader, and you are dedicated to overseeing and supporting the experience of each camper & counselor in your Village. Village Leaders organize cabin activities, village activities, and ensure that the needs of each camper and cabin are being met. During two-week sessions, you will work with the Program Directors and the Masters of Fun and Games to cultivate magical worlds within the weekend programming. VLs are dedicated to upholding Augusta’s leadership benchmarks by supporting and challenging counselors to grow and by being beacons within the camp community.  Village Leaders must possess excellent communication, grammar, and organizational skills. Apply if you are committed to upholding Augusta's leadership standards by supporting and challenging counselors to grow, while acting as a beacon of empathy and care within the camp community!

Pay for this role ranges from $11,000-$12,000, depending on your experience. This salary covers the main season dates of May 13th-August 9th. There are additional opportunities for pre- and post-season work, starting in late April and ending in mid-September.

By the end of August, your resume could read:

Camp Program Director - Camp Augusta Summer 2026

As Village Leader, I successfully collaborated with a team of six peers to implement safe and exciting individual and group activities during six sessions over nine weeks at a traditional overnight camp in Northern California. Mentored, supported, and evaluated seven counseling staff and liaised with parents and campers in a variety of contexts, including: medical emergencies, behavior management issues, homesickness, and counselor letters to the parents.

As a Village Leader, you will:

• Manage counselor and camper well-being and village life.
• Help build a culture within the staff team and your village that is fun, growth-oriented, caring, dedicated, and professional.
• Support the personal growth and professional growth of your counselors with regular formal and informal check-ins.
• Oversee the physical and emotional health of the counselors and the campers in the village you support in a caring and professional way, including
• supervising any special requirements for campers and supporting your counselors in any escalated camper challenges.
• Be an active member of the larger community by taking part in various domains of camp, from clinics to evening programs to cabin life.
• Manage and contribute to camp programming and experiences as a whole:
• Work with Program Directors and Operations Managers to coordinate scheduling and programming for the village that you support.
• Consult, improve, and hold standards for strong camp programs - including special wakeups, creative cabin programs, and meaningful evening cabin times
• Plan, execute, and supervise creative cabin and village activities.
• Use excellent communication and emotional intelligence, in addition to organizational skills, to promote joyful and magical experiences for your counselors and their campers.

What we offer:

• Salary of $11k-$12k depending on experience.
• Housing and meals are provided. Meals are made fresh, locally sourced, and organic.
• Close-knit and supportive community of diverse staff from all over the planet.
• Housing is rustic and on-site - live in a platform tent, cabin, or even a treehouse if you'd like!
• Potential for training/certifications paid by Augusta, including lifeguarding, Challenge Course, First Aid/CPR.
• The depth of training and ongoing professional support you will receive as a Camp Augusta staff member (in the realms of education, personal development and communication, and activity skills) can offer far-reaching benefits for many other parts of your life.

INTERESTED? APPLY NOW

Either email applications@campaugusta.org with a resume and how/when to best connect with you, or take 5 minutes to fill out our Staff Interest Form so a member of our Hiring Team can reach out to you.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• 3 years of relevant work or life experience (with youth, management, summer camp, recreation, etc.)
• Must be available for the full summer, May 12th-August 8th, 2026 (If within a few days, please inquire)
• Prior, meaningful work with children and a future career in youth development.
• Meaningful life experiences that helped instill a 'leadership of self' (work, independent travel, significant life events... anything that demonstrated your resourcefulness and ability to get things done on your own)
• Ability and willingness to work at a sustained, high-energy pace for extended time

Living and working at Camp Augusta also Requires:

• Flexibility (responding to quickly changing schedules and needs)
• Stamina (on the job 24/7, working in a physically demanding environment that requires the utmost care and attention)
• Communication skills to people of all ages and backgrounds (fellow staff, children, and parents, including those from other countries)
• Patience and compassion (working with children and staff)
• Conflict resolution (other staff as well as children)
• Ability to work in stressful situations (very tight schedule, high expectations, rapidly changing environment)
• Ability to react quickly and stay calm in high-stress environments (accidents/injuries, high-stress cabin group)
• Ability to work with and relate to people of various ages (child-adult)
• Program and curriculum creation/development/evolution/assessment/improvement (new clinic creations, evening program creations, etc.)

and we prefer folks who...

• Value and actively cultivate emotional intelligence, in self and others
• Love community, and possess the flexibility, open-mindedness, honesty, responsibility, and heartfelt goodwill to live and work in a 65 person community
• Actively build community and camaraderie defined by love, mutual respect, dedication to growth, and playful interactions
• Love to create, problem solve, and have fun… people who cherish their childlike spark
• Are motivated and organized enough to make those ideas happen
• Are flexible enough to thrive in the unforeseen, and enjoy the novelty and variability of each new day at camp
• Possess and cherish a growth mindset (rather than a fixed mindset)

Feeling ready to apply?

1. If you meet the minimum requirements above, take 5 minutes to fill out our interest form. 

2. Someone from our hiring team will reach out to you within 24 hours.

3. Schedule an Intro Chat with us, and complete a full application!