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As a cabin counselor, you are a role model, mentor, and leader to all Agawam campers. Your primary responsibility will be to work with a group of 4 to 8 boys to produce a cohesive cabin group. Cabin counseling is one of the most rewarding, but potentially challenging, parts of your job as you will be responsible for a cabin, possibly with a co-counselor, and you will be responsible for connecting with your campers, overseeing their health and safety, maintaining cabin neatness, solving camper problems, ensuring group unity, assigning and evaluating weekly personal character goals, supervising junior staff, and communicating with parents and the camp administration. Additionally, you are also expected to share in a weekly campus duty rotation.

All counselors work as activity counselors in addition to staffing a cabin. As an activity counselor, you are expected to be able to plan and to teach at least one camp activity. Although you may not be the activity head, there may be periods when you are expected to lead an activity. All staff members are responsible for record keeping, the maintenance of facilities and equipment, and participating in activity skits and presentations

Our staff members are typically college students, recent graduates, or teachers between the ages of 18 and 30. Each summer, we hire roughly 65 staff, 40 of whom are cabin and activity counselors. Usually more than 60% are former campers or staff members. About 10% are international staff.

We enroll about 130 boys ranging in age from 8 to 15. They come from more than 20 states and around a half dozen countries. We are very proud that over 75% of our campers return each summer, and that many are second and third generation campers!

Good staff candidates should express enthusiasm for working with children and have past experience leading young people or peers. We expect that most staff members will be certified in CPR and First Aid before coming to camp, and those applying for waterfront positions should be certified lifeguards. Training may be offered before and/or during our pre-camp period. Agawam may reimburse Red Cross class costs for our staff members who receive training prior to camp. Trip/nature staff should be trained in Wilderness First Aid.