Our goal is to provide positive, life-enhancing experiences for all participants in our programs and for members of our surrounding community, including those less fortunate. Camp Marist strives to offer a stimulating and fun-filled environment, which fosters personal growth in faith, mind, body, and friendship through challenging and educational activities.
Staff
Hiring the best staff is one of our priorities. We seek a good mix of our senior staff, veteran returning staff and new staff members. While it is very important to us to hire qualified staff in various areas, it is even more important to us to hire enthusiastic, positive and genuinely caring individuals. We review applications and references thoroughly and will conduct Skype interviews to aid us in the hiring process.
Summer employment contracts generally are for a 9 week period which includes our staff orientation. Staff orientation is required for all staff to familiarize them with all aspects of the job. In addition, pre-camp we will send a lot of material to help staff members understand our mission and our expectations for employment. We assume that each staff member will read all materials sent.
Camp Marist employs staff in one of four areas:
1) Prefect – lives in camper cabins with three other counselors.
2) Counselor – works primarily in an activity area as well as being assigned to a cabin and cabin life.
3) Nurse – our goal is to have three nurses on staff at all times. Our head nurse hires our nursing staff and all applications for this position will be contacted by her.
4)Support Staff – generally we hire support staff in the areas of maintenance, kitchen/dining room and at times laundry or office staff.
Prefects – the cabin prefect serves many roles in the life of a camper – parent, friend, role model and much more all rolled into one. They are the anchors for our campers giving them a sense of safety and comfort by creating a cabin spirit and making the cabin their home away from home.
