Summer Camp Job Listings

Spend Summer in the Berkshires! Internship credits available

Are you a creative leader passionate about inspiring the next generation? Camp Mah-Kee-Nac is seeking a Creative Arts & Media Program Head to develop and lead an engaging, hands-on program for our campers.

As the Creative Arts & Media Program Head, you’ll oversee a dynamic program that includes:

• Woodworking
• Model Rocketry
• Music
• STEM
• Lego & Robotics
• Media Arts (Broadcasting, Podcasting, Animation, Videography)

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and implement creative arts & media activities tailored to different age groups
• Train and mentor staff, ensuring safety protocols are followed
• Oversee scheduling, lesson planning, and program success
• Contribute to camp-wide events, evening programs, and special projects
• Maintain a fun, engaging, and inclusive environment for all campers

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in one or more of the program areas (teaching, coaching, or hands-on leadership)
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
• Passion for working with kids in a fast-paced, high-energy camp setting
• Ability to adapt, problem-solve, and bring fun every day!

Why Camp Mah-Kee-Nac?

• Competitive salary
• Travel stipend
• Housing, meals, & laundry included
• Internship credit available: We offer paid internships and support for school requirements or projects that align with your academic goals.

Additional Benefits:

Working at Mah-Kee-Nac is much more than just a summer job—it’s an experience of a lifetime. You’ll gain personal growth, the reward of working with children, and the joy of being part of a vibrant community. The close friendships and hands-on learning experiences will stay with you long after summer ends.

You’ll also enjoy access to our top-notch camp facilities, including a fully-equipped fitness center, multiple athletic fields and courts, and our stunning 372-acre lake. Plus, relax in our staff lounge with Wi-Fi and entertainment during your daily time off.

As the Arts and Media head at Mah-Kee-Nac, you’ll inspire our campers, build lifelong friendships, and create unforgettable memories. Plus, you’ll gain valuable leadership and management experience that stands out on a résumé.

Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge are seeking a creative and detail-oriented Fabric Arts Instructor to join our arts program for the summer. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with textiles and teaching campers hands-on skills such as sewing, weaving, embroidery, and other fabric-based crafts in a fun camp environment.

The Fabric Arts Instructor plays an important role in helping campers explore creativity, patience, and self-expression through textile arts.

Role Overview

As a Fabric Arts Instructor, you will lead engaging fabric-based art sessions for campers of varying ages and experience levels. You’ll introduce campers to different techniques and materials while maintaining a safe, organized, and encouraging studio space that supports creativity and learning.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead daily fabric arts instruction and hands-on projects
• Teach techniques such as sewing, weaving, embroidery, dyeing, or textile design
• Adapt projects for different ages and skill levels
• Encourage creativity, focus, and pride in finished work
• Maintain a safe, organized, and inspiring work area
• Assist with setup, cleanup, and care of tools and materials
• Serve as a positive role model within the camp community

Age Requirement

• Must be 18 years or older by the start of camp

Required Experience

• Experience with fabric arts, textiles, or fiber-based crafts
• Comfort teaching or guiding others through hands-on creative projects
• Experience working with children or teens preferred

Required Skills

• Knowledge of fabric arts techniques and materials
• Ability to explain processes clearly and patiently
• Strong organization and classroom management skills
• Creative, supportive teaching style
• Attention to safety when using tools and equipment

Certifications & Additional Requirements

• Studying for an Art degree or similar
• Can demonstrate a portfolio of work during the interview
• Ability to meet all camp background check and staff training requirements

Why Work at Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge?

• Teach creative, hands-on textile skills in a camp setting
• Help campers build confidence, patience, and artistic ability
• Live and work in a beautiful Pennsylvania camp environment
• Competitive seasonal stipend with housing, meals, and laundry included
• Join a supportive and creative arts staff team
• Gain valuable experience in arts education and youth development

Camp Med-o-lark is seeking Hot Glass/Flameworking/Lampworking instructors for our one-of-a-kind arts camp for summer 2025. 

Responsibilities include teaching up to 5 one-hour classes per day of approximately 5 campers. Campers use torches to melt colored glass rods. Once melted, campers shape and form the liquefied glass into small sculptures, utensils, and decorative marbles. We encourage you to bring your own ideas!

Med-o-lark is a coed residential creative arts camp for ages 8-16 and specializes in visual and fine arts, performing arts, circus, music, culinary, digital media, waterfront, and more! Med-o-lark offers staff benefits including a competitive summer salary, free room and board, laundry, and ample time off. Staff have some evening responsibilities and may live in a cabin with campers. This is a summer job that can be a ton of fun, gives you the opportunity to meet others from all over the world (both counselor and camper), and allows you to teach what you love to do!

No matter what field you ultimately go into, a Med-o-lark summer will always be an asset on your resume. We’re always glad to provide letters of recommendation or reference describing the skills you’ve developed with us. As a Med-o-lark staff member, you will have a positive impact on campers’ summers. They look up to you, learn from your example, and leave camp at the end of summer with new skills and accomplishments because of your influence. It’s an enriching experience helping campers create, grow, achieve, and excel. Apply today!

Our Waterfront program is a core element of the Birchmont experience, with our campers taking part in activities both on and in our beautiful, private lake twice a day. Our waterfront team is led by two Directors with over 80 years of combined experience in leadership at Birchmont – and under their guidance our team of 18 lifeguards deliver a varied and engaging program of instructional swim and watersports, including waterskiing, wakeboarding, sailing, tubing, kayaking, canoeing and stand-up paddleboarding. All of our lifeguards will be supported through their New Hampshire Boat License test, and will have opportunities to lead and instruct across our activity areas. Experience and confidence with open-water swimming, lifeguarding and at least one of our extended activity areas is preferred. When not at the waterfront, our lifeguards also serve as General Counselors with their assigned group.

Camp Med-o-lark is seeking Graphic Arts instructors for our one-of-a-kind arts camp for summer 2025. 

The hub of our graphic arts program takes place in a beautiful, spacious 200-year-old barn is centrally located among Med-o-lark’s many art studios. Here, staff teach campers techniques and styles in painting, drawing, sketching, cartooning, anime, graffiti, and other graphic arts. Campers choose from a wide variety of media with which to create, including oil, pastel, watercolor, pen and ink, charcoal, and conté. We encourage you to bring your own ideas! An open studio elective is offered for campers who wish to use their imagination and work on their choice of projects. Responsibilities include teaching up to 5 one-hour classes per day of approximately 5-10 campers.

Med-o-lark is a coed residential creative arts camp for ages 8-16 and specializes in visual and fine arts, performing arts, circus, music, culinary, digital media, waterfront, and more! Med-o-lark offers staff benefits including a competitive summer salary, free room and board, laundry, and ample time off. Staff have some evening responsibilities and may live in a cabin with campers. This is a summer job that can be a ton of fun, gives you the opportunity to meet others from all over the world (both counselor and camper), and allows you to teach what you love to do!

No matter what field you ultimately go into, a Med-o-lark summer will always be an asset on your resume. We’re always glad to provide letters of recommendation or reference describing the skills you’ve developed with us. As a Med-o-lark staff member, you will have a positive impact on campers’ summers. They look up to you, learn from your example, and leave camp at the end of summer with new skills and accomplishments because of your influence. It’s an enriching experience helping campers create, grow, achieve, and excel. Apply today!

Do you have a passion for sailing and working with kids? Are you interested in spending your
summer in beautiful Vermont, working with our campers and sharing that passion? Camp
Lochearn for Girls is a residential summer camp located in Post Mills, Vermont (20 minutes from
Dartmouth College) and we are currently hiring activity instructors & cabin counselors for the
summer of 2026.

Camp Lochearn is looking for an experienced Sailing Instructor to join us in assisting the
planning and delivery of our sailing program in ways that are safe, fun, and appropriate to the
campers’ ages and abilities. In this position, you will be living in a cabin of girls providing
support and guidance, and teaching one or more activities in which you have an interest. Help us
foster and grow passions for athletics and personal fitness in our amazing campers and help build
a respect for the sports through imparting your knowledge on eager campers.

Competitive salary based on experience and background.
*Candidates should be 18 years or older and available to work at Camp between 6/14 and
8/18.

Camp Med-o-lark is seeking Film Photographers to work at our one-of-a-kind arts camp for summer 2025. 

Featuring a darkroom complete with manual film cameras and six enlargers, Med-o-lark’s film photography program offers instruction in traditional black-and-white photography and film developing. In the dark room, campers are taught all aspects of film development, including composition, lighting, and processing. Responsibilities include teaching up to 5 one-hour classes per day of approximately 5-10 campers. Our well-equipped photo lab and darkroom provides campers unlimited creativity. Below is an outline of our Digital Photography, but we encourage you to bring your own ideas!

Med-o-lark is a coed residential creative arts camp for ages 8-16 and specializes in visual and fine arts, performing arts, circus, music, culinary, digital media, waterfront, and more! Med-o-lark offers staff benefits including a competitive summer salary, free room and board, laundry, and ample time off. Staff have some evening responsibilities and may live in a cabin with campers. This is a summer job that can be a ton of fun, gives you the opportunity to meet others from all over the world (both counselor and camper), and allows you to teach what you love to do!

No matter what field you ultimately go into, a Med-o-lark summer will always be an asset on your resume. We’re always glad to provide letters of recommendation or reference describing the skills you’ve developed with us. As a Med-o-lark staff member, you will have a positive impact on campers’ summers. They look up to you, learn from your example, and leave camp at the end of summer with new skills and accomplishments because of your influence. It’s an enriching experience helping campers create, grow, achieve, and excel. Apply today!

Camp Pemigewassett (Pemi), a summer camp for boys seeks qualified individuals to join our health care team for the 2026 summer. Candidates should be RNs, LPNs, NPs or PAs.

Founded in 1908, Pemi is the oldest residential boys camp in the country under the same continuous family ownership and management. Pemi campers can attend a full 7-week session, or choose from a shorter 3-week or 4-week session. Pemi offers a wide-ranging curriculum, including all athletics, water sports, trips, nature, music, arts, and drama. Camp occupies a beautiful 600-acre site on the shores of Lower Baker Pond in the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire, about 25 miles northeast of Hanover, New Hampshire.

The camp season runs eight weeks, from June 19 through August 16. An abbreviated term of employment is available, if schedules dictate a shorter commitment. We are seeking dynamic health care professionals with great energy, nursing skills, communication skills and warmth who will work as part of our well-staffed health care team.

Responsibilities include:

• providing basic health support for our 160 campers and 70 staff members
• pre-camp screening of staff and campers
• general first aid & management of numerous first aid kits
• responding to emergency and sick care
• oversight of daily medications
• scheduling doctor/dentist appointments
• communication with parents
• cooperative work with our other health care team members

The salary for the summer starts at $1,250 per week and we provide room, board and worker’s compensation insurance. All of our non-cabin staff live in residence at Pemi (with individual rooms and wifi), eat meals in the Mess Hall, attend staff meetings, and share in the joy of living in a vibrant community. If you have a family, we invite them to be part of the camp community as well, and if you have camp-aged sons, a huge benefit is our heavily discounted tuition for staff children.

Benefits
• TOP salary, room, board, transportation stipend (possible to have your own kids participate in camp)
• Warm, nice, professional medical faculty

Camp Equinunk, the boys campus of Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge, is seeking an experienced and motivated Fitness Director to lead our fitness and conditioning program for the summer. This leadership role is ideal for someone who is passionate about physical fitness, youth development, and creating engaging, age-appropriate training programs for boys in a camp setting.

The Fitness Director plays a key role in promoting healthy habits, physical confidence, and positive attitudes toward fitness while serving as a strong role model within the camp community.

Role Overview

As the Fitness Director, you will design and oversee daily fitness programming, lead conditioning sessions, and support campers in building strength, endurance, coordination, and confidence. You will work closely with athletic leadership and counselors to integrate fitness into the broader camp experience in a fun, safe, and motivating way.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and lead daily fitness and conditioning sessions for campers
• Design age-appropriate workouts focused on strength, endurance, flexibility, and overall wellness
• Teach proper exercise technique and promote injury prevention
• Encourage positive attitudes toward fitness and healthy lifestyles
• Supervise fitness facilities and ensure safe use of equipment
• Assist with equipment setup, maintenance, and organization
• Collaborate with athletic staff to support sports training and conditioning needs
• Serve as a positive role model and mentor for campers

Age Requirement

• Must be 21 years or older by the start of camp

Required Experience

• Strong background in fitness training, conditioning, or physical education
• Experience working with children or teens in a fitness or athletic setting
• Prior leadership or program management experience preferred

Required Skills

• Knowledge of strength training, conditioning, and fitness principles
• Ability to design safe, engaging workouts for youth
• Clear communication and motivational leadership skills
• Organized and responsible approach to program management
• Positive, encouraging coaching style

Certifications & Additional Requirements

• Personal Training certification
• Group workout class certification
• Ability to meet all camp background check and staff training requirements

Why Work at Camps Equinunk & Blue Ridge?

• Lead a comprehensive fitness program for boys
• Make a meaningful impact on camper health and confidence
• Live and work in a beautiful Pennsylvania camp setting
• Competitive seasonal stipend with housing, meals, and laundry included
• Join a professional and collaborative athletic leadership team
• Gain valuable experience in fitness program leadership and youth development