Manager for Educational Adventures - Full-time

NOTE: We ONLY accept applications via our website.  Please apply at: http://www.guardup.com/manager-job-opening/

Summary of Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of five people or more, including overseeing and auditing of the distribution and delegation of tasks and responsibilities
• Collecting the stories of our customers and potential customers and matching them with our services while meeting their individual needs
• Proficient at categorizing and prioritizing issues and concerns while staying within our budget • Experienced with Project Management involving task, team, and deadline management
• Capable of problem solving to maintain the integrity of the daily milieu
• Facilitating classes, camp programs, and staff training
• Provide operational and logistical support to the Executive Director in a friendly yet demanding environment 
• Manage staff including training, correcting, reprimanding as well as hiring and firing 
• Maintain facilities 
• Help maintain accurate documentation and filing systems
• Assist in designing, delivering, and evaluating camp programs that meets the needs and interests of the camps target populations and ensure their delivery in a safe and quality manner
• Annually seek and analyze input from youth, families, and staff regarding the quality, safety, and enjoyment of the program and staff
• Work with Marketing Department in generating camper accessible content for websites, and social media
• Assist administrative team in maintaining database information regarding inventory, paperwork, and accurate records
• Work with staff to manage and maintain volunteer projects and communication
• Attend and pass annual CPR and First Aid certification
• Adhere to regularly scheduled hours both onsite and offsite  
• Availability to work some evenings and at least one weekend day each week
• Strong sense of ownership

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Significant previous experience working around kids and parents
• Experience managing a team of five people or more staff, including overseeing and auditing of the distribution and delegation of tasks and responsibilities
• Have a high tolerance for managing youth behavior
• Background as camp counselor, educator, and/or mental health counselor is a plus but not required
• Experience working with parents in addressing their concerns regarding their children
• Knowledge of business skills such as managing a budget, inventory control, understanding margins, and more
• Strong proficiency with windows based operating systems, spreadsheets, and experience using Client Relations Management Software
• A positive, healthy, upbeat personality oriented towards personal growth with a strong desire to be around those interested in the same
• As comfortable in a business suit and executive meetings as you are in a medieval castle or dragons lair
• Commitment to honesty and transparency in all communication, and the ability to take accountability and communicate mistakes
• Ability to manage schedules and keep an eye to preemptively prevent burnout in staff and self

Requirements:

• Previous management experience
• Clean background check, CORI and SORI checks
• Previous experience with kids and parents
• Some evening hours and one weekend day required

Benefits after minimum employment requirements are met:

• Matching 401k
• Paid time off
• Free camp enrollment for children of full time employees
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for Annual Pay Raise and bonuses

If you are remote from our location, we do require an onsite interview in the final rounds of the interview process. Candidates are responsible for their own transportation to and from Burlington, MA.

NOTE: We ONLY accept applications via our website.  Please apply at: http://www.guardup.com/manager-job-opening/