SR DIRECTOR OF CAMPS

Roles and Responsibilities:  The Senior Director of Camps (SDOC) oversees the culture and operations of our summer camp programs. The applicant must love Christ and His gospel, having fun, building healthy relationships, and growing ministries. T Bar M’s Camp Programs include Base Camp, New Braunfels Day Camp, Camp Travis, Discover Camp, Family Camp, Midland Day Camp, Ultimate Swim Camp, Ultimate Dance Camp, and Parent Child Retreats. The SDOC also gives final oversight to the summer staff recruiting process, which accounts for roughly 500 positions (Work Crew, Coaches, and Leadership).

Key Duties

Gives Leadership to the full time Camp directors, summer staff and campers.

• Full time staff responsibilities
  • Lead, invest in, evaluate all camp directors (team of 16 directors). Most direct interaction is with the Lead Director of each program. This currently consists of 4 directors.
  • Lead weekly Director Bible study
  • Lead weekly Director Development meeting
• Summer staff responsibilities
  • Support the processes to hire, train, lead, evaluate, and disciple all summer staff
  • Assist Directors to problem solve and interface with summer staff
  • Assist with Training Camps, Opening Days and Closing Days
• Camper responsibilities
  • Problem solve/interface with directors/campers/parents as needs arise
• Give oversight, assess, and report weekly parent surveys and assess weekly camper evaluations
• Actively participate on Recruiting Trail for summer staff

Provide Leadership/Oversight/Evaluation to Summer Camp Programs

• Maintain active presence at all summer locations during summer months.
• Keep TDSHS youth camp license up to date.
• Maintain relationship with Believe It Foundation for Camp Hope campers.
• Provide accountability to directors for strategy and improvement initiatives.
• Prepare and oversee yearly budget for Camp Admin and give oversight and approval for all other Camp program budgets which are prepared by Lead Directors.
• Participate in capital improvements with collaboration from Director of Facilities & Lead Directors.
• Develop the summer theme and drive theme song development with David Dunn and visual delivery with Marketing Team.
• Give final edits and approval to summer Bible study and staff play books.
• Lead 2^nd half-staff training for staff who could not attend Staff Training Camp.
• Give leadership to F24 (First 24 Hours of Staff Training Camp).
• Work with Marketing to review & respond to survey results

Participate on the Senior Leadership Team (SLT)

• Represent Camps’ Team interests and perspective to the SLT.
• Spend time thinking about strategic goals for Camps Team and allow SLT to speak into the direction of the Camp programs.
• Assist in supporting all staff events. Currently includes Staff Espresso, Staff Coffee, Staff Lunch, Staff Retreats, Staff Christmas Party and other random acts of fun.

Success Markers

Success markers are what it would look like when key duties are completed in alignment with our core values and culture. Some are aspirational allowing us to raise our gaze to what's ahead.

• Christ-centered Gospel-forward team culture
  • Building ministers of the faith who can shepherd their programs well
  • The team is eager to not waste fun with you. They know your family well and is known by them
  • The team holds each other accountable to be growing in Christ
• Unity with the SLT as your core team
  • Collaborative relationship with other departments, Desire to engage with their priorities as much as your own teams.
  • Invested in T Bar M’s core values. Moving the organization down the road to flourishing.
  • Willingness to raise issues and engage in healthy conflict. Disagree, commit, and maintain short accounts with other staff.
  • Your strengths help fill/balance out personalities (Kolbe/Strengths Finder)
• Flourishing camps team
  • Annual survey scores show health. The team feels heard.
  • Your team characterizes you as a coach and active player
  • There is high retention because the directors feel developed professionally and spiritually
  • Hitting strategic targets for each program that make them sustainable
  • Work feels balanced, and expectations are clear, during the recruiting season.
  • Recruiting season is fulfilling. Everyone knows the steps were taking to move that direction.
• Operating in the positive
  • Growing programs
  • Full summer staff
  • Full camp programs

Qualifications

• Spiritual Growth and Alignment
  • Consistent evidence of a growing relationship with Christ
  • Awareness of and desire to deploy spiritual gift(s) in this ministry
  • Active member of local church
  • Strong sense of calling
  • Whole-hearted support of organizational Vision, Core Values, and Mission
• Discipler/Developer of Others
  • Experience and desire to invest in college-aged staff
  • A heart to work with students
  • Ability to tactfully confront conflict in a timely and biblical manner
  • Invest time into coaching others through teachable moments and situations 
• Good “fit” for T Bar M Camps
  • Camp ministry is a lifestyle in which we subject ourselves to accountability with one another as we live in community together. 
  • Ability to keep up with the pace of “camp life”
  • Decisions and actions consistently reflect the core values of our ministry
  • Ability to think ministry-wide by having a “T Bar M” mentality
  • Has a “Don’t Waste Fun” attitude. Fun and energy flow from leadership style.
• Self-Awareness, Character, and Initiative
  • Presents himself/herself in a professional manner and sees leadership as a role in which to serve rather than a position to be served 
  • Willingly admits mistakes and learns from them
  • Restless with the status-quo, demonstrates a persistent energy to do things better
  • Supportive of organizational leadership and yet be able to make independent decisions when necessary
  • Balances self-confidence and humility
• Effective Communicator
  • Comfortable in face-to-face encounters with adults and professionals and able to deliver the “T Bar M difference”
  • Ability to manage relationships via a variety of mediums (i.e. phone, email, face-to-face interaction)
  • Confident, dynamic, clear, and reactionary to questioning
• Education/Experiences
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Five years of work experience beyond college preferred

Center for Christian Growth, Inc.

Center for Christian Growth, Inc. (CCG) is a 501(c)3 public charity, headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas.  CCG operates youth and family camps and retreats in New Braunfels and at Lake Travis near Austin under the trade name T Bar M Camps and Retreats. T Bar M is a Christ-centered, year-round camp, and retreats ministry. All employees are required to be in alignment with CCG’s Core Identity (Mission, Vision, Values) and the Belief Statement. CCG is governed by its Board of Trustees, to whom the President reports.