The Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s BeWell Initiative in partnership with Hillel at FIU and University of Miami Hillel is currently seeking a Hillel Therapist & Wellness Professional. This new full-time position will provide counseling services to undergraduate and graduate students at both Hillels with the weekly hours split evenly between the two Hillels. This position will deliver client-centered social services, education, training and support for staff and students in a collaborative community setting. They will provide information and referrals to additional mental health support systems and link students to integrated services and resources that address their individual needs. This position will have the ability to also facilitate clinically informed and psycho-educational groups at both campuses. The Hillel Therapist and Wellness Professional will report to the BeWell Miami Director and the FIU and UM Hillel Directors and will work in collaboration with both Hillel teams. Evening availability will be required during parts of the school year (i.e. to be involved with occasional evening programming, such as wellness events or psycho-educational group programming). During the summer months when school is not in session, this position will be embedded in the Miami-Dade JCC summer camps to provide clinical support and crisis management support to staff as well as campers on an as-needed basis.

Our ideal candidate has strong clinical expertise, experience and skills, as well as interpersonal skills and ability to engage with young adults. Knowledge of Judaism and Jewish culture required.

About The Greater Miami Jewish Federation and BeWell Miami

The mission of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation (GMJF) is to mobilize human and financial resources, to care for those in need, strengthen Jewish life, and advance the unity, values, and shared purpose of the Jewish people in Miami, in Israel, and around the world. BeWell Miami is an initiative of GMJF which provides support and tools to respond to the growing mental health concerns of young people, ages 12-26. BeWell provides resources and education for adolescents, parents, caregivers, and Jewish professionals to promote well-being and destigmatize mental health in the Jewish community.

About Hillel at FIU and University of Miami Hillel

Founded in 2015, Hillel at FIU serves a Jewish community of 3,500 students on the fourth largest campus in the nation. With a strong focus on leadership, Jewish education and strengthening connection to the Miami Jewish community, Hillel at FIU fights antisemitism, strengthens Jewish values and produces future leaders of our Miami community.

At the University of Miami (UM), Hillel’s mission is to enrich the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. We envision a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel. With over 2,000 Jewish students at the University of Miami, Hillel works to engage each of them in meaningful Jewish experiences both on campus and within the greater Miami community.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Counseling & Crisis Management

Perform primarily telehealth clinical counseling services to students.
Clinical responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment implementation as appropriate.
Interventions may include individual and group therapy, case management, and crisis intervention. Maintain caseload and meet with clients routinely to review progress and accountability.
Provide referrals and case management services to clients as needed.
Address acute student crises and triage active concerns alongside campus Hillel staff.
All services will be provided at both Hillel at FIU and UM Hillel
During the summer months when school is not in session, this position will be embedded in the Miami-Dade JCC camps to provide clinical support and crisis management support to staff as well as campers on an as-needed basis.
Collaboration with Hillel at FIU and UM Hillel Staff

Partner, support and consult with campus Hillel staff at both campuses in addressing a wide range of student needs.
Attend mandatory staff meetings, training, clinical supervision and staff gatherings (at both Hillels and GMJF).
Documentation and Record Keeping

Maintain professional and timely documentation of services in electronic medical record including, but not limited to intake and case notes, treatment plans, and other forms or documents which may be needed or required from time-to-time.
Track and evaluate progress data to measure growth and effectiveness for donors and stakeholders.
Outreach and Education

Build relationships with key referral supports on campus including the university student crisis response teams and/or in the community as well as the university counseling centers.
Maintain knowledge of current mental health resources in the Greater Miami Area.
With consultative (and potentially facilitation) assistance from BeWell Miami Director, develop and facilitate psycho-educational/wellness programs in collaboration with Hillel teams on both campuses. Topics may include:
Stress management
Relationships
Planning for life after college
Depression and anxiety
Freshman adjustment
Grief and loss
Support students and staff on wellness initiatives, such as wellness week or wellness programming and more.
Collaborate with staff to integrate wellness practices into current Hillel experiences and/or coach student leaders to do so.
Provide education and training to staff and/or student leaders on mental health and wellness topics.

What You Will Receive

Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $55,000-$65,000, commensurate with experience.
A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D and Long-Term Disability (LTD) insurances, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
Great professional development, mentoring, and skill building opportunities.
Travel to national Hillel conferences 1-2 times a year.

Join our team as the Young Judaea Sprout Brooklyn Camper Care Manager and be at the forefront of ensuring the Mental, Emotional, Social wellbeing of our campers and staff. Collaborate closely with the Director and our summer leadership team, you’ll tackle any issue that arises during the camp season with positivity and skill.
As our MESSH Specialist, you’ll provide invaluable guidance to campers and staff, empowering them to make healthy, responsible, and respectful choices. Your role includes training staff on fostering positive social interactions, managing challenging camper behaviors and interpersonal disputes, identifying, and supporting campers with special needs, among other critical topics. You’ll embody Sprout Brooklyn’s core values, fostering strong relationships with both campers and staff while demonstrating exceptional communication skills.
Flexibility is key in this role, as you’ll navigate various situations with compassion and empathy. While you won’t have direct programmatic responsibilities, you’ll lead pre-camp training sessions and ongoing staff development, ensuring our team is equipped to handle any situation that arises.
Responsibilities:
• Lead in determining appropriate responses to camper and staff issues related to social, emotional, and mental health
• Support staff in managing challenging situations and addressing camper needs
• Pre Camp Conversations with special need camper families
• Participate in supervisor and staff training prior to camp
• Monitor and support the well-being of campers and staff, communicating with the Director as needed
• Document incidents, design intervention plans, and provide guidance after crises
• Work with individuals and groups, as required
• Communicate with parents as necessary
• Serve as a positive role model and uphold camp values
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Camp Director

Camp runs from the June 24 – August 16, with some pre-summer work (flexible hours). The camp day runs from 8:00am – 4:30pm, Monday – Friday. Salary Range: $7,000-$10,000, dependent on role and experience.

The Assistant Director: Camp Care at Camp Galil is responsible for supporting the mental, emotional, and social well-being of all campers and staff members. This staff member will serve as a critical component of our Camper Care Team and guide Galil in creating an environment that’s welcoming for all. The Assistant Director: Camp Care will assist staff members with managing the social dynamics and behavior of their campers, while assisting them in meeting camper needs. The Assistant Director: Camp Care will regularly speak with parents of campers to elicit collaboration in achieving success for their camper. Together with a team of talented individuals, the Assistant Director: Camp Care will help to ensure the attention to and support of each camper and staff member’s well-being while in our care, including our community members’ Mental, Emotional, and Social Health (MESH) needs.

This is a great opportunity to leverage previous professional experience in a role that offers seasonal flexibility and the opportunity for a mental health professional to work alongside year-round Professional Staff and a seasonal youth leadership team to employ strategic thinking, problem-solving, thoughtful, and intentional care and guidance, and the delicate and expert touch needed to help ensure the highest quality of care of our participants. With the primary goal of supporting campers, the Assistant Director: Camp Care will provide hands-on care to campers, with a focus on being a resource to staff members in their work with children at camp. The Assistant Director: Camp Care will also be a key point of contact for parents during the summer. Central to this position’s success is the educational and practical experience and insight regarding contemporary practices related to child development, social work, group dynamics, adolescent behavior, behavior management, and other related areas.

The Assistant Director: Camp Care’s role requires a great deal of flexibility and collaboration with Galil’s Professional Staff team and seasonal leadership team to be a direct source of support for campers, for staff in their work directly with campers aged 7 to 18 years, as well as for staff, as needed. The person will work on a year-round basis, living on-site and working fulltime in an immersive and intensive camp environment from June through August, and part-time (average 10 hours/week and 2-3 multi-day conferences) through the off-season (Sept-May). The Assistant Director: Camp Care, will be directly supervised by the Executive Director, and will work in partnership with the entire Camper Care team, which includes the youth leadership team and medical team.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Playing a leadership role in the planning and implementation of staff training and ongoing staff learning related to mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH);

• Serving as a resource to campers and staff throughout the summer in facing mental, emotional and social health challenges, and creating environments where campers and staff can thrive.

• Managing information about camper needs, and communicating those to staff, as well as documenting communication and plans as appropriate.

• Communicating and managing relationships with parents/caregivers in regards to camper needs.

• Provide counseling and interventions to campers and staff, as appropriate.

• Cultivate and maintain relationships with camp families that are rooted in excellent communication, trust, and partnership.

• Assist in recruiting campers and maintaining relationships with camp families throughout the year and over the summer.

• Serve as the lead in family/parent communication in relation to mental, social, and emotional health at camp.

• Oversee the intake process for new campers with identified needs, while continually screening camper information forms for potential unidentified areas for support (e.g. recent trauma, etc.)

• Assist in collecting camper forms, reviewing camper files pre-season, and documenting camper care/situations at camp.

• Be an active presence on-site at camp as a part of the community.

• Participate in the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Community of Practice as part of the Yedid Nefesh program, including monthly calls, 2-3 virtual gatherings and one in-person gatherings per year with other Jewish camp mental health professionals.

Camp Pembroke is hiring a relationship-oriented Community Care Director to work closely with our Camper Care & Wellness Team, comprised of four Head Counselors, our Nurse Practitioner, and three Wellness professionals, to support our happy campers and staff! This role is a seasonal summer role with part-time hours before summer session begins.
Specific Responsibilities of the Community Care Director/Camp Social Worker include, but are not limited to:
● Playing a leadership role in the planning and implementation of staff training and ongoing staff learning related to mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH);
● Creating and implementing programming for small groups of campers and staff focused on wellness and social-emotional learning.
● Serving as a resource, alongside the other members of the Camper Care & Wellness Team, to campers and staff throughout the summer in facing mental, emotional and social health challenges, and creating environments where campers can thrive.
● Managing information about camper needs, and communicating those to staff, as well as documenting communication and plans within Camp Pembroke’s systems.
● Communicating and managing relationships with parents/caregivers in regards to camper needs.
● Participate in Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Community of Practice as part of our camp’s place in the Yedid Nefesh program, including two or three virtual gatherings and one in-person gathering per year with other Jewish camp mental health professionals.
● Be an active presence on-site at camp as a part of the community.
● Additional responsibilities as required.

Put on your staff shirt, grab a s’more and come join us lakeside for the summer of a lifetime!

The JCC Ranch Camp is not just the Denver JCC’s overnight summer camp, it’s also one of the best places
to work during the summer. As a staff member, Ranch Camp will become your home away from home
as you work to create a community where people can thrive. You’re a hero to your campers; you have
the chance to do something you really care about and have a whole lot of fun doing it. Your experience
as a staff member is just as important to us as our campers’ experience. That being said: We’re here to
serve kids and make sure they are in the safest environment possible while having the time of their lives.
First and foremost, all our supervisory staff act as a team to support cabin staff.
Supervisory Responsibilities
• Take care of staff and campers by prioritizing the physical, social, emotional health, safety, and
well-being.
• Work as a team with the supervisory team to make sure every day runs the way it’s supposed to
by helping to run meals, participating in all camp programming, and providing coverage for
cabin staff as needed.
• Create a community that you want to be a part of and that you want campers to be a part of.
• Include everyone and make sure everyone is included.
• Jump into the camp life: ride horses, swim, camp, play games, sing songs, roast s’mores, be
ready to do everything the campers do!
• Act as a resource and support staff as they manage camp behaviors using positive behavior
management techniques, enforcing appropriate safety policies, emergency procedures, camp
rules, and more.
• Be flexible and adaptable because things change quickly at camp. You have to be able to roll
with it.
• And other duties and responsibilities as assigned: you might need to make your campers’
dreams of a beach themed ice-cream campfire song session come true or become your favorite
legendary Pokémon for an evening program.
Our supervisory team is more than just a support structure. We want you to do what matters to you
while you’re at camp.
Want to spend your summer outside, exploring the back country of Colorado and climbing mountains?
We have a job for you. Does spending the morning playing soccer and the afternoon creating art make
your heart happy? We have a job for you. Want to design a rocket that can make grilled cheese, but also
land on Mars? We probably have a job for you, let’s talk.
Staff Wellness Manager Responsibilities
• Understand the wants and needs of summer staff members to plan intentional, fun, and
meaningful staff bonding activities once a week.
• Understand the intricacies of staff mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health and plan
intentional, fun, and meaningful staff wellness activities once a week.
• Work with camp supervisory team to set up supervisory office hours and supervision feedback
weekly.
• Act as a mentor and role model to staff and assist in providing staff with appropriate MESSH
resources.
• Create innovative ways to show gratitude, positive feedback, and appreciation towards staff
members.
• Work with camp supervisory team to communicate with and understand their staff members
and mediate conversations between supervisors and staff.
• Build relationships with staff members in the same was staff build relationships with campers
allowing staff to feel that their growth is supported and seen and that they are valuable
members of the camp community.
• Plan staff training with supervisory team focused on building self-care routines and introducing
staff to MESSH resources and best practices.
Finally, all staff must be able to attend Staff Orientations and be available to live at camp for the
summer season.

Benefits Overview
This is a seasonal job and is therefore ineligible for benefits.
Please note: This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of every duty and
responsibility which will ever be required of an employee in this position; however, the employee will be
held responsible for all duties assigned.
The Jewish Community Center values diversity and inclusiveness and is an equal opportunity employer

Pay Range: $1,300 – $1,800 per pay period

Summer Season 2024 | 1 Training Week, 7 Program Weeks | approx. 30 hrs/wk
Training: 6/10-6/14 | 4:00 PM – 8:30 PM (30-minute dinners) Monday –
Thursday | 8:30AM-3:30PM Friday (30-minute lunch); hours vary, including
pre-summer planning and check-ins
Program Expected Hours: 8:45 AM – 3:15 PM Mondays – Fridays, subject to
change (30-minute lunches)
Hourly Rate Range: $30-$50/hour, plus camp tuition for up to 3 dependents

About the Program
Camp Wise is a fun and active Jewish summer day camp at Wise School for Kindergarten through 8th grade. Campers have jam-packed days filled with a variety of activities such as swimming, sports, arts,
cooking, music, dance, and more. 1st-8th graders have weekly field trips, and all campers enjoy special programs such as carnivals, weekly themes and dress-up days, special guests, Shabbat, and more to
ensure a fun summer at Camp Wise. Our specially trained staff create special bonds with campers while taking care of their emotional and physical safety both on-site and off-site. Our mission is to provide a
fun, safe, and loving community of campers and staff built on Jewish values, to meet new friends, bond with old ones, and look forward to returning every year.

Responsibilities
– Playing a leadership role in the planning and implementation of staff training and ongoing staff
learning related to mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH);
– Creating and implementing programming for small groups of campers focused on wellness and
social-emotional learning
– Serving as a resource to campers and staff throughout the summer in facing mental, emotional,
and social health challenges and creating environments where they can thrive
– Managing information about camper needs, communicating those to staff, and documenting
communication and plans within Camp Wise’s systems
– Communicating and managing relationships with parents/caregivers in regard to camper needs
– Preparing reports to funding agencies in relation to mental, emotional, and social health of
Camp Wise and its campers, including sharing high-level understandings of interactions and
interventions taking place throughout the summer
– Participate in Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Community of Practice as part of the Yedid Nefesh
program, including two or three virtual gatherings and one in-person gathering per year with
other Jewish camp mental health professionals
– Be an active presence on-site at camp or offsite on field-trips as part of the camp community
– This role is a seasonal summer full-time non-exempt position, with part-time hours before
summer session begins. During the summer session, the position includes evening hours. The
Community Care Coordinator reports to the Director of Camp Wise.
– Additional responsibilities as required

Benefits:
– Free camper tuition for up to 3 dependent children while serving in this role

The ideal candidate would be interested in being in this role for the next 2 years that our camp
participates in the Yedid Nefesh program. This relationship will be reviewed on a yearly basis during that
time, with the hope that the relationship can continue beyond the 3-year grant period.

Camp Gesher – a children’s Jewish overnight summer camp located in eastern Ontario, not far from Bon
Echo Park. (1 hour from Belleville) – is seeking a Camper Care Coordinator for the summer of 2024.
The Camp offers an outdoor residential camping experience to children between the ages of 7 – 16 years.
The Camp community consists of about 30 young adult staff and about 120 campers per session during
its summer season.

Our Mission:
Camp Gesher has been empowering youth for more than 60 years! Our program reflects the values and
spirit of youth leadership and empowerment; focusing on social justice, inclusion, equality, and building
an informed and empathetic community. At Gesher each camper is encouraged to take responsibility for
the well-being of the community and the world around them.
Our youth led community develops both tangible and intangible skills, for both our campers and our
staff. We foster self-confidence through trying new activities, gain resiliency by enduring setbacks in a
supportive environment, develop life-long friendships, grow independence, build social skills and
understanding of group dynamics, learn leadership skills, unplugging from technology, and connecting
with nature.
Dates of Employment:
● Pre-season occasional work in Spring 2024
● Full time in residence at Camp Gesher June 20, 2024-August 20, 2024

Specific Responsibilities of the Community Care Coordinator include, but are not limited to:
● Playing a leadership role and partnering with the youth leadership in the planning and
implementation of staff training and ongoing staff learning related to mental, emotional,
social, and spiritual health (MESSH); Lead in conjunction with the Youth Camper Care
Coordinator (Melavol), pre-camp training on camp policies including child abuse and
neglect.
○ Provide ongoing training and support to counselors and senior staff as they
implement interventions and program modifications.
○ Train and empower staff to confidently deal with childcare issues and conflicts.
○ Assist in developing policies and procedures; as well as educating and tracking
and intervening when necessary on issues related to hygiene, diet, sleep, and
exercise/physical activity as the foundation for good health at camp
● Work with the (Melavol) in creating and implementing programming for small groups of
campers focused on wellness and social-emotional learning.
○ Optional: Creating and implementing programs for staff and parents focused
on wellness and social-emotional learning.
● Serving as a resource to campers and staff throughout the summer in facing mental,
emotional and social health challenges, and creating environments where campers and
staff can thrive.
● Provide emotional support and guidance to individual campers and staff members with
active mental health concerns, and/or observe, assess and recommend interventions for
concerns related to individual camper behaviours and group dynamics.
● Managing information about camper needs, and communicating those to the
Mazkiriut (youth leadership team) as well as general staff, as well as
documenting communication and plans within Camp Gesher’s systems.
● Communicating and managing relationships with parents/caregivers in regards to
camper needs. Responding to parent concerns related to campers with mental health
and/or behavioral issues.
● Preparing reports to funding agencies in relationship to mental emotional and social
health of Camp Gesher and its campers and staff, including sharing high-level
understandings of interactions and interventions taking place throughout the summer.
Maintain required documentation for camper meetings, team meetings and parent
calls.
● Participate in Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Community of Practice as part of our camp’s
place in the Yedid Nefesh program, including two or three virtual gatherings and one
in-person gathering per year with other Jewish camp mental health professionals.
● Be an active presence on-site at camp as a part of the community.
● Additional responsibilities as required.