Summer Farm Specialist (Residential Work-Trade)
Camp Urban Adamah
Description
The summer farm specialists are responsible for the educational content of summer camp. Specialists plan and facilitate 2-3 sessions per day for campers ages 3-14 that bring the magic of the farm to life. The Summer Specialists are responsible for knowing what is happening on the farm and for bringing the campers into that magic through art, storytelling, mindfulness, experimentation, and experiential activities.
ACTIVITY LEADER:
The Summer Specialists are responsible for planning and facilitating 2-3 farm education sessions per day. The blocks should be fun and engaging experiences for the campers and are the core of what makes Urban Adamah Camp such a rich experience for the campers. Specialists are encouraged to be creative and design farm education sessions from a place of their own interests, skills and what they want to learn and teach within this context.
FARM LEARNING:
The Summer Specialists are responsible for working closely with the farm team to work the land, including but not limited to planting, harvesting, weeding, animal chores, watering, and farm maintenance. The farm team will teach and train specialists so that they can meaningfully engage in farm work, as well as lead campers in farm work.
COMMUNAL LIVING:
As a core part of this program, specialists live together on site. Urban Adamah staff provide specialists with frameworks to help them develop a robust Jewish communal life in the time that they are living together on the farm.
JEWISH LEARNING:
There will be opportunities for Jewish learning over the course of the summer with our Ed team staff. We will learn about shabbat and its rituals, the basics of earth-based Judaism, and Jewish meditation practices.
This is a temporary, full-time seasonal position. Specialists will work 35 hours per week (including 20 hours in camp of lesson planning and facilitation, and 10 hours of farm work). Specialists will receive free room and board, programming and learning sessions, and a $2000 stipend. Specialists live on the farm itself in a modern building with a large, well-equipped kitchen and plenty of living space. Specialists may share a room with one other person. Specialists will be in charge of their own food purchasing and meal preparation.