DIRECTOR – CAMP CULTURE, SUCCESS, AND ADMINISTRATION

Location: Nevada City, California (onsite housing provided)
Position Type: Full-time year-round - must be on-site April 1st - October 1st
Dates: Work available starting October 1st, 2025 (can be remote till April)
Benefits: Fresh organic food, private housing, 1 month paid vacation time, utilities, training, and more: https://campaugusta.org/staff/benefits-and-perks/
As an incoming Director, you’ll start on our hiring and onboarding team, taking an active role in hiring our 70 person community for the 2026 summer. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the camp’s culture and success through recruitment, applications, and onboarding, alongside other yearly administration tasks and building connections with the other directors and year-round leadership.
In the summer, you’ll work closely on a 3-person director team to ensure a positive culture of fun and challenge exist among staff and promotes a strong camper experience. Your work will directly impact the effectiveness of our summer and off-season programs, making this role critical to the long-term success of Camp Augusta. This is a leadership role for someone who enjoys a blend of administrative responsibility and hands-on program management, with a focus on people and culture leadership, process improvement, and community-building.

Key Responsibilities:

• Community Leadership: Oversee staff training, mentoring, and support throughout the camp season. Help foster a positive and collaborative environment where staff feel empowered to excel in their roles. Help them lean into challenge and growth, and hold high expectations for those that you supervise.
• Big-Picture Program Development: Use feedback from campers, staff, and past seasons to implement creative innovations and drive continuous improvement in our camp experience. Collaborate with camp leadership to evaluate and refine activities, processes, and the overall camper experience.
• Off-Season Role: From September to April, you’ll play a key role in hiring and training new staff, refining programs based on past experiences, and working on camper registration and planning for the upcoming season.
• Community Building: As a leader, you’ll be an integral part of creating a supportive, fun, and growth-oriented camp culture for both staff and campers, helping everyone thrive.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience: At least four seasons of experience at a residential youth-work setting (summer camp, boarding school, gap-year program, etc). You should have a proven track record of leading and developing in residential environments.
• Administrative Skills: A love for systems, processes, and logistics. You are detail-oriented, yet able to keep an eye on the big picture, constantly improving operations and camp activities. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Google Suite is required, with intentional use of AI.
• Passion: A strong commitment to creating meaningful experiences for youth and staff, with a positive energy that carries into those around you.
• Leadership: An ability to lead and inspire a diverse team, mentoring both staff and campers with empathy, energy, and professionalism - in the fun times and the challenges.
• Stamina: Emotional and physical stamina to engage with a vibrant camp community of 100+ campers and 60+ staff for the full yearly calendar. In the summer season (~May-August), these are 80ish hour weeks. Following the season, you’ll have about 1 month of break.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONTEXT OF THIS ROLE, SEE: HTTPS://CAMPAUGUSTA.ORG/DIRECTOR/

About Camp Augusta:
Located in the stunning Northern California wilderness, Camp Augusta is a nonprofit 90-acre residential camp known for its transformative and intentional camp experience. We prioritize creative programming, emotional growth, and counseling skills, offering campers a unique environment where they can thrive and build lifelong memories. Our staff enjoy an environment rooted in supportive leadership and continuous personal development.
Working at Camp Augusta offers an opportunity to be part of a close-knit, passionate team, while gaining invaluable experience in programming, staff management, and non-profit leadership.
We aim to include and celebrate many facets of human identity – gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, and other aspects that make us unique. We are working to craft an inclusive culture founded on ideals of curiosity, honesty, empathy, and acceptance – a place where people are seen and acknowledged for their shared humanity as well as their unique individuality.
Read our full Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Belonging (DEIB) Statement here: https://campaugusta.org/diversity/
Do you have any questions?
Send any questions you have to applications@campaugusta.org.
Feeling ready to apply?
1. Take 5 minutes to fill out our interest form: https://campaugusta.org/staff/staff-application/staff-interest-form/ or email us at applications@campaugusta.org.
2. Someone from our hiring team will reach out to you - usually within 48 hours.
3. Schedule an Intro Chat with us, and complete a full application!
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Childcare
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan

Work Location: In perso

Key Responsibilities:

• Community Leadership: Oversee staff training, mentoring, and support throughout the camp season. Help foster a positive and collaborative environment where staff feel empowered to excel in their roles. Help them lean into challenge and growth, and hold high expectations for those that you supervise.
• Big-Picture Program Development: Use feedback from campers, staff, and past seasons to implement creative innovations and drive continuous improvement in our camp experience. Collaborate with camp leadership to evaluate and refine activities, processes, and the overall camper experience.
• Off-Season Role: From September to April, you’ll play a key role in hiring and training new staff, refining programs based on past experiences, and working on camper registration and planning for the upcoming season.
• Community Building: As a leader, you’ll be an integral part of creating a supportive, fun, and growth-oriented camp culture for both staff and campers, helping everyone thrive