Camp Manager (Summer) - Poole, Dorset. Job in Poole Education & Training Jobs

Kings Camps; Poole; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks passionate Camp Managers for summer camps in Poole. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a team in delivering engaging sports and activity camps for children aged 5 to 17. You'll be responsible for ensuring a safe, fun, and educational environment while developing your leadership skills. With a commitment to safeguarding and child welfare, this position allows you to make a real difference in young people's lives. Join a dynamic team and enjoy a fulfilling summer experience with competitive benefits and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Funded residential opportunities

Employee Awards Programme

Discount on First Aid training

Referral reward voucher

Discount on camp places for family

Excellent locations

Market leading training

Career development opportunities

Free uniform

Qualifications

• 12 months' experience working with children and young people.
• 6+ months' experience in a management or leadership position.
• Knowledge of Child Protection and Safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a high-quality Kings Camps experience ensuring children are safe and active.
• Manage a team and oversee the venue's readiness and safety.
• Implement behavior management policies and uphold health and safety standards.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Child Protection

Health and Safety

Team Management

Education

Childcare related degree

Sports related degree

Teaching related degree

Job description

Camp Manager (Summer) - Poole, Dorset

Overview

If you're looking for an incredibly rewarding way to extend your leadership skills in an out of school setting, which will pay you to keep active and have fun, we're sure we can find an amazing role for you!

Kings Camps run sports and activity day camps for children throughout the school holidays that deliver our mission - getting children active, having fun and learning together.

We know market-leading programmes don't deliver themselves - it's our people who create amazing holiday experiences for children - and we're now hiring energetic and passionate Camp Managers to deliver our mission in 2025 and beyond.

Why work for Kings Camps?

• Funded residential opportunities
• Employee Awards Programme
• Up to 70% off Paediatric First Aid training
• £30 reward voucher for referring a friend
• Up to 50% off Kings Camps places for your own children, siblings or wider family (5-17yrs)
• Excellent locations - some of the best universities and school sports facilities in the UK!
• Market leading training and development
• Fully funded disclosure for Managerial and Voluntary positions
• Career development and the potential of regular employment with Kings (we always promote from within!)
• Opportunity to help make a difference in the lives of children from all backgrounds
• Free Kings Camps uniform

Job Description

Reporting to the Regional Manager and leading a like-minded team of coaching staff, you'll be responsible for the delivery of a high-quality, school-holiday, Kings Camps experience, ensuring children aged 5 to 17 are safe, active, having fun and learning together. Before the season begins, Camp Managers undertake administration and preparation responsibilities, communication with your team, planning timetables and ensuring your venue is ready. During season, Camp Managers are onsite from 8am to 5:30pm as the first-point of contact for staff, children, parents, venue and our central office team. Camp Managers are the designated safeguarding lead at a venue, dealing with concerns in a timely manner, completing paperwork and risk assessments, responding to feedback, recording incidents and managing OFSTED requirements.

Child safety is our number one priority so you'll ensure that the welfare of children is paramount at all times, supervising children during breaks, participating in swimming sessions, overseeing the safe use of equipment, promptly recording any incidents. Implementing behaviour management policies, and upholding health and safety standards and procedures

Person Specification (Ideal, but with some flexibility)

• We're ideally looking for candidates to be available for the full season (Mon-Fri, between 8am and 5.30pm) with the exception of summer, where we ask for a minimum of 3 consecutive weeks.??
• 12 months' experience working with children and young people
• 6+ months' experience in a management or leadership position
• Childcare, sports or teaching related degree (or related qualification)
• Knowledge and experience of Child Protection, Safeguarding and Health and Safety
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate
• Organised and able to follow policy and procedure
• Vibrant, resilient, team player
• Flexible and adaptable
• Paediatric First Aid (training opportunities are also available)

Our Safeguarding Promise

Kings Active Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Safer recruitment is central to the way we work and all staff and volunteers are expected to share our commitment to safeguarding, always creating an environment where young people feel safe and can thrive.

About us

Kings Camps are a market leading not-for-profit organisation offering sports and activity day camps at over 50 UK locations, getting children and young people active, having fun and learning together.

Founded in 1991, we were inspired by US-style summer camps. We decided that youngsters in the UK would love to experience school holiday camps too, and established a model which meant we could reach even more children through not-for-profit work in the UK and overseas.

Our coaches (we call them Red Tops) deliver high quality sports camps with an energy, passion and commitment to child development that we call the Kings Factor.