CAMP TRAVIS MENS DIRECTOR

Center For Christian Growth; New Braunfels (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Center for Christian Growth, Inc. d/b/a T Bar M Camps seeks a Camp Travis Men’s Director to lead college-aged summer staff, oversee overnight camp programs, and ensure alignment with our Christian mission.

The role rotates between New Braunfels and Lake Travis locations seasonally, supervising a team focused on safety, growth, and meaningful experiences for teens.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Two years of work experience beyond college preferred.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Commitment to camp ministry and core values.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to CT summer staff and campers alongside the CT Director and Women’s Director.
• Train, lead, and evaluate summer staff and oversee the leadership team.
• Oversee staff recruitment and interview/evaluation processes during trips.
• Plan CT programming and theme nights with CT Directors year-round.
• Maintain camper data and communications with families throughout the season.
• Collaborate with the programs team to create engaging activities and videos.

Skills

Leadership

Staff Training

Recruiting

Program Development

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: New Braunfels - New Braunfels, TX 78132, Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Travel Percentage: Up to 25%, Job Shift: Day, The Camp Travis Men’s Director will work with the Camp Travis Director to successfully execute T Bar M’s Camp Travis (CT) by leading a group of college-aged summer staff in the facilitation of our overnight teenage camp. This position is located in New Braunfels during the school year months and relocates to our Lake Travis property from May through August each year.

Key Duties

1. Provide Leadership to CT summer staff and campers alongside the CT Director and Women’s Director

   Summer staff shared Director responsibilities

   • Train, lead, and evaluate summer staff
   • Problem solve and interface with summer staff
   • Oversee the development and investment in Leadership Team
   • Year-round investment with summer staff
   • Actively participate in staff follow up communications (email, social media, campus visits, etc.)

   Overnight staff recruiting - participate in recruiting trips, interviews, evaluation/hiring

   Camper shared responsibilities

   • Problem solve/interface with campers daily during camp
   • Actively participate in parent follow up communications (e-mail, phone, etc.)

2. Summer individual responsibilities

   Primary focus is non-activity programming (Opening/Closing day, Main Thing, Theme Nights, Skits, Cabin clean up, etc.)

   • Execute all programming plans created during the year

   Direct, lead and oversee the programs team and guys leadership covenant

   • Provide leadership to programs videographer in making program specific videos

   Oversee weekly collection/organization of camper contact info/ratings

3. Year-round individual responsibilities

   Plan CT programming in conjunction with CT Directors

   • Dream, create, plan and execute all Theme Nights/Race/Main Thing/Skits
   • Dream, create, build and improve existing activity periods (Escape Room, etc.)
   • Develop, film, and edit videos/posters/etc. for programming

   Recruiting

   • Line up strategic extracurricular announcements (social media)
   • Promote to staff via text, social media

4. Maintain an active role in additional T Bar M Camps activities (including but not limited to):

   • Assist and/or support sponsored retreats (F/S, Leadership Retreats, etc.)
   • Participate in all T Bar M Camp Director planning and training sessions that you are able to.

Qualifications: Spiritual Growth and Alignment

• Consistent evidence of a growing relationship with Christ
• Awareness of and desire to deploy his spiritual gift(s) in this ministry
• Agreement with T Bar M Camps’ Doctrinal Statement
• 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 staff
• A heart to work with 8th through 12th grade 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
• A team player who maintains a collaborative attitude
• Ability to think ministry-wide by having a “T Bar M Camps” mentality

Self-Awareness, Character, and Initiative

• Presents himself in a professional manner and sees leadership as a role in which to serve rather than a position to be served
• Displays a teachable spirit
• Seeks out and values the input and ideas of others
• Willingly admits mistakes and learns from them
• Restless with the status-quo, demonstrates a persistent energy to do things better
• Possesses an unwavering commitment to quality
• Supportive of organizational leadership and able to make independent decisions when necessary
• Exhibits managerial courage through being willing to make the tough decisions.

Effective Communicator

• Skilled in verbal and written communication
• 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)

Organizational/Office Skills

• Ability to effectively juggle multiple demands and competing priorities
• Committed to continually reinvent this place
• Constantly pushes for innovation and better ways of doing things

Education/Experiences

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Two years of work experience beyond college preferred

Compensation

Compensation for the Camp Travis Men’s Director will be competitive with the market for similar roles and responsibilities. T Bar M Camps has a competitive benefits package.

Center for Christian Growth, Inc.

Center for Christian Growth, Inc. (CCG), d/b/a T Bar M and T Bar M Camps, is a 501(c)3 public charity, headquartered in New Braunfels, Texas. CCG operates a retreat/conference center, multiple camps—youth, teen and family camps—in New Braunfels, at Lake Travis near Austin and at select Texas cities (mobile day camps known as Discover252). During the school year, CCG is host to various organizations, associations, churches, companies as well as rental groups from schools, churches, and other organizations seeking Christian education in outdoor retreat settings. CCG also operates a discipleship training program for a select group of recent college graduates. CCG is governed by a Board of Trustees.