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Summer Camp Staff Positions
Blue Ridge Scout Reservation
For all positions, meals and lodging are provided at the camps for the season. All persons must register with the Boy Scouts of America. Persons will need to have the physical ability to live and work in a rustic camping environment and walk over rocky trails. National Camp School is a pre-camp, week-long training program for key BSA summer staff members. BSA pays for this training. We can help with travel expenses for those staff members who must travel from out of the state to work at our camps.
Below are descriptions of jobs available on the Reservation. Please read these descriptions thoroughly before applying.
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Adult
Senior Staff Positions
Camps Powhatan and Ottari |
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Camp Director - Minimum age 21, attends National Camp School. Hires the staff and oversees the operation of
the entire camp, particularly food service and all administration.
Program Director - Minimum age 21. Attends National Camp School. Oversees all program staff and coordinating of activities & schedules.
Brownsea Island Director - Minimum age 18. Has BSA background. Instructs younger Scouts in the basic
skills needed to attain First Class. Leads weekly overnight hikes.
Commissioner - Minimum age 18. BSA background helpful. Maintains daily contact with the troops, moitoring
campsite inspections and solving problems. May instruct some merit badges.
Cooks - Prepare 3 daily meals for hundreds of boys and adults in our cafeterias. Oversee cleanup.
Health Officer - Minimum age 18. Needs current EMT certification. Handles the minor injuries and illnesses,
and helps in the event of major injuries.
Trading Post Manager - Minimum age 18. Manages the inventories, retail sales and snack food services of our
trading posts.
Chaplain - Minimum age 21. Recognized as a qualified clergyman or seminarian by a church body. Leads nondenominational devotions and counsels those with problems.
Aquatics Director - Minimum age 21. Attends National Camp School. Oversees the staff and operation of our
waterfront facilities, which instruct: lifesaving, swimming, canoeing, sailing, rowing, and kayaking.
Assistant Aquatics Director - Minimum age 18.
Shooting Sports Director - Minimum age 21. Attends National Camp School. Instructs youth in safety and marksmanship with .22 cal. rifles, shotguns and muzzleloaders.
Archery Instructor - Minimum age 18. Teaches archery.
Nature-Ecology Director - Minimum age 18, attends National Camp School or has 2 years of college with a
major in a related field. Directs a staff who instruct a wide variety of badges from forestry to wilderness survival to
mammal study.
Scout Craft Director - Minimum age 18. Has BSA background. Leads overnight trips and instructs in basic
camping skills.
Youth Positions
Unpaid:
 Counselor-in-Training - Minimum age 14. Attends camp for 2 weeks and learns the skills necessary to instruct merit badges and serve as a future staff member. Earns some merit badges. Fee is $60 per week.
Staff Intern - Minimum age 15. Attends staff week and two or more other weeks during the summer. Works in
several departments and assists in merit badge instruction. No fee; receives room and board.
Salaried:
Dining Hall Staff - Minimum age 15. Serves food, washes dishes and maintains clean kitchen and dining hall.
Dining Hall Steward - Minimum age 17. Oversees serving and cleanup of meals and dining hall.
Trading Post Staff - Minimum age 16. Assists with sales and clean-up.
Quartermaster - Minimum age 16. Issues camp equipment and assists in camp maintenance.
Bicycle Mechanic - Minimum age 16. Repairs mountain bikes and leads rides.
Merit Badge Instructor - Minimum age 16. Teaches Scouts the requirements for the merit badges. Would
serve in either Aquatics, Nature, Handicraft, Scout Craft, Shooting Sports or First Year Camper departments.
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New River
Adventure Program |
New River staff provide programs in climbing, rappelling, mountain biking, caving, whitewater canoeing, COPE (the ropes course) and whitewater rafting in West Virginia. Staff are cross trained as much as possible to work several program areas and gain a wide range of experience. Raft guide and river rescue qualifying and training requires two weeks. There is a one-week in-camp training for all staff. It covers COPE, climbing, biking, etc. All staff 18 and older are welcome to take the raft guide training, even if they have a management assignment.
Program Director: Minimum age 21. Recruits, trains and directs a staff that offers these program features
to older Scouts and adults.
Assistant Director: Minimum age 21. Assists in direction of program. Responsible for logistics, transportation
and coordination with dining hall staff.
COPE (Ropes Course) Director: Minimum age 21. Attends training at National Camp School (NCS). Trains
and directs staff to facilitate ropes course activities. Project Adventure experience is helpful.
Assistant COPE Director: Minimum age 21. Attends NCS. Assists Director in training and directing staff on
ropes course. Project Adventure experience is helpful.
Climbing Facility Director: Minimum age 21. (May attend NCS). Trains and directs staff in operation of a
climbing and rappelling facility. Experienced climbers preferred.
Canoeing Program Director: Whitewater canoeing/kayaking experience preferred. Responsible for
directing a program that takes beginner canoeists on class 2+/3 river trip.
Caving Director: Minimum age 21. Experienced cavers only. Supervises caving program in accordance with
NSS and BSA standards.
Caving Trip Leader: Minimum age 21. Experienced cavers only.
Whitewater Rafting Director: Minimum age 21. Experienced raft guides preferred. Responsible for
directing raft guides and rafting program in West Virginia: setup, take down, trips, meals and raft guide
outpost.
COPE (Ropes Course) Instructor: Minimum age 18. We train. Previous ropes course experience is helpful.
COPE (Ropes Course) Staff: Minimum age 16. We train. Previous ropes course experience is helpful.
Climbing & Rappelling Instructor: Minimum age 18. Climbing experience preferred. We train.
Climbing & Rappelling Staff: Minimum age 16. Climbing experience helpful. We train.
Raft Guide: Minimum age 18. We offer an intensive two-week training course in the New River Gorge in
West Virginia for new raft guide candidates. EMT's and experienced guides are especially welcome.
Canoe Trip Safety Boater: Whitewater experience preferred.
Mountain Bike Trip Leader: Minimum age 16. Must be in excellent physical condition. Leads trips and
assists with repairs and first aid.
Bus Driver: Minimum age 21. Requires CDL to drive school buses on rural roads in mountainous terrain in
Virginia and West Virginia.
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Fish Camp |
 Director: Minimum age 21. Spends the week with a small group of youth instructng fly tying, casting and
fishing for trout, small mouth bass, sunfish and stripers.
Assistant: Minimum age 21. Assists with all instruction and duties. Helps to drive the van.
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Voyageur |
Director: Minimum age 21. Current First Aid certification required. Attends a National Camp School. BSA
Lifeguard certified. Leads a weeklong canoe trip.
Assistant: Minimum age 21. Assists with all instruction and duties.
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High Knoll Director: Minimum age 21. Recruits, trains and directs the staff. Coordinates the scheduling of
the crews and programs.
Director: Minimum age 21. Attends National Camp School for shooting sports. Instructs Scouts in 18th
century life skills: black powder riflery, primitive cooking, knife and tomahawk throwing, edible plants.
