Digital Fabrication Specialist at Beam Camp

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Specialists are responsible for helping campers in their workshop navigate through the Independent Work program area over the course of the summer. This includes guiding campers through designing, planning, developing, and constructing their original projects. Specialists are responsible for creating supplemental resources to help campers move through their independent project, monitor campers progress, and efficiently order materials to keep their shop stocked with both fundamental materials as well as niche materials needed for individual camper projects. In addition to stewarding the Independent Work program area, Specialists also run 1-2 orientation workshops at the beginning of the camp session to introduce campers to their spaces, learn how to engage with the shop space and tools safely, and gain basic skills to be able to utilize the shop.
Specialists will have the support of at least one Instruction Oriented Counselor collaborating with them to host the workshop space. The relationship between Specialists and Staff Assistants is one of mutual support and learning, in which responsibilities for maintaining the space, tracking Independent Work, and supporting Campers is shared. Most Staff Assistants are either former campers or Beam Center NYC youth employees and have basic skills in the workshops.

When Specialists are not hosting campers in their workshop, they will hav additional responsibilities pertaining to the general upkeep and operation of camp including but not limited to: participating in the execution of the Beam Project alongside the Project Director and all other support staff on a need basis, camper village support and day off coverage, event production after dinner, luggage assistance at the beginning and end of camp sessions.

Folks who join us at camp work 6 days per week, their salary is paid out biweekly, and meals and lodging are provided for the length of the contract.

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