Falling Creek Camp

Current Job dates:

Currently recruiting for the season that runs from May 30th, 2025 to August 15th, 2025.

Camp Counselor

$4,000.00 - $7,000.00 / season

Zirconia

As a camp counselor at Falling Creek Camp in Western North Carolina, you'll be a role model, a big brother/sister, teacher, coach, mentor, listener, memory maker, problem solver, and superhero. Your job is to help boys have a great experience at camp, whether you're joining them at meals, teaching in activities, leading an outdoor trip, encouraging a homesick camper, or helping them get ready for bed after a day of adventure. The day may be long, but you can't beat the type of day you'll have!

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BENEFITS

We offer a competitive and progressive pay schedule that is determined based on your experience, age, education, certifications, and other factors. Staff working the full summer (Orientation plus 4 sessions) will have a base pay of $4000, not including additional pay, experience, outdoor gear pro deals, and bonuses. With housing and nutritious meals provided, you will have the opportunity to save most of your pay.

Visit our “What You Get” page to see the full pay scale, read more about the value of an internship at camp, learn how to translate your camp experience to your resume, and find more resources.

In addition to housing, food, and pay, each day at camp brings adventure, physical recreation, and endless opportunities for personal, professional, and spiritual growth. You are welcome to use the camp facilities and participate in activities during your free time, so long as it does not take away from a class or camper.

Being a Falling Creek alumni also connects you to a network of former staff and parents who are business owners and employers. We are frequently asked to refer our most talented staff members, which can help jumpstart your future career goals.

 

Housing

Male camp counselors live in a cabin with one other counselor and about eight campers. In addition to their activity instruction, male counselors will have an assortment of responsibilities related to the management of their cabin. Female camp counselors also serve as activity staff, but don’t live in cabins with the campers, and are responsible instead for organizational tasks during the times that male staff are busy with their cabins. Outdoor Adventure staff live in cabins with campers when not on their overnight trips. Trip Leaders are responsible for the planning and logistics of outdoor adventure trips, and do not live in a cabin with campers.

 

What’s a Typical Day Like?

Each weekday at camp has a schedule with 6 structured activity periods and 2 free choice periods. Each day at camp begins with waking up as a cabin and gathering as a community at Morning Watch. Next we enjoy a hearty breakfast and an exciting Morning Assembly on the porch. Then it’s off to the first three activity periods of the day (your morning block), followed by a period of Free Choice before lunch. On a typical day, each counselor will be assigned a specific area to supervise during one Free Choice period, and have the other Free Choice period to themselves as their “Self-Care Time”. Rest Hour happens after lunch, before the three activity periods in the afternoon (your afternoon block). Then there is the second Free Choice period, dinner, and a fun Evening Program! A typical day ends with Milk and Cookies, followed by Evening Embers, a discussion time with your cabin mates to talk about the day’s adventures. Everyone is tired and happy by the time it’s Lights Out. On weekends, we take a break from our regular activity instruction, sleep in an extra hour, and play games as a whole camp community.

If you teach an Outdoor Adventure Activity, you'll also be leaving camp property to take boys on half day lessons to 5-day long trips. You’ll make announcements after breakfast about upcoming trips or prep lessons each day, and campers can choose to leave their daily activity schedules behind and sign up to join you.

Male camp counselors live in a cabin with one other counselor and eight campers. In addition to their activity instruction, male counselors will have an assortment of responsibilities related to the management of their cabin. Female camp counselors also serve as activity staff, but don’t live in cabins with the campers, and are responsible instead for organizational tasks during the times that male staff are busy with their cabins.

 

Skills Needed

Our mission states that we exist to shepherd the journey of personal growth through love and adventure. Staff must be dedicated to live by the Falling Creek Code.

Counselors must be at least 19 years of age, or completed one year of college or comparable life experience away from home.

Patient. Flexible. Team Player. Genuinely Enthusiastic. Friendly. Eager to Grow. Open to Offer and Receive Feedback. Able to Think on Your Feet. Good Decision Maker. Hard Working. Get-It-Done Attitude.

See more on our staff FAQs page.

We hire a co-ed staff for our summer and listed pay is the base rate. We provide additional bonuses for education, certifications, and completion of the training and the entirety of the contract.

At Falling Creek, we recruit as wide a variety of personalities as possible. With as many campers as we have, our boys resonate uniquely with counselors, whatever identity they bring to the mountain. That being said, there are certain qualities that are more conducive to success over the course of the entire season. Chief amongst these are perhaps flexibility and work ethic. It is hard to predict the exact course of a day, but our staff should be engaged and creative enough to roll with whatever challenge might come their way. We also like people who are team players. Unselfishness is what we call “the spirit of Falling Creek”, and one must be able to prioritize the needs of our community over themselves.

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