Audio-Visual Coordinator

Position DescriptionPosition SummaryScott Mission Camp exclusively serves children from low-income families in the GTA, providing highly subsidized camp programming for up to children and youth per week.

We run eight separate week-long, overnight camp sessions running from Monday-Saturday morning for children ages 8-14. We also run a session for youth 15-17 and a family camp week.

We strongly value building mentoring relationships with our campers, prayer, servant-hearted leadership, and, ultimately, sharing the gospel and love of Christ with our campers through Bible lessons, intentional conversations and daily cabin devotions.

This role starts in early-June as you will work in a team of 5 to plan camp. This includes coming up with games, skits, campfires, activities, purchasing necessary supplies for camp, decorating buildings on-theme, and more.

Once camp starts, you will work with the program team to run the camp schedule (ringing the bell to signal transitions, announcing and explaining games, running campfires and leading mealtimes).

You will also work with the team to print and distribute staff schedules, organize activities, gather supplies for campfires and talent shows, and support the counsellors with managing campers.

In addition to working together to plan and lead camp program, each team member has a specialized area of focus : yours will be all things audio-visual.

You will be responsible for taking high-quality photos of each camp session and creating a session-end video celebrating the week to show each Saturday before campers go home.

You will also run the daily photography activity. There are two time slots for this activity : one for children ages 8-11, and another for children ages 12-14.

ResponsibilitiesAs Audio-Visual Coordinator, you will also be responsible for running sound for our worship team, creating and running slideshows for worship, announcements, etc.

and you may be requested to gather background music and / or media for our weekly talent shows.Generally, the Audio-Visual Coordinator role is split with 80% focus on running camp program with the team and 20% focus on audio-visual tasks.

This job requires fantastic cooperation and teamwork skills, an ability to work both behind the scenes and command attention from a group, enthusiasm and creativity, and strong ability to pace yourself.

Ultimately, we are looking for a servant-hearted leader with a heart for ministering to children and youth from low-income families.

This job can be challenging at times, but this could also be the best summer of your life! If this role interests you, we strongly encourage you to apply to be part of our SMC team for !Required Experience and Education Desire to build mentoring relationships with, and care for the needs of, childrenAbility to positively influence, motivate and instruct children spiritually, emotionally, socially and intellectually.

Vibrant personal relationship with God and willingness to share openly about the gospelAbility to teach daily photography activity for children ages 8-14Strong, creative videography and video editing skillsKnowledge of sound systems and ability to help set up microphones for worshipAbility to speak dynamically in front of a group (and get them excited!)Willingness to create and engage in some spontaneous programming (skits, games, etc)Creative problem-solving abilityAbility to maintain a positive attitude, even when tiredExperience working with individuals and groups of children of various ages and abilitiesServant-hearted leadership skillsAbility to sustain the physical demands of an outdoor residential camp setting.

Conscientious in matters of personal ethics and lifestyle.Fantastic cooperation, teamwork and conflict management skillsProfessionalism, maturity and ability to maintain confidentialityMust work within and support The Scott Mission’s Christian Statement of Faith, Goals and Objectives ApplyInterested applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume to : The Scott Mission welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.Employment is conditional to results of Police Reference Check and satisfactory reference.