Come spend the summer at an arts summer camp, supporting & inspiring youth! Now Hiring All Positions

At Caldera, we believe in the power of creativity.  Our mission is to inspire and support youth from underserved rural and urban communities by awakening the potential of their creative voice.  We do this through a unique fusion of art, environment and mentorship.  Our Youth Program provides students from Portland and Central Oregon with long-term relationships with caring adults, which nurtures individual creativity, beginning in sixth grade and continuing into young adulthood.  

Caldera has a $4M budget, a 18-member board, 15 full-time year-round employees, and a range of seasonally contracted artists and staff.  Its administrative office is in Portland, Oregon, and its Arts Center is located outside of Sisters in Central Oregon.

As part of Caldera’s summer learning team, you will gain leadership, communication, and collaboration skills and unparalleled resiliency while building meaningful relationships with young learners and adults. You’ll have daily opportunities to expand your own creativity and sense of adventure, upheld in a supportive community full of networking opportunities. During your time off, you’ll be centrally located in Oregon’s playground for play in the Cascade Mountains, sampling local flavor, or simply relaxing on Caldera’s 116 acres of awe-inspiring property.

Positions are open until filled. 

Location: This is a seasonal position at our Arts Center- 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 97756 (transportation not provided).  

Choose one or more sessions; placement is dependent on availability & scheduling (must be available for all dates in session(s) chosen). Must be available for training dates and on the following dates and times to start each session:

• Arrive 11:00 am June 30 for Staff Training June 30-July 3 
• Arrive between 1:00-2:00 pm July 5* for the Immersion 1 (High School) session July 6-15
• Arrive between 4:00-5:00 pm July 18* for the immersion 2 (High School) session July 19-27
• Arrive between 4:00-5:00 pm July 30* for the Discovery 1 (Middle School) session July 31-Aug 7
• Arrive between 4:00-5:00 pm Aug 10* for the Discovery 2 (Middle School) session Aug 11-18

*Indicates Half day compensation 

Artist Assistant:

Artist Assistants support Teaching Artists in various mediums to provide a rigorous arts curriculum for middle and/or high school campers. They provide a positive learning environment and deliver engaging arts lessons that reach a diverse population.

Connect Facilitator:

The Connect Facilitator develops and implements curriculum in which campers can explore making deeper connections with their peers, learn life skills, and process their life and camp experience with others. Connect class offers an excellent opportunity for youth to engage in meaningful discussions about pertinent, youth-driven topics such as peer pressure, cliques, and conflict. The Connect Facilitator incorporates program goals into facilitation and encourages campers to set goals, take positive risks, and challenge personal boundaries while at Camp Caldera. Ideal candidates for this position will be dynamic facilitators who stimulate conversation that makes lessons learned in Connect class relevant to campers’ home and camp lives.

Environmental Education Assistant:

The Environmental Education Assistant supports the Environmental Educator to implement environmental curriculum and incorporate program goals into daily sessions, inspire curiosity about nature, and build connections to the environment. This position will help facilitate discussions about environmental justice with a population that has historically been marginalized in the environmental movement.

Environmental Educator:

The Environmental Educator is responsible for designing and facilitating environmental curriculum for middle and/or high school campers. They provide a positive learning environment and deliver engaging lessons that reach a diverse population, incorporate program goals into daily sessions, inspire curiosity about nature, and build connections to the natural world. This position will facilitate discussions about environmental justice with a population that has historically been marginalized in the environmental movement.

Lead Cook:

At Caldera, the kitchen staff is a very important part of the Caldera Community and is welcome to participate in daily program activities when kitchen duties are complete. Head Chef, Sous Chef, and up to five Kitchen Assistants maintain Caldera’s kitchen. Kitchen staff prepare meals that are healthy, delicious, and appealing to both youth and adults (roughly 100-120 each session). 

The Head Chef oversees six staff and is responsible for food preparation as well as maintaining a friendly, sanitary kitchen and dining space. This position manages the food budget (approximately $23,000), purchasing, meal planning, staff oversight and scheduling for the Sous Chef and five assistants, and on-the-job training for all kitchen staff. The Head Chef ensures that Caldera meals meet Federal Summer Food Service Program meal requirements. This position begins before youth and staff arrive.

Health Director:

The Health Director is responsible for providing medical and preventative care to all campers and staff during training and camp sessions.

Junior Advocate:

This position is intended to help train, mentor, and provide feedback for individuals with limited experience who are interested in becoming youth workers. Each Junior Advocate supports a group of four to eight campers per camp session and works to build a fun and cohesive team with assigned campers as well as the greater camp community. The Junior Advocate will take over for Advocates as assigned by the Junior Advocate Supervisor.

Kitchen Assistant:

At Caldera, the kitchen staff is a very important part of the community and is welcome to participate in daily program activities when kitchen duties are complete. Head Chef, Sous Chef, and five Kitchen Assistants maintain Caldera’s kitchen and prepare meals that are healthy, delicious, and appealing to both youth and adults (roughly 100-120 per session). Kitchen Assistants are responsible for meal preparation and maintaining a friendly, sanitary kitchen and dining space. This position begins before youth and staff arrive.

Lifeguard & Activities Assistant:

The Lifeguard & Activity Assistant oversees planning and delivery of waterfront activities that are safe, fun, and appropriate to campers’ age and abilities. They will provide management to the physical operation of the waterfront’s facilities and equipment. The Lifeguard & Activity Assistant also supports set up, organization, and facilitation of other camp activities such as games and campfires.

Cook:

At Caldera, the kitchen staff is a very important part of the Caldera Community and is welcome to participate in daily program activities when kitchen duties are complete. Head Chef, Sous Chef, and up to five Kitchen Assistants maintain Caldera’s kitchen. Kitchen staff prepare meals that are healthy, delicious, and appealing to both youth and adults (roughly 100-120 each meal). 

The Sous Chef supports the Head Chef in food preparation and training Kitchen Assistants as well as maintaining a friendly, sanitary kitchen and dining space. The Sous Chef oversees the kitchen when Head Chef is not present and assists in ensuring that Caldera meals meet Federal Summer Food Service Program meal requirements. This position provides support to the Head Chef on budget management (approximately $23,000), staff oversight, and scheduling for Kitchen Assistants. This position begins before youth and staff arrive.

Teaching Artist:

Teaching Artists are responsible for designing and facilitating rigorous arts curriculum for middle and/or high school campers. They provide a positive learning environment and deliver engaging arts lessons that reach a diverse population.

Youth Advocate:

The Youth Advocate is an important and challenging job at Camp Caldera. Working with a group of six to eight campers each camp session, an Advocate’s daily responsibilities include: building positive relationships with students individually and in groups, facilitating activities, playing hard, promoting self-discipline and self-awareness among campers, and safeguarding campers physically and emotionally. A Youth Advocate is more than a camp counselor role, they act in the best interest of the youth that they are working with, ensure that youth's needs are being met, and aid in skill building and social-emotional development. Time spent with students is upbeat and nonstop, and Advocates start and end all days with youth.

Photographer & Media Coordinator:

The Camp Photographer & Media Coordinator plans, captures, and organizes media from camp activities and projects.