SUP Director Application 2025

About the position:

SUP Directors will oversee the operation of one of 12 summer day camps. Camps will operate fully in person in 2025 unless public health guidance is prohibitive. Successful candidates will demonstrate creativity, willingness to innovate, interest in change management, and a child-centered approach to program development.

SUP Directors serve in a volunteer capacity from January 1, 2025 through May 31, 2025. During the spring, directors must attend weekly training on Fridays from 3-5PM beginning in early February 2025. Directors receive $6,000-7,000 in internship funding plus subsidized housing to support the 12 weeks of SUP work (June-August 2025).

The priority deadline is November 1. Applications submitted after that date will be considered on a rolling basis. If this application is still visible then interviewing for positions are open. Contact the Summer Urban Program Group Officers at sup@pbha.org with any questions or concerns you may have about the application and interview process. Please contact the current program directors with specific questions about their programs.

Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE)

Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP)

Chinatown Adventure (CHAD)

Keylatch Summer Program (KSP)

Franklin I-O (FIO)

Mission Hill Summer Program (MHSP)

Roxbury Youth Initiative (RYI)

Recent Immigrant Summer Enrichment (RISE)

South Boston Outreach Summer (SBOS)

Junior Leaders in Communities (JLinC)

Leaders

LEADERS! Program
How the Leaders Director is different from other SUP programs:

The Leaders! Director coordinates teen employment for the 100 Junior Counselors that serve as co-teachers in our 10 summer camps. They are responsible for working directly at two of the sites, providing mentorship and professional coaching for a cohort of around 20 teens. They are also responsible for coordinating two weeks of professional leadership development programming for the teen staff (one week before and one week after camp). Finally, they work with central SUP administration to plan the annual Midsummer Celebration, a Junior Counselor co-led carnival that brings together our 800 SUP participants and their families.

If you are not offered a Director position, would you like to be considered for the position of Senior Counselor at the programs selected above?

Yes, I want to be considered for bothNo, I only want to be considered for Director at this timeNot sure - I will complete the Senior Counselor application separately should I want that position

Camp Director Essay: As a SUP director, you will be in charge of a particular camp but also be expected to cooperate and help with PBHA and SUP-wide efforts by working with directors from other camps. Do you have any experience working on a team? If so, please elaborate on this experience, your strengths and areas of growth, and the role in which you see yourself playing on the SUP team. How might you help to make sure SUP runs well while ensuring the excellence of your own program?

All director applicants: What does service to youth and families mean to you and how does it connect to your interest in directing SUP?

If you are interested in applying for the Leaders! Director position, please read about the position and the Leaders! Program before answering the following questions.

Leaders! Director Essay 1 Prompts (500 word minimum):

a) What characteristics, experiences, and abilities do you have which would help you be an effective Leaders! Director given the wide range of duties and extensive workload that come with the job? Please elaborate specifically on strengths and experience in youth development, leadership and professional skills training, event planning, and fundraising.

b) As a Leaders! Director, you will be required to support the professional and personal development of high school student junior counselors (JCs) at two different SUP Camps. You would work collaboratively with the SUP Directors at these two sites to support JCs to be effective teachers and role models and community leaders. Please describe any experience you have with motivating staff and how would you approach collaboration with the SUP Directors to support professional development and accountability in the workplace?

Leaders Director Essay 2 Prompts (500 word minimum): a) As a Leaders! Director, you will meet individually and in groups with Junior Counselors from two SUP Camps, attend staff meetings for two camps, and work with up to four other Leaders! Directors to coordinate training for 100 JCs and organize the largest SUP-wide event of the year serving 1500 participants and families across all 10 camps. You will be supported by two Directors of Programs (one for the site specific duties and one for the central Leaders! responsibilities). Do you have any experience working on a team? If so, please elaborate on this experience and the role in which you see yourself playing on the SUP team. What is your teamwork style like? Explain how you resolve conflict in a team setting. b) At times it can be difficult to balance being responsive to the developmental needs of individual Junior Counselors with the interests of SUP as a whole and managing Leaders! SUP-wide programming, such as training and big events. How might you help to make sure SUP-wide Leaders! programming runs well while thoughtfully providing individual support to all of your of Junior Counselors?

Professional Qualifications

Please upload a PDF of your resume, file name: "Firstname_LastName_Resume_2025". It must be file type .pdf in order to upload.

For returning Directors, please also upload your letter of intent that has been submitted to the SUP Programming Group Officer (formatted "Firstname_LastName_SUPLetterofIntent_2025") It must be file type .pdf in order to upload.

PBHA must verify the information you have provided for licensing purposes. Please suggest three people that we can contact about your history below.

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PBHA is an equal opportunity employer. In order to employ you as a Director, PBHA is required to complete three background checks for you in addition to your references. PBHA must complete a Massachusetts CORI request, a SORI request, and, if you hold permanent residence in a state other than Massachusetts, a criminal background check in your home state. All of these are required by the agency that licenses PBHA SUP camps and must be complete in advance of camp start dates to avoid negative action against the camp or individuals that could prevent camps from running each day that licensing requirements are not met.

As a requirement by Massachusetts law for working with children I authorize PBHA to perform criminal and sex offender background checks on my record. The results of these background checks will not be requested or considered in hiring decisions but may affect eligibility to work with children after hired. I understand that PBHA may also contact Harvard or my host institution for information and consent to release of information. I have completed the necessary pieces of this application truthfully and to the best of my knowledge.

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