Food Service Jobs at La Junta
Working at Camp La Junta is a great experience regardless of the position.  We feel most staff benefit as much as our campers.  You should know up front, however, that the days are long and the summer is hot.  We work hard and play hard, and the experience, the facilities, and the company you keep are excellent.

Each summer we hire about three kitchen assistants or interns and a head cook to work alongside our ARAMARK kitchen manager.  Our kitchen staff are employed by Camp but work directly with and for our ARAMARK management company ensuring the best kitchen environment and experience possible.

Kitchen assistants and interns are hired to support the head cook.  They will be asked to assist with food preparation, serving, cleanup, and inventory.  It is understood that their skills will increase as the summer goes along.  Their responsibilities will NOT normally include washing dishes, mopping the dining hall or waiting on tables.  However, as the camp is a family, period excitement can be generated when one of the cooks delivers a special desert to their favorite table.  

Usually, kitchen staff are housed on the camp grounds. Eventually if they request it, they can be placed with campers, but most often, they will  live in on-site staff housing immediately adjacent to the Dining Hall.

While hired primary for supporting duties, all Kitchen Staff are expected to live up to the same high standards of responsibility and leadership maintained by our counseling staff when interacting with campers.  Our entire staff's overall goal is to see that every boy leaves camp with a feeling of success, pride, confidence, independence, security and entertainment.  We expect that whenever possible all support staff support help boost campers and certainly never interfere with these ideals.

If you are self-motivated, prepared with skills for a fast-paced food service environment, committed to excellence, a top achiever, enjoy the outdoors, working around kids, living in a close knit community and are interested in joining the best summer staff on the planet, consider Camp La Junta

Requirements for Food Service Jobs
Our summer focus is most definitely on the kids.  Although our kitchen staff are not here solely to work with kids, they will be exposed to many aspects of camp life, and will come in constant contact with the kids in the dining hall and around camp.  Therefore, our ideal staff member makes common sense decisions, communicates well with others, has energy, enthusiasm and an interest in the needs of young boys.

We pride ourselves on serving high quality, kid-friendly meals.  We desire to keep every boy healthy and well fed in order to get the most out of his camp experience. We strive for constant improvement and innovation.  Therefore our ideal staff member is mature, hard working, positive and looking to go the extra mile.  Consistent effort is required, so that a staff member's performance and example to others are persistent, instilling a strong foundation of pride.

All of our staff members traditionally fit the "All-American" mold: clean, moral, hard working, high aspiring, young adults whom our parents can confidently count on as safe, stable, and potential role models for their sons.  This goes for support staff as well.  Your selection of appearance and attitude will influence our campers throughout the summer.

Because we are a community geared around our long term success, specific experience and food service certifications are not as important to us as the desire to learn and the will to succeed.  While food service experience is an important factor in assuring you know what the summer experience will be like, lack of experience does not disqualify your application.

If you are hard working and looking for a position which recognizes and rewards that effort, please read on.

Benefits for Food Service Staff
At Camp La Junta we value our support staff and strive to assure that they are among the best trained, supported, treated, remunerated and skilled staff in the camping community.  Kitchen Staff generally have more physically demanding job assignments than our counselor staff, but are offered additional compensation and an opportunity to participate in camp activities during free time.

All support staff members will receive ongoing training throughout the summer, especially during the first week of camp and staff training week.  We count on important life-time skills and successful corporate skills to run our camp and train our kids and want you to have them for the rest of your professional and academic career as well.  We want professional attitudes and professional skills, so we train and reinforce both throughout the summer.

• Time off: In addition to the great professional benefits, each member of the support staff will receive every evening and most mid-mornings and afternoons off. Time off generally follows responsibilities and not the clock, so as the summer progresses and your skills improve, so too will your free time.  This time ensures that you remain rested and able to perform at the highest standard, keeps you in touch with the outside world and allows time to cultivate relationships with your summer peers from around the state, nation and the world.  
• Within a well defined structure, support staff are encouraged to participate in camp activities to enhance their personal experience, to build relationships and to add to our campers experiences.
• La Junta maintains a staff lounge with games, video, computers, TV and air conditioning.
• Salary: If all this weren't enough, support staff are actually remunerated with at least $1000.00 per month for the camping season (roughly June 1 - August 10). Actual salaries are based upon age, work experience and specialized training.   Travel allowances to camp are provided to out of state staffers.  

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Camp La Junta | 830-238-4621 | P.O. Box 139 | Hunt, TX 78024