THE JOB
Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway sports summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 13th to August 10th, 2026.
Cobbossee is looking for talented and motivated, male and female, counselors to coach a variety of sports to our campers this summer. The aim of this summer job is to develop vast experience in the curriculum management, relationship development and engagement of campers aged 7-16 through a variety of sports and activities.
These primarily align with assistant coaching positions in our teams at; Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Lacrosse, Golf, Hockey and Tennis where an experienced (and often decorated) college or high school coach will mentor and develop your coaching skills.
If you have interest or experience in developing young athletes in any of these areas in your future, or just love playing and sharing these sports, we have specialist roles available.
Your head coache will provide close mentorship and manage you closely, providing support and iterative evaluation to provide an summer work experience that provides vast contact time with a range of ages of young athletes. This will develop your communication, group management and leadership skills a ton.
Our motto is “Brotherhood through sports and adventure” and that starts with our outstanding staff. Our delightful campers (age 7-16) will look up to you as role models and friends. There will be powerful moments when you help them learn life lessons and inspire them to achieve things they didn’t think were possible. You will be delightfully challenged as well! Camp is an opportunity for everyone to push themselves, try new activities, learn new sports and build lasting friendships. You will grow professionally and personally through this experience.
If you are a specialist with coaching or playing experience, you’ll have the opportunity to play the sport you love on our amazing facilities all summer long. Summer camp provides meaningful experience to build your resume in a sports-centric field whilst providing a diverse and exciting work experience.
THE BENEFITS
Ever wanted to see New England? Well, in addition to your Salary and Bonus, Cobbossee will provide you with a Travel Stipend so you can get out to Maine without spending your own money. (That’s right, we cover your travel so that you can take this adventurous internship).
Room and board is also provided ALL SUMMER LONG, so you won’t have any outgoings whilst at camp. Our female staff live separately to our boys and male staff in single gender accommodation. Inhouse benefits include an on-site laundry, staff room, weight room, arranged travel offsite and facilities use all summer. If you like to eat, you are in luck because the food is famously good at Cobbossee. No, really, it is! Check out our website.
Further, and maybe most importantly for a summer work experience; days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous college-aged folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year. We have a very rich social scene over the summer, hiring men and women from all over the states and world.
THE BOTTOM LINE
“Summer jobs” are often seen as throwaway jobs. Not here. This job is going to challenge you. You are going to give of yourself, have an absolute blast, develop strong friendships with your peers, and really make a difference in young people’s lives. Please read our Handshake reviews. Our Staffing Director’s will also be happy to connect you with last years’ staff members if you want to hear about it from them first hand.
You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. We develop counselors like we develop campers. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.
WHAT TO DO NEXT
You should immediately head to https://www.campcobbossee.com/experience/#work and apply online. Our Staffing Directors will be in touch very quickly. You can also call us at 800-473-6104 if you have questions.
For anyone not familiar with the huge world of sleepaway camps in New England, it works as follows:
All over the northeast each summer, families send their boys and girls up to New England to spend anywhere from a couple weeks to the entire summer at a sleepaway camp. Sometimes people who are not from the east coast see this as a strange choice, maybe even a mean choice! “Don’t they like their kids?” the question goes. Of course they do. They love their children and it’s hard for them to be away from them for the time they are at camp. But parents sacrifice time with their kids in the summer because summer camp is really good for young children. Camp (especially longer-term camps of four-to-eight weeks) teaches children independence, self-reliance, and confidence through the teaching of new skills, improving at sports, and living away from home. It isn’t always easy. But it is worth it! Crucial to this process are you, the counselor. You become like a family member to the campers in your cabin. In fact, you will find yourself developing really fast yourself, just so you can be the best counselor and instructor possible for your kids! It is rewarding, challenging, and transformative work to care for campers.
