Part-Time Seasonal Camp Coordinator

About Our Organization

Piedmont Wildlife Center is a Durham-based non-profit organization encouraging conservation and inspiring people to build lifelong connections with nature through immersive outdoor education, citizen science, and wildlife stewardship. We pursue this mission through after school, homeschool, and year-round camp programming in the great outdoors. The Center also offers conservation-focused field trips and outreach programs with our Ambassador Animals.

Our camps operate out of Leigh Farm Park in Durham County and Blackwood Farm Park in Orange County. Both parks are remnants of 19th-century plantations and are on land that was once part of the shared territory of Saponi, Tuscarora, Occaneechi, Cheraw, Eno, Shakori, Catawba, and Lumbee nations. The county parks departments have preserved multiple historic structures in our locations. In addition, we operate camps at Umstead State Park in Wake County which was once a segregated park and indigenous territory.

It is imperative that we discuss this history with our staff and campers, amplify the stories of the indigenous and enslaved peoples who cared for the land and continue learning about and examining the parks’ legacy.

The part-time Seasonal Camp Coordinator provides flexible, on-the-ground support across all camp sites in Orange, Wake, and Durham counties. This floating role helps ensure staffing support, safety coverage, and smooth daily operations wherever additional help is needed.

This position is ideal for someone with camp experience who enjoys variety and can adapt quickly to different sites and teams.

• Provide on-site support at multiple camp locations
• Assist counselors and CITs with daily programming, supply delivery, and camper supervision
• Helps cover staffing gaps and individual camper needs
• Assists with supplies, set up, and daily logistics
• Communicates site needs and observations to Camp Program Managers

• Experience working with children in a camp or educational setting (preferably outdoors)
• Ability to travel between camp sites
• Strong adaptability and communication skills and a positive, flexible attitude
• Ability to work as part of a team in an outdoor environment