Parks & Recreation Internship

Parks & Rec Internship

– Camp Cobbossee for Boys –

Monmouth, Maine

THE JOB

Cobbossee is a 4-week, 2-session sleepaway summer camp in Maine. The dates for this position run from June 13th to August 10th, 2026. We run a premium, seasonal experience for 220 campers per session with 165 staff on site. For more information on what summer camping actually is, see the very bottom of this document!
 

We are looking for talented male OR female interns to work with our campers in a variety of positions this summer in front and back of house. This is a fantastic experience for those studying Parks & Recreation mixing an interpersonal, dynamic social role in the community with hard skills training in a large seasonal industry.
 

We promise you variety in your day to day role combining one-off camp-wide events with other daily tasks and duties. There will also be a LOT of fun!

Interns will undertake a full staff onboarding process at the beginning of summer to prepare for the coming sessions when we have 220 boys aged 8-15 on site! Formal feedback and review will happen weekly throughout the summer to help you to develop your professional skills in your role within our summer camp. 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND TRAITS

Personal initiative (this position will often problem solve alone or on a small team)

Excellent follow through and communication skills

Ability to work very hard (some days run surprisingly long)

Ability to socialize and communicate with the entire community of adults, peers and campers

Ability to work successfully with a wide variety of people and personalities. Our staff come from all over the world and states!
 

THE BENEFITS

Close mentorship and supervision in this role will provide a challenging work experience that will yield excellent professional skills for your future employment positions in any seasonal program.

The parks and rec intern will see the entire behind the scenes of Cobbossee’s program as well as help to run full camp special events. 

Further, days off and nights out are spent with other adventurous folks like you. Our counselors make lifelong friends at Cobbossee. Many return year-to-year.

The food is famously good at Cobbossee. Our head chef, Foluke, is extremely talented, creating delicious food for everyone at Cobbossee. We also provide great vegan and vegetarian options.

Outside of your working shift we want you to get as much as you can out of the camp experience. In your free time you can use our weights room, hang out in our air-conditioned staff lounge, swim in the lake, climb in our trees or join in any of our sports or activity sessions alongside the camper and staff community. 
 

OTHER BENEFITS

We can configure your employment this summer as an internship, or just a really great summer job. We make sure that your experience is converted into internship credit. If you are in any administration or business-related field (Parks & Recreation, Tourism, Communication, Administration, Business Studies, International Studies) this experience can be one of the best paid internships you can find.
 

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. 

You should come work at Cobbossee because we are one of the best. We develop staff like we develop campers. You will change for the better. It will truly be the summer of your life.
 

For anyone not familiar with the huge world of sleepaway camp,  it works as follows:

All over the northeast each summer, families send their boys and girls up to New England to spend a couple of 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! It is rewarding, challenging, and transformative work to care and provide summer camp  for campers.