Camp Counselor

About Texas Sports Academy

Texas Sports Academy is Where Future Champions Excel in Academics and Athletics. Their innovative K-8 model, based in Austin, TX, uses AI-driven learning to accelerate academics, allowing students to master core subjects in just two hours a day. The rest of their day is dedicated to athletic training, skill-building, and personal development.

About the Role

This is a part-time, long-term position at the Texas Sports Academy, Lake Travis (Austin), TX. You will own the operational layer of a student-athlete's day, ensuring academic blocks and training sessions start on time and run smoothly. This role requires active presence and real-time decision-making.

• Compensation: $30/hr USD, equating to $30,000/year USD (assuming 20 hours/week, 50 weeks/year).
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:00 PM (choose your schedule within school hours).
• Work Hours: 15–30 hrs/week.
• Location: On-site at Texas Sports Academy, Lake Travis (Austin), TX.
• Contract Type: Independent contractor agreement with Crossover.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervising student-athlete transitions between the academic block, training sessions, and workshops (roughly 30% of your time), monitoring the clock, prompting students to move, and using positive reinforcement to keep movement orderly and on schedule.
• Preparing session materials before each block by gathering academic supplies, workshop materials, and training equipment, organizing them per the plan, and confirming setup matches the Coach's instructions before the session begins.
• Facilitating student-athlete engagement during the two-hour academic block and afternoon training (roughly 40% of your time) by monitoring participation, identifying disengagement early, and redirecting students using TSA-approved techniques without interrupting instruction.
• Monitoring the room, applying TSA-approved motivational techniques (positive reinforcement, structured prompts, real-time redirection).
• Keeping Texas Sports Academy's academic and training day running on schedule so Coaches can stay focused on instruction and training.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Coaching athletes, programming training, or running drills.
• Designing lessons, writing activity plans, or being accountable for academic outcomes.
• Inventing your own approach to student behavior; you will apply TSA's defined motivational techniques consistently.
• Managing facility tasks, carpool logistics, or after-hours events.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Work Location: Willing to work in person at our Lake Travis (Austin), TX campus.
• Availability: Available for at least 15 hours each week during school hours (Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM–4:00 PM), with a full-time option available.
• Authorization: Authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Professional or volunteer experience coaching children (e.g., athletics, debate, chess, or camp counseling).
• Experience working with children ages 5-14 in a structured setting (e.g., a school, camp, childcare program, tutoring program, or sports team).
• A specific example of setting high standards while giving a child strong support, resulting in significant, measurable progress.
• Experience coordinating people, materials, or activities in real time.
• Hands-on group management experience with kids in motion (e.g., youth sports coach, assistant coach, team manager, camp counselor, classroom aide, or after-school program staff).
• Comfort working in gyms, on fields, or in training facilities as well as classrooms.
• Experience in a mastery-based, competency-based, or structured learning program.
• Track record of keeping groups on schedule using positive redirection rather than escalating to adult intervention.