Youth Leaders

Tim Hortons Foundation Camps help youth from underserved communities achieve their full potential through multi-year overnight camp experiences. Whether at camp or back home in their communities between visitsour youth work to build social emotional leadership and innovation skills and behaviours like volunteerism and motivation to learn so they become civically and academically engaged and successfully transition to adulthood.

At Tims Camps we are catalysts for goodhelping our youth participants and teammates be the best they can be developing personal and career growth. We empower young people with skills to open doors to their future. That is our North Star and together we help shape leaders that build stronger communities.

Camp Counsellor
Camp Counsellors are responsible for creating an inclusive and supportive environment where campers can discover use and develop their skill sets. They provide continuous care of our campers and treat all aspects of camp (both in-camp and in the wilderness setting if applicable) as facilitated moments.
Contract Length
Establish relationships with youth aged 11-17 that reflect respect trust and empathy

• Exhibit a constant duty of care for our campers and appropriately assess and respond to risks
• Be challenged physically and mentally as you live in an overnight camp for 8-day sessions with 3 days of break in between
• Support the successful execution and delivery of intentional camp programs connecting them to the program outcomes
• Supervise and participate in all assigned aspects of the campers day including morning activities cabin clean-up mealtimes rest hour evening activities getting ready for bed and after hours duties as assigned.
• Use respectful positive behaviour management techniques
• Contribute positively to the camp team and culture

At least 18 years old

• Experienced at working with youth aged 11 17
• Certified in Emergency First Aid CPR (adult child infant) with AED or willing to obtain
• Ability to live on-site for an extended period of time and work flexible hours

Accommodation and meals are included for the duration of the contract

• Bonus when you refer employees
• Contract completion bonus
• Bonus for staff working on our French-speaking site
• Have a positive impact on the lives of young people
• To learn more about the impact of the experience you will take part in watch this short video

Commitment to Equity Diversity & Inclusion
Tim Hortons Foundation Camps (THFC) is committed to a fair and inclusive work environment and seek talent with diversity of life experiences and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer that hires talent regardless of age race creed color religion national origin ancestry marital status affectional or sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability nationality sex status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected grounds and will not discriminate on these bases.
If you have special accessibility requirements that need to be considered during the recruitment process please let us know by emailing us at and a member of our HR team will get back to you.