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Salary : $56,385.89 - $77,168.42 Annually
Location : STF Expo Center, 550 Expo Center Dr., Sioux City, IA 51101, IA
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 202600092
Department: Parks & Rec Admin/Trans
Division: Parks & Rec Administration
Opening Date: 08/14/2026
Closing Date: 9/14/2026 11:59 PM Central
Description
Join our Parks and Recreation team as a Recreation Coordinator and help grow one of the region's premier year-round outdoor recreation programs.
This dynamic role leads recreation programming, special events, facility operations, and community partnerships that create exceptional experiences for all ages. You'll oversee seasonal operations at Cone Park, including managing the winter snow tubing program, supervising staff, and ensuring safe, high-quality guest experiences. During the warmer months, you'll support trail stewardship, mountain biking initiatives, and other outdoor recreation opportunities. Bring your leadership, creativity, and passion for recreation to a team dedicated to enhancing quality of life through outstanding parks, trails, facilities, and programs.
This is a full-time position, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with additional evening, night, and weekend hours as needed. The schedule may flex based on operational demands and event scheduling.
All employees must reside within thirty (30) miles of Sioux City limits, which includes areas in neighboring Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Duties
Under the general direction of the Recreation Supervisor, serves as coordinator for the recreation department facilities and programming. Plans, supervises, and directs events for the daily operations and programs at Cone Park, swimming pools, Expo Center and other recreation buildings. Supervision is exercised over part-time and seasonal employees, program participants and facility users.

• Supervises and evaluates the work of a subordinate staff; effectively recommends personnel actions related to selection, performance, leaves of absence, grievances, work schedules and assignments, disciplinary procedures and administers personnel and related policies and procedures.
• Solicits the services of, and trains volunteers, as necessary, to satisfactorily coordinate events held through the Parks and Recreation Department.
• Responds to inquiries, complaints and requests from the general public.
• Assists with social media management for the department.
• Coordinates daily operations/private rentals at Cone Park, Expo Center, Swimming Pools and other City recreation facilities.
• Create, implement, and oversee recreational programming.
• Oversees the Sioux City Parks and Recreation Camp Programs.
• Participates in short-term and long-term strategic planning efforts for programming, Cone Park, Expo Center, swimming pools and other Departmental facilities and programs as assigned.
• Flexibility to occasionally work outside regular office hours.
• Setup tables, chairs, audio-visual, concession, soccer goals, basketball hoops, aquatic and other equipment as needed for scheduled events.
• Maintains regular and punctual attendance at work.
• Carry out other duties as assigned by the Recreation Supervisor.
• Expected to temporarily perform duties outside of normal classification in the event of a declared emergency. In the event that an employee is excused from work other than being sick, they will be required to report to work in a state of declared emergency.

Qualifications
Cognitive Demands, Skills and Abilities: Ability to speak clearly so others can understand you; ability to identify and understand the speech of another person; ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences; actively looking for ways to help people; being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do; teaching others how to do something; ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense; ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong; ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem; understanding written sentences and paragraph in work-related documents.
Job Knowledge: Knowledge of the methods, practices and trends of community based recreation program administration; knowledge of the methods, practices, and trends of winter, aquatics , outdoor ice rinks, and other recreation activities; ability to select, train and supervise facility and recreational staff; thorough knowledge of first-aid methods and safety precautions to be used in administration of a wide range of recreation programs; ability to resolve conflicts; scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others; knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, this includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction; knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Language Ability and Interpersonal Communication: Requires effective communication skills and the ability to provide assistance to customers (external and internal); ability to write and speak effectively with fellow employees, City Council, and the general public; ability to speak clearly so others can understand you; ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors and the general public; read in English; apply common sense understanding to the work process, procedures, programs and services; ability to provide and follow verbal and written instructions; ability to work as a member of a team in order to accomplish tasks.
Physical Requirements: Ability to see details at a distance; ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Regularly lifts up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifts up to 30 pounds.
Work Environment: Forty percent of work is performed in a normal office environment with appropriate heating and cooling and is not subject to significant occupational or environmental hazards other than those normally associated with general public contact, dust or odors. Sixty percent of work duties may require lifting while working with staff setting-up facility events and programs, conducting facility rental walk-through, and overseeing recreation and programming. Some work shifts may involve long hours, depending on the time of year schedule to include nights and weekends. The work environment can be noisy, with loud music and sounds during facility rental events. The employee regularly works in outside weather conditions with regular exposure to extreme heat and cold. Must be mobile and able to be "on-call" to handle emergencies relating to the facility.
Minimum Required Qualifications
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree in Leisure Studies, Parks and Recreation or a related field;
or
Graduation from an accredited area college with an Associate's Degree in Parks and Recreation or related field and 2 years of full-time experience in the recreation field;
or
Four years of full-time work experience in recreation, facility management or closely related field.
or
Any equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
For Full-Time employees and qualifying Transit and Library Part-Time employees, the City of Sioux City offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending Accounts, Life, Disability and Retirement. For more information on the benefits available, please visit our