Recreation Center Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Description GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB This is the first of five levels in the Parks and Recreation series.Incumbents assist the Parks and Recreation Center Manager in planning, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring recreational and/or sports activities. Responsibilities may include determining recreational or sports offerings; supervising seasonal and part-time staff; scheduling the use of facilities; inspecting facilities; establishing and monitoring facility maintenance schedules; assisting Parks and Recreation Supervisor in monitoring a budget; maintaining records; and preparing operational reports. ***PLEASE NOTE: KNOWLEDGE OF DEVELOPING RECREATION PROGRAMS IS PREFERRED

THIS POSITION WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH MAY 14, 2026, OR UNTIL FILLED.*** Example of Duties SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Essential Functions: Assists the Parks and Recreation Center Manager in supervising seasonal and part-time staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff are trained; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; and maintaining a healthy and safe working environment. Assists the Parks and Recreation Center Manager in planning and organizing the day-to-day programs and activities, developing short and long-range plans, prioritizing projects, and assigning tasks, monitoring the work of subordinates, responding to citizen requests and complaints, and reviewing programs. Monitors and inspects facility which may include scheduling facility reservations, monitoring facility maintenance and reporting any work orders; and ordering supplies and equipment as needed

Assists the Parks and Recreation Center Manager with budget preparation and monitoring a budget. Prepares operational records and reports to include payroll, cash reports, work orders, and supply inventory list. Performs other work as required.

Typical Qualifications MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING Education and Experience High school diploma or GED equivalent. License and Certifications Possession of a valid driver's license. First Aid, CPR, and AED Certified within nine (9) months of hire.

Supplemental Information MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED Knowledge Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of: Supervisory principles. Developing recreational programs and administering programs within a community center. General knowledge of a wide range of sport and recreational activities.

Basic budgeting principles. Customer service principles. Computers and related software applications.

Skill in: Supervising employees and developing a work schedule. Overseeing recreation facility and equipment. Planning, developing, supervising, and managing programs and/or events.

Providing customer service. Monitoring budgets. Preparing and maintaining records and reports.

Using a computer and related software applications. Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements: The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently to or constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required: Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand. Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound. Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.

It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles. Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes. Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something steady to thrust forward, downward, or outward. Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely. Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time. Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

It occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles. Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.