Recreation Specialist - Part Time - Sports Management

The Part time Recreation Specialist I – Sports Management duties will include but not be limited to:

Planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating youth and adult athletic leagues, programs, services and operations of Sports Management while providing excellent customer service to internal and external customers.

Leading/ instructing activities in field of expertise and managing facility operations while adequately ensuring safety standards for facility, program and participants.

Provide leadership, supervision, training, scheduling, mentoring/coaching, and evaluation of part time staff and volunteers

Enforce City and Department policies, procedures and practices

Assist in facility supervision during events to include set up and breakdown as required

Recommend and submit equipment and supply orders, complete inventories, inspect, report on and repair assigned equipment to ensure safety

Assist staff in routine problem solving

Research, recommend and implement new ideas/resources for programs and activities

Investigate and document accidents and incidents

Assist in coordination of facility use to include processing reservation requests

Assume duties of supervisors in their absence

Operate City vehicles  

Perform other job duties requiring skills, knowledge and physical requirements as demanded by those duties described or less. Individual assignments will be determined by the supervisor based on then current workloads and department needs.

MINIMUMS: Requires a Bachelors degree in recreation management, therapeutic recreation, exercise science, or a related field; OR any combination of education (above the high school level) and/or experience equivalent to four (4) years in fields utilizing the required knowledge, skills, and abilities and associated with such positions as recreation leader or recreation program supervisor. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Please see job link in the posting description.

This posting is open until filled. Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted ongoingly until selections are made.
Days, nights, weekends and holidays- schedule will be based on sport, season and event schedules.
Approximately 20 hours per week, hours may increase or decrease weekly based on sport seasons and event schedules
The individual selected for this position will be housed at a primary site but may be scheduled between other park sites/facilities. Schedules will be adjusted seasonally and will vary weekly based on events, facility coverage, and weather.
Some assignments may require overtime or split shifts to cover operational needs.
All employees may be expected to work hours in excess of their normally scheduled hours or maybe be relocated to another location or job assignment in response to short- term department needs and/or City-wide emergencies including weekends, evenings and holidays.
As a condition of employment, all part-time employees must attend P&R Connection (Department Orientation). If selected for the position, you will be provided your training date at the time of hire. Training is held from 8:30am-5:00pm, every other Friday, at the Parks & Recreation Administration Building. When an exemption is permittable, a hybrid version of the training is available, but will require training attendance on a weekend.