Recreation Center Assistant Manager

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

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 the Parks and Recreation Center Manager in monitoring a budget; maintaining records; and preparing operational reports.

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 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 duties of a similar nature or level.

• Performs other related work as required.

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 months of hire.

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