Recreation Leader

Posting number: 01058

Department: Parks & Leisure Services (Part-Time)

Job classification: Recreation Leader

Posting type: Open

Categories: Parks and Recreation

Summary

General Description:
The purpose of this class within the organization is to direct and implement programs in the City community centers. This class works under close supervision according to set procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the class as necessary.

Examples of duties

Essential Functions:
Supervises recreation aides and volunteer, and attends staff meetings and training sessions.
 
Implements policies and procedures.
 
Creates and maintains a safe environment for participants.
 
Conducts and attends staff meetings and training sessions.
 
Prepares records and reports.
 
Notifies stakeholders of upcoming events, activities, schedules and registration requirements.
 
Manages individual and group recreation programs.
 
Maintains and keeps records of participants on a daily basis.
 
Oversees daily operations of recreation facilities.
 
Monitors spectators and participants at sports events.
 
Additional Duties:
Assists and guides participants (children) to academic success.
 
Monitors issues and keeps track of supplies.
 
Assists and supports City special events.
 
Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts Data Responsibility:
Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation.  Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
 
Compares or inspects data, people, or things against a standard.
 
People Responsibility:
People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.
 
Supervises or leads others by determining work procedures, assigning duties, maintaining harmonious relations, and promoting efficiency.
 
Asset Responsibility:
Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
 
Requires minimum responsibility for only small quantities of low cost items or supplies where opportunities for achieving economies or preventing loss are negligible.
 
Mathematical Requirements:
Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.
 
Uses basic addition and subtraction, such as making change or measuring.
 
Communications Requirements:
Communications involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
 
Reads routine sentences, instructions, regulations, procedures or work orders; writes routine sentences and completes routine job forms and incident reports; speaks routine sentences using proper grammar.
 
Judgment Requirements:
Judgment requirements refer to the frequency and complexity of judgments and decisions given the stability of the work environments, the nature and type of guidance, and the breadth of impact of the judgments and decisions.
 
Responsible for the actions of others, requiring almost constant decisions affecting co-workers, crime victims, patients, customers, clients or others in the general public; works in a moderately fluid environment with guidelines and rules, but frequent variations from the routine.
 
Complexity of Work:
Complexity addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, concentration and creativity, required by the job and the presence of any unusual pressures present in the job.
 
Performs semi-skilled work involving set procedures and rules, but with frequent problems; requires normal attention with short periods of concentration for accurate results or occasional exposure to unusual pressure.
 
Impact of Errors:
Impact of errors refers to consequences such as damage to equipment and property, loss of data, exposure of the organization to legal liability, and injury or death for individuals.
 
The impact of errors is moderately serious – affects work unit and may affect other units or