Recreational Aide

Full Time Temporary Position 120 Workday Assignment (Potential 120 Workday extension)

The Recreational Aide position assists in providing leadership and guidance to students in a group living environment and provides practical guidance to students. This position assists students in understanding the relevance of and promotes the development of positive social skills among students through modeling appropriate behavior, positive intervention, and positively intervening and teaching appropriate healthy habits for stress relief, employability, and skills for workplace success.

Participates in the BMS and/or the SCC program as necessary to ensure proper workplace/community conduct, appearance, and behavior. Sets a positive example as a role model to students by displaying appropriate etiquette, timeliness, professionalism, and dress. Provides on-site supervision of recreational activities to students with various skill levels and backgrounds. Ensures a safe, healthy atmosphere for all students performing recreational and physical fitness activities. Ensures that self-directed activities are conducted in accordance with the recreational plans. Identifies and makes changes in processes and/or procedures in order to have full participation by students. Schedules, coordinates, and supervises recurring group activities, such as, basketball, volleyball, softball, including making reservations, arranging transportation, and other related arrangements and providing information concerning these activities based on overall recreation program plans. Identifies and recommends changes or modification to the recreation and physical fitness program. Performs special assignments in facility-wide programs or volunteer sponsored activities.

Meets individually with students to discuss day-to-day problems encountered in recreational and physical fitness activities. Gives practical advice and guidance to students and proposes solutions to routine problems without imposing personal values. Ensures that facilities are properly prepared, including need equipment and supplies are on-hand for schedules activities. Operates government vehicles to transport student to and from off-site activities.

Makes reservations, collects payments, and distributes information concerning games and activities. Responsible for ensuring students are aware of safety requirements concerning the activities, facilities, and equipment. Ensures compliance with and enforcement of all safety rules and regulations. Submits monthly recreation and other reports as required. Ability to communicate effectively with students to be able to address and answer questions to provide information, inspections, and counsel. Skill in maintaining order and recognizing social, behavioral or disciplinary problems to be able to promote harmony among students and obtain help for complicated problems from center staff. Instruct students on good sportsmanship, team cooperation, and group activities for health student interaction skills.

The Recreation Aide uses initiative in conducting recurring assignments independently without specific instruction from center staff. Interactions with students require a high degree of interpersonal skill and the ability to navigate possible hostile exchanges with professionalism and a calm demeanor.

Must be able to encourage participation and responsiveness to the program with students who may be resistant to leadership or direction. The position may require extreme physical exertion when participating in group sports or instructing students on proper activity engagement techniques. Position requires periods of sitting, standing, walking, and running in both indoor and outdoor environments.

Driving may be required.