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STARS Youth Recreation Counselor 28/10

4 months ago

Fort Myers, United States City of Fort Myers, FL Full time

Description

The City of Fort Myers strives to be an employer of choice and most of our employees turn jobs into long term careers. The salary shown in the job description is the full range for this position from entry to later career.

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Safety Sensitive: YES Level II Screening: YES

* THIS IS A SEASONAL POSITION - 28hrs wk/10 weeks*

The role of STARS Youth Recreation Counselor is to gain work experience through assisting regular City employees in delivering high quality services to the Fort Myers community including recreational and educational activities, support services, and the operation of our parks and other facilities. This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Responsibilities and Reporting During an Emergency Situation:

Essential Employees may be required to work during a declared emergency. Depending on the nature of the emergency, this may require working around the clock for several days on short notice.

Non-Essential Employees will not be required to work during a declared emergency. The employee's Department Head will determine when the employee will be required to work.

Duties/Responsibilities

Youth Counselors may be assigned to one or more areas including Group Assignment, General Summer Experience, Front Desk or Lunch / Concessions. Some positions will overlap depending on schedule and previous experience.

* Help set-up, clean-up and take down tables and chairs for the summer camp program.
* Assist the camp counselors in special projects, such as arts & crafts, setting out gym equipment and putting equipment away.
* Assist counselors in daily group activities for campers.
* Assist with campers transitioning including Morning greeting (Parent Drop off / pick up); field trips; room transitions etc.
* Assist with lunch, snack times (set up, break down, and cleanliness of the facility)
* Assist with concessions transactions.
* Provide necessary activity set up including supplies, material, equipment, and/or water.
* Light clerical duties including attendance rolls, answering phones, or providing correct information.
* Light custodian duties
* This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee's physical presence at the workplace.
* Perform all other duties as assigned by supervisor.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

* Skill to make sound judgment.
* Skilled in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
* Follow verbal and written instructions.
* Must like and be willing to work with children.
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Minimum Requirements

* Must be 14 - 18 years of age, a student currently enrolled in school and a resident of the City of Fort Myers.

When assigned to working with Youth, must meet the Department of Children and Families (DCF) requirements and inspections.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

This work typically requires the following physical activities to be performed.

* Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.


* Climbing - ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.


* Crawling - moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.


* Crouching - bending body forward by bending leg, spine.


* Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.


* Fingering - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.


* Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.


* Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.


* Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.


* Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.


* Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.


* Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.


* Mental Acuity - ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.


* Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.


* Pushing - use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.


* Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.


* Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.


* Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.


* Standing - for sustained periods of time.


* Stooping - bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.


* Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word


* Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.


* Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.


* Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.


* Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.


* Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.


* Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.



Work performed is primarily:

* Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects



WORK ENVIRONMENT

* Contact with internal and external customers, vendors, outside agencies, and the general public



To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.