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Below is a list of opportunities organized by location and by category of service. As part of your application to become a Jesuit Volunteer, we’ll ask about your service preferences, but we ask all applicants to be open to where the need is greatest, and we may ask you to consider options you had not initially thought about. Visit The JV Experience to learn more about the application process and please contact us if you have any questions.

Bethel Parks & Recreation Aquatic and Wellness Program

Position Title

Aquatics Community Health and Wellness Coordinator

Agency Website

Position Focus

Ameri Corps Status

Ameri Corps

Service Impact Area

Capacity Building

Primary Role

Activities or Day Space Coordination (Ameri Corps)

Length of Service Term

12 months

Primary Service Area

Education (Community)

Populations Served

Children and Families, Indigenous Communities, Seniors/Elders, Teens/At-Risk/Opportunity Youth

Other Issues and Roles

Health and Health Education

Brief Position

Description:

Join our team to help shape a new culture of aquatic health and safety in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. Share your passion for swimming with a community that’s had limited access to aquatic wellness opportunities yet is eager to learn. You will collaborate with local organizations and volunteers to grow future aquatic leaders and promote year-round physical, mental, and emotional health through aquatics.

You will receive strong support, while living within an amazing indigenous community, gaining valuable professional skills and making a meaningful impact on the health of our community.

Day in Life of JV

During the first weeks of service, you will spend time getting to know the community, meeting with partners, and learning about the local Yup’ik culture. You may also complete required training and certifications, and we will fully support you through that process.
Once you are established, you’ll be coordinating and leading activities, programs, and special events.
A typical day may start with teaching swimming lessons to at-risk teens, followed by a class of enthusiastic grade school students. After lunch, you visit a nearby school to introduce water safety courses and prepare them for upcoming pool time. They’re excited to try the inflatable kayaks. While you’re there, you help a parent choose the right aquatic class for her preschooler, and fourth grader.

You also convince her she should join the next adult session.
Back at the pool, you use your planning time to finish planning an upcoming special event: a community swim meet! You promote it through social media, and the local radio station. You print flyers to hang tomorrow. With the bit of time left, you report the results of the Parent/Infant Class you completed last week, to the Red Cross.
It’s the end of the service day, but no rush to get home. You enjoy your complimentary membership with a quick weight room session and some cardio on the treadmill, before you take a relaxing soak in the jacuzzi to end the day.

Required & Preferred Skills

Education Requirements

Associate's Degree or Some College

Driver's License Requirement

Vehicle Requirement

Nature of Driving

Spanish Language Requirement

No requirement other than English

Preferred Spanish Language Level

No requirement other than English

Additional Languages and Level Preferred

Yup'ik (common, short phrases like hello, ‘Waqaa’, and thank you, "Quyana'). To be learned on site.

Required experience,…