Gymnastics Instructor

TITLE:

Gymnastics Instructor

DEPARTMENT:
Parks and Recreation

DATES:
Varies

PAY RATE:
Starting at $17.05/hr

General Task Statement:

The City of Evanston Gymnastics Program offers instructional classes to children ages 18 months to 14 years. The Gymnastics Instructor is responsible for coaching children ages 3.5 - 13 years old in preschool, beginning I & II, and/or advanced beginning in small group settings, according to the provided weekly lesson plans. Opportunities to coach private lessons and birthday parties are available.

Supervision:

This position reports to the Program Coordinator and Division Manager

Qualifications:

* Must possess previous experience in gymnastics, tumbling, or dance.

* Previous experience working with children in group settings preferred.

* Experience coaching gymnastics preferred.

Essential Function(s) - Task Statements:

* Attend staff training sessions

* Be positive, patient, and engaging

* Responsible for the safety of participants

* Instruct and facilitate program activities for participants, according to weekly lesson plans

* Assist with program set up as needed

* Maintain open communication with the Program Supervisor/Coordinator, other staff, and Family/Guardian/Caregiver with information concerning programming, families, and/or participants

* Report participant progress and behavior within program setting to parents/Supervisor

* Ensure all participants are properly dismissed to caregiver

* Communicate to supervisor(s) if there are problems or issues needing special attention

* Responsible for care and maintenance equipment and storage areas.

* Complete written reports such as accident, incident and the like on a timely manner

* Performs other duties as assigned by camp director, camp assistant directors or program manager

Schedule:

* Schedule is flexible.

* Classes offered weekday afternoons / evenings and weekends all day.

* Monday evening, Thursday evening, or weekend availability preferred.

* Summer availability preferred.

Specifications:

* Minimum Reasoning ability usually associated with this classification:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

* Minimum Language ability usually associated with this classification:

Read:
Ability to read staff manuals, memoranda, and attendance sheets.

Write:
Ability to complete attendance sheets, accident reports, incident reports and camper behavior reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, and style.

Speak:
Ability to give verbal direction to subordinates, communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, citizens, and the public as well as other employers; speaking extemporaneously on a variety of subjects.

* Amount of training, either on-the-job or formal education, usually associated with this occupation in addition to the reasoning, math and language abilities detailed above:

* At least 1 year experience working with children

* At least 1 year experience participating in team or club sports

* Degree of Physical Demands (strength) usually associated with the essential functions of this classification:

Light work:
Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for sedentary work. Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree. However, if the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

* Type of physical demands usually associated with the essential functions of this classification:

Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction

Handling: seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with

hands.

Talking:
Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.

Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds.

Feeling: perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture.

Tasting/Smelling:
Distinguishing, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognizing particular flavors and/or odors, using tongue and/or nose.

Climbing:
Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps, embankments, and the like using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.

Balancing:
Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.

Stooping:
Bending body downward or forward by bending spine at the waist.

Kneeling:
Bending legs at knees to come to a rest on knee(s)

Crouching:
Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine.

Crawling:
Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet

Seeing:
The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision…