Summer Program - Swim Coordinator REPOST

Summer Program - Swim Coordinator - 2026 - REPOST

Position Title: Summer Program - Swim Coordinator
School/Department: Educational Services Department
Job Location: Claymont Elementary and PS duPont Middle School
Supervisory Position: No
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Terms of Employment: Seasonal/Casual
Benefits Type: N/A
Reports To: Director, Educational Services
Salary: $22/hour
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Coordinate the summer swim program at our summer school location, ensuring the safety of children and adults.

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Lifeguard certification required.
• CPR training certificate required.
• Experience teaching children and young adult swim lessons, preferred.
• Experience working with special needs children, preferred.
• Ability to determine swimming level of participants
• Strong organizational and management skills essential.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills essential

• Coordinate and manage lifeguard and swim instructors’ schedules.
• Collaborate with summer building coordinators in developing class swim schedules.
• Distribute and keep on file signed permission slips for summer school students.
• Manage communication swim schedules with staff.
• Mange the swim deck including assigning staff to specific locations (pool, swim deck, lifeguard stand, outdoor water activities, etc).
• Educate instructors and lifeguards on how to work with special needs children inside and outside the pool.
• Mange swim lessons including grouping students by ability to ensure safety.
• Ensure chemical balances are at acceptable levels.
• Coordinate alternative activities on days the pool is not accessible.
• Oversee swim program to make sure that safety procedures, guidelines, and policies are followed.
• Warn students and adults of unsafe activities and enforce water safety policies and pool regulations.
• Provide first aid in the event of injury, rescue swimmers in danger or distress, and administer Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or artificial respiration, if necessary.
• Assess conditions for safety and develop an action plan for aquatics emergency.
• Inspect pool equipment, facilities, and water to make sure they are usable and safe.
• Oversee and assist in cleaning equipment and facilities.
• Open and close the pool daily according to established hours of operation.
• Instruct classes in fundamentals of swimming.
• Develop, set up, and implement lesson plans.
• Teach beginning skills needed for swimmers; examples: flips, kicks, body rolls, floating, breath control, and basic swim strokes.
• Educate swimmers on basic water safety.
• Use a range of activities to improve water confidence.
• Define and set lesson goals and objectives for individual swimmers
• Ensure the pool or training area is clean, well-maintained, and free of hazards
• Other duties as assigned.

Performs related work as required. (

NOTE:

The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to that position.)

Entry level

Full-time

Other

Primary and Secondary Education