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Join the Shorewood School District’s Recreation & Community Services Department as a Recreation Program Manager. This full-time leadership position offers the opportunity to design, implement, and manage inclusive recreation programs and community events that serve our entire community. Reporting to the Director of Recreation and Community Services, you will oversee operations, manage personnel, and foster connections within our diverse community, ensuring high-quality, impactful programming.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Development and Management
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Assess community needs and interests to design innovative, inclusive recreation programs.
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Plan, implement, and evaluate a wide range of activities, including aquatics, youth and adult enrichment, family and special events, and volunteer coordination.
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Continuously improve existing programs through feedback and data-driven analysis to meet evolving community demands.
Leadership and Supervision
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Recruit, hire, train, supervise, and evaluate staff, seasonal employees, and volunteers, fostering a positive and team-oriented work environment.
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Develop and implement staff training programs, including orientations, certifications in CPR, First Aid, and aquatics safety.
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Ensure staff and volunteer alignment with departmental goals and community expectations.
Operational Oversight
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Coordinate the scheduling and use of facilities for programs, ensuring optimal utilization and accessibility.
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Manage administrative functions, including payroll, marketing, and program reporting.
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Ensure compliance with safety standards and best practices.
Community Engagement
- Serve as a liaison to community organizations, special interest groups, and committees, fostering strong relationships to expand recreational opportunities.
- Maintain positive public relations, promoting programs and services to the community.
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Bachelor’s degree in Recreation Administration, Sports Management, Education, or a related field, or have comparable work experience in a related field.
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Demonstrated experience in managing comprehensive programs, events or activities, including leadership and supervisory roles.
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Strong organizational, programming, and communication skills.
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Flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed to meet program demands.
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National Certification as a Parks and Recreation Professional (CPRP).
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Lifeguard Instructor, First Aid, CPR/AED Instructor certifications.
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Water Safety Instructor (WSI) certification and aquatics programming experience.
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Certified Pool Operator (CPO) or Aquatic Facility Operator (AFO) certification.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS:
The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach, carry, push and or pull with hands and arms; and lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus. Generally the job requires a significant degree of walking or standing.
MENTAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information, and documents; analyze and solve non-routine and complex problems; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; work under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interact with school district staff, parents, students, the public and others encountered in the course of work.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities. Employees work in a setting typical of a general public school and may occasionally work outside in unfavorable weather conditions. The noise level is moderate with varying levels throughout the day.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:
In accordance with applicable federal, state and/or local law, the Shorewood School District does not discriminate against any District employee or applicant for employment in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits and other aspects of employment on the basis of age, sex, race, religion, national origin (including limited English proficiency), ancestry, creed, color, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, transgender status (including gender expression, gender identity and gender nonconformity), or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability, citizenship status, arrest or conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of a lawful product off school premises during non-working hours, declining to attend a meeting or participate in any communication about religious or political matters, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law. As used in this policy, the term discriminate includes harassment on the basis of any of the foregoing factors.
Subject to and in accordance with applicable federal, state, and/or local law, reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified individuals with a disability, unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship to the District. The District accommodates the religious practices of an employee to the extent required by law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Human Resource Coordinator, at (414) 961-2853 or humanresources@shorewood.k12.wi.us
Candidate Requirements
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- Custom Questions