Personal Trainer

LOCATION: The Salvation Army - Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center - Phoenix, Arizona

STATUS: Non-Exempt/On Call

MISSION STATEMENT:

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Salvation Army is seeking a Personal Trainer for the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, Phoenix. The Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center is a 147,000sf building with over 20 indoor rooms and spaces including: a chapel with performing arts space, music room, library, computer room, and numerous classrooms; active recreation space with a fitness center, wood floor studio, indoor pool with waterslides and sprays, a gymnasium with three NBA-sized courts, a walk/jog track, and a boxing room; and, a large community gathering hall with a kitchen, dance studio, teen center, wellness center, and more. In addition, there are outdoor fields, an amphitheater, water spray-ground, patio, and plazas. The Kroc Center will be an amazing resource to the community and will fulfill the benefactors’ vision of a community center for arts, education, recreation, spiritual guidance, and wellness…a place for nurturing and developing the mind, body, and spirit.

The Personal Trainer will be responsible for providing users of the facility with a personalized fitness and healthy lifestyle program, which includes assessment of their fitness needs and then prescribing an exercise/lifestyle plan that will assist the users in achieving their goals. The Personal Trainer will also complete any other assigned task as directed by the Fitness Coordinator.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of one year’s experience as a personal trainer and/or fitness instructor preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in exercise science or related field preferred.
• Certification as a personal trainer, fitness instructor, or conditioning specialist from a NCCA-accredited certification organization (e.g. ACE, ACSM, NASM, NSCA)
• Successful completion of the facility’s internal training requirements within 90 days of employment.
• AED, CPR/First Aid certification.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To greet each user and guest who enters the fitness floor with an engaging and enthusiastic attitude and ensure that they get to know that individual by name.
• To provide users with a personalized fitness program, including the development of the fitness program, instruction in the execution of the program, and supporting the users in adhering to the prescribed program.
• To achieve monthly personal training and related revenue program targets, as established by the facility.
• To provide support in properly maintaining and cleaning the fitness equipment and fitness floor.
• To maximize the safety of each user by assisting in appropriate fitness area/equipment instruction/supervision and appropriate exercise program development based on each individual’s health and fitness condition.
• Greet each user and guest by name when they are on the fitness floor, including establishing a relationship with each individual you greeted.
• Conduct new user assessments and orientations.
• Promote the facility’s personal training and related fitness services to users and guests.
• Provide personal training and any related personal instruction for users and guests appropriate to each individual’s health and fitness status.
• Assist in facilitating personal contact between users when they are on the exercise floor.
• Assist with the preventative maintenance and cleaning of the fitness equipment.
• Assist with the cleaning and care of the fitness area.
• Willingly step up and assist with other facility service responsibilities, including teaching group-fitness classes, as may be required to ensure that the facility delivers upon its Medical Fitness Association commitment to excellence.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements of the position. The Salvation Army will attempt to satisfy requests as long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship would result.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl and reach with hands and arms on a continuous basis. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Must have the ability to operate telephone, a desktop or laptop computer, as well as the ability to access and produce information from a computer, and to understand written information.