Program Instructor

Lee's Summit Parks and Recreation is an accredited, gold medal award-winning agency with over 45 full-time professionals and over 300 seasonal and part-time staff who provide the Lee's Summit community with dozens of quality recreational opportunities. EOE

Employment at LSPR guarantees the opportunity to learn communication and organizational skills, professionalism, and civic responsibility while building outstanding personal and work relationships.

$15.00 per hour

Responsible for teaching patron participants the basics of a specific sport or activity, providing a positive environment for participants and their parents; organizing classes and maintaining a safe environment.

Job Scope:

No supervisory or budgetary responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Under the general guidance of Supervisor, responsible for creating and planning content and instruction of the sport or activity assigned; conducting classes according to the established schedule and ensuring classes are timely and complete.
• Responsible for preparation and distribution of relevant materials and information to participants and/or parents/guardians.
• Responsible for setting up class area prior to and cleaning up after completion of each activity.
• Facilitates environment to enhance individual and group performance while ensuring safety, in an environment to ensure safety and health of participants.
• Interacts with participants and parents/guardians to ensure satisfactory patron experience and address areas of concern.
• Prepares and maintains appropriate reports as assigned.
• Responsible for notifying Supervisor of any issues related to program/activity, including comments from patrons.
• Enforces facility rules and regulations; takes appropriate action in the event of patron incidents.
• Attends regularly scheduled staff meetings.
• Ensures enforcement of rules and regulations of LSPR.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar or related to the position.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be at least 16 years of age.
• Basic knowledge of sport or activity to be provided preferred.
• Basic first aid, AED and CPR preferred.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to communicate with patrons professionally and respectfully.
• Skills in organizing, planning and preparing materials and evaluating goals and objectives. 
• Ability to analyze community needs, problem solve and implement solutions, and relate to the needs of all age groups. 
• Ability to establish good working relationship with public, subordinates and supervisors.  Ability to maintain self-control and composure and set a professional example for the staff and participants. 
• Ability to understand, analyze and implement ideas and concepts.
• Skills in communications and providing exceptional patron service.
• Knowledge of administrative skills and operation of personal computer and appropriate software, including, but not limited to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required; skills in maintenance and usage of other traditional office equipment necessary.

Physical Classification:

• Light:  Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently or constantly to raise or lower objects from one level to another, transport an object, exert force upon an object so that it moves away from or toward the force, or otherwise move objects. If the use of controls requires exertion of force greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The physical activity of this position:

• Balancing.  Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.  The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Feeling.  Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering.  Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping.  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Hearing.  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling.  Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting.  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position.  This occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Pulling.  Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing.  Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching.  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive motion.  Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Standing.  Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping.  Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.  This occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking.  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.  Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Walking.  Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

The visual acuity requirements including color, depth perception, and field vision:

• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position:

• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.  Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from internal temperature fluctuations.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions.  Activities occur both inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to noise.  There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.