Aquatics & Safety Manager

Associated Students • Long Beach, CA

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About The Position

The Aquatics & Safety Manager assists in developing and administrating a comprehensive aquatics and safety program serving a diverse campus community. The incumbent leads a team of qualified staff in several programmatic areas that help participants in developing physical, mental, social, and emotional wellness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Recreation, Physical Education, Sports Management, or related field, Master’s preferred.
• Four years of experience in the aquatic recreation field. At least two of the four years should be at the supervisory level.
• MUST CURRENTLY POSSESS A WATER SAFETY INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION AND AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: AMERICAN RED CROSS CPR, FIRST AID AND AED CERTIFICATION, OR LIFEGUARD CERTIFICATION, AS WELL AS A CPO CERTIFICATE.
• Thorough knowledge of modern aquatic methods, practices, and trends.
• The ability to identify and apply these methods, practices, and trends in a consistently evolving work environment.
• General working knowledge of the program, activities and services, or ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge as a condition of continued employment.
• General working knowledge of the organization of CSULB.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as funding policies, form instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before customers, employees, and visitors to the office.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Work requires frontline contacts with a variety of campus and community individuals requiring active problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• Appointment to this position is contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check based on reportable last actions.
• The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s preferred.
• Experience in the Recreational Sports field preferred.
• A Master’s Degree in physical education, recreation or a closely related field may be accepted as an equivalent to two years of experience.
• IFA, AFAA OR RELEVANT AQUATIC FITNESS CERTIFICATION OR TRAINING PREFERRED.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and management for a comprehensive aquatics program. Is responsible for the development, organization, administration, and supervision of the program, including facility scheduling, coordination of daily operations, staffing, promotion and evaluation of new and existing programs.
• Implement Aquatic and Safety Education instructor training programs that emphasize instructor development, quality programs and customer satisfaction. Assist with the hiring, training and evaluation of student employees for instructing Safety Education classes. Implement assessment tools and evaluation processes of current and new Safety Education programs and services.
• Oversee the facilitation of staff emergency preparedness drills.
• Assist with monthly training programs that will be presented to SRWC student staff.
• Develop and implement full-time staff training programs based on a pro-active risk management principle.
• Oversee accident reports and maintain semester log sheets. Analyze the data to help reduce injuries at the SRWC.
• Maintain staff certification records for SRWC and communicate with program supervisors about deficiencies.
• Coordinates pool maintenance tasks with the Facility Services Technician including, but not limited to chemical feeders, pool vacuums, wet/dry vacuums, pool filters and other equipment related to pool maintenance.
• Coordinates and orients members with or without physical, social, or developmental barriers to resources that will enhance their recreational integration and participation.
• Develops traditional and nontraditional aquatics events within the program.
• Provides daily supervision of adjacent beach volleyball court and assists other department programs in programming the space effectively.
• Assists students with the development of a variety of programs that promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Studies and analyzes current trends in aquatics programming, as well as safely related best practices. Makes recommendations based on research to assist in the development of short- and long-range goals.
• Creates, updates and maintains standard operating procedures, employment training manuals, safety rules, and standards and guidelines for program areas. Collaborates with ASI staff to organize and maintain a detailed risk management and emergency response program.
• Assists the Director in developing budgets and financial projections and monitors monthly financial statements for the Aquatics program. Initiates cost-containment measures or revenue generation strategies to ensure that program meets or exceeds financial expectations.
• Supports student assistants, lifeguards, aquatics instructors, and other department programs with scheduling events, including games, class times and locations.
• Maintains statistics on the amount of participation within program.
• Oversee the day-to-day cash handling operation of the aquatics program. Ensures that proper cash handling policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Utilizing ASI’s student development philosophy, recruits, trains and mentors student assistants.
• Maintains inventory of all program equipment. Tracks wear and tear of equipment and makes recommendations for repair and replacement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager