Gate Attendant (Lakefront) - 2026

City of Evanston, IL • Evanston, IL

51d • $14 • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for the supervision of swimming beach entrances and checking for valid admission passes/tickets.

Requirements

• Must be 16 years of age or older
• Available to work from May 23 - September 7, 2026
• Pass both the Criminal and DCFS background checks
• Pass drug and alcohol screen
• Interview
• Up to 6 hours of staff training
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
• Ability to read staff manuals, memoranda, and attendance sheets.
• Ability to complete daily log sheets, accident reports, incident reports, jump reports, first-aid reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, and style.
• Ability to give verbal direction to subordinates, communicate effectively with co-workers, supervisors, citizens, and the public as well as other employers; speaking extemporaneously on a variety of subjects.
• Completed at least 1 year of high school
• Complete all preseason training
• Ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 20 pounds of force constantly in order to move objects
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with hands.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture.
• Tasting/Smelling: Distinguishing, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognizing particular flavors and/or odors, using tongue and/or nose.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps, embankments, and the like using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending body downward or forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to a rest on knee(s)
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg(s) and spine.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet
• Seeing: The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye. The important aspects of vision are: acuity-far: clarity of vision at 20 feet or more acuity-near: clarity of vision at 20 inches or less depth perception: ability to judge distance and space relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are field of vision- observing an area that can be seen up and in a given point accommodation- adjustment of the lens of the eyes to bring an object into a sharp focus, especially important when doing near-point work at varying distances from the eye color vision- ability to identify and distinguish colors
• Ability to lift, kneel, bend, stand for long periods of time, identify or distinguish colors, and work outdoors at night with limited lighting
• Ability to work outdoors in a variety of weather conditions such as rain, high temperatures, and humidity. Work environment includes beaches, recreation centers, multipurpose rooms, swimming pools, athletic fields, parks, playgrounds, and office space.
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions approximately 5% of the time and outside work 95% of the time with no effective protection from weather conditions or temperature changes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the supervision of the admittance guidelines for entrance to swimming beaches, boat launches, and/or dog beach.
• Collect physical or digital daily passes and check season passes at the beach entrances.
• Sell daily tickets via a Clover device or direct patrons on how to buy passes through Amilia.
• Know and enforce all rules and regulations pertaining to the admittance to the beach and general Evanston Lakefront.
• Responsible for care and maintenance of gate attendant equipment including electronic payment devices.
• Attend staff training sessions and staff meetings as scheduled by supervisors and program coordinator.
• Responsible for effective and appropriate communication to patrons.
• Maintains a clean and safe beach environment.
• You must have the ability to work May 23-August 31, 2026 including weekends and afternoon/evening shifts once school begins. If you have after school commitments in the fall, this must be communicated before the start of the season.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees