PT Recreation Aide (4:00pm-9:00pm)
About The Position
The City of Murphy Recreation Department is seeking a Part-Time Recreation Aide to facilitate recreational activities for City residents. This role involves providing customer service at the Murphy Community Center and Murphy Activity Center, including registering citizens for classes, camps, and activities, as well as memberships, reservations, and rentals. The position also includes assisting with opening and closing duties, maintaining facilities, providing administrative services, and interacting with City employees and residents. The City of Murphy aims to redefine the local government experience through its core values: Respectful, Professional, Trustworthy, and Friendly.
Requirements
- A High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) or ability to obtain a High School Diploma or GED within 6 months of hire.
- Valid State of Texas class C driver’s license.
Nice To Haves
- CPR/First Aid Training
- Associate’s degree in Parks and Recreation, Physical Education or related field or one (1) year work experience in recreation or related field.
- Experience with recreation software.
Responsibilities
- Provides customer service by greeting members, answering and directing phone calls, providing facility information, distributing equipment, supervising member activities, and answering member questions and concerns.
- Registers citizens for memberships, classes, camps and activities by operating RecTrac software, entering data, taking payments, filing records and providing members with pertinent information.
- Processes reservations for residents and non-residents for indoor and outdoor recreation facilities by operating RecTrac software, ensuring necessary paperwork is completed and filed, entering information into computer system and accepting any necessary payments.
- Oversees the setup and teardown of all indoor reservations as well as assists with all AV needs for each reservation.
- Assists with informing the community of recreational opportunities through advertising and promotions, marketing and promoting programs through the use of recreation publications, newsletters, flyers and other media.
- Prepares for opening of facilities by organizing front desk work area, turning on equipment, checking facilities for reservations and classes, responding to emails and voicemails, and unlocking entrances.
- Prepares for closing of facilities by notifying members of closing, cleaning up front desk work area, turning off equipment, checking facilities for the following day's reservations and classes, responding to outstanding emails and voicemails, and locking entrances.
- Maintains facilities, interior and exterior, by reporting complaints and problems, making calls for repair, and handling customer complaints where appropriate.
- Provides various administrative services by ensuring safety in all facilities, assisting with development of brochures, signs and other marketing tools, maintaining adequate levels of supplies and marketing tools, assisting with special events and providing clerical based services.
- Assists the Recreation Specialist II positions by engaging in daily and ongoing communication of anticipated facility schedules and notifying them of any reservations, external events or programming issues or concerns and making any necessary or recommended adjustments as necessary.
- Adheres to the charter, personnel, safety, and divisional policies and procedures of the City.
- Provides First Aid as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
