Sports & Fitness Specialist

Woodcraft Rangers•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$28 - $35•Hybrid

About The Position

Woodcraft Rangers is seeking a passionate Sports and Fitness Specialist to join their team. This role is crucial in helping staff provide high-quality sports and fitness programs at Woodcraft Rangers sites. The specialist will be responsible for developing sports and fitness curriculum and facilitating trainings to ensure staff are confident in implementing these programs. Collaboration across departments is key to improving curriculum and trainings, ultimately providing the best support for all Woodcraft Rangers sports and fitness programs. Woodcraft Rangers has a mission of guiding young people as they explore pathways to purposeful lives, offering TK-12 expanded learning programs and serving over 30,000 youth annually.

Requirements

AA Degree in Child Development or related field is preferred or minimum of one year of experience as a group leader working with children and 6 units in child development.
Enthusiastic to work well with youth development staff and/or youth.
Good oral and written communication.
Ability to travel to the various regions that have Woodcraft Rangers programs to support or deliver in person training. Regions would include San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, West Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, Southeast LA, Moreno Valley, and Downtown areas.
Computer literacy and willingness to learn.
Stable Internet Access
Valid LIVE Scan

Responsibilities

Identify, update, and develop curriculum material in support implementation of high-quality sports and fitness programing and staff development.
Research and develop curriculum material for winter sports to support implementation of high-quality sports at Camp Woodcraft.
Collaborate with sports and fitness club leaders to develop curriculum material in support of high-quality sports and fitness programing.
Collaborate with other content specialists to develop curriculum material that may be needed.
Identify or develop and facilitate/deliver training material in support of high-quality programming and staff development.
Evolve and facilitate/deliver existing trainings as a part of staff support including ongoing New Employee Welcome Series and additional follow-up training as needed.
Research best practices in youth development to inform development and ongoing curriculum and training evolution.
Lead any “training-of-trainers” academies and/or/trainings that may be needed.
Participate in staff development trainings as required, approximately 40 hours / year.
Work with Associate Director of Curriculum to set targets, manage projects, and evaluate progress and impact.
Attend organization, cross departmental, and department staff meetings that occur either virtually or in-person.
Collaborate with Learning Department and Program Department to identify organizational, program, and team needs.
Collaborate with Learning Department and Program Department to coordinate training logistics.
Collaborate with Program Department and Special Projects Department to help coordinate and support events for sports and fitness programs.
Development and implementation of program support tools and resources as needed.
Other related duties as assigned.