Skate Instructor; Ice

Overview

Description

Cottonwood Heights Parks and Recreation Service Area Position Description (Non-Exempt).

Position Title:

Learn-to-Skate Instructor. Position Characteristics:
Non-seasonal, part-time, no benefits. Schedule includes Weekdays, evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays.

Department
:
Programs – Ice Arena

Reporting Relationships

Position

Reports To:

Skating Coordinator
Positions Directly Supervised: None

Responsible for providing skating instruction for group lessons. Enforce established procedures and safety regulations on the ice arena and throughout the facility. Maintain positive relations with customers, students, parents, and community members in all interactions.

This position requires the ability to demonstrate good figure skating technique and a basic understanding of related rules, regulations, and figure skating organizations. Good human relation and communication skills and the ability to effectively teach and instruct skaters of differing skill levels are vital to the successful execution of this position.

• Assume responsibility for the effective performance of all related skating instructor functions.
• Provide instruction for arena sponsored group lessons as required.
• Administer basic skills tests and record student progress.
• Promote and support all Center activities.
• Enforce safety regulations and supervise arena activities. Assume responsibility for protecting the arena, patrons, and the staff.
• Enforce freestyle rules in accordance with policies set forth by management.
• Establish and maintain positive relations with customers.
• Assist and support students in a productive manner.
• Maintain a positive rapport with parents.
• Resolve questions and problems quickly and courteously.
• Establish and maintain effective working relations with personnel and management.
• Assist staff as needed.
• Keep management informed of area activities and any significant concerns.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Assume responsibility for other duties as assigned.
• Keep work area clean and well maintained.

• Skating instruction is performed effectively in accordance with established standards.
• Skaters progress through basic skill levels.
• Safety rules and regulations are enforced appropriately.
• Positive relations exist with students, parents, and community members.
• Area personnel are assisted as necessary and management is well informed.
• The arena skating program and activities are positively promoted and supported.

Training/

Education/Certification:

• Must have a competitive skating background and/or involvement in USFSA or ISIA skating structure.
• Approved Criminal Background Investigation check if over 18 years of age.
• First Aid and CPR Certified.

Required Knowledge

• Solid understanding of figure skating techniques, rules, and organizations.

Experience Required

• Must be at least 14 years or older.

Skills/Abilities

• Strong figure skating technique.
• Effective teaching skills.
• Positive human relations and communications skills.

Balancing, standing, walking, bending, reaching, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing. Physical strength:
Medium work, exerts up to 60 lbs occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs frequently. Other:
Must know how to ice skate professionally. Standing long hours, skating, and lifting.

• Worker subject to changing inside temperatures (such as freezers).
• Must work in extreme cold for more than an hour (temperatures below 32 degrees).
• Must work in very noisy environments that may require shouting to communicate.
• Frequent local travel.

General Education-Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions and to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables. Education-Mathematics Ability:
Ability to perform basic math skills including adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing two-digit numbers; to perform basic arithmetic with coins and units (in, ft, yd, oz, lb). General Education-Language Ability:
Ability to recognize the meaning of words, read simple sentences, and communicate in simple sentences.

• Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring fair hiring practices and support effective appraisals, promotions, transfers, layoffs, and terminations decisions. They are an integral part of compensation systems.
• All descriptions have been reviewed to include essential functions and basic duties. Peripheral tasks have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities are the minimal standards required to perform the positions. Duties may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.
• In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made that pose health or safety risks or undue hardships to the organization.
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