Recreation Attendant; Part-Time

Position: Recreation Attendant (Part-Time < 1,000 hours per year)
Starting Salary: $16.59/Hour

Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including morning, evening, weekends, and some holidays.

* This is a year-round position averaging 20 hours per week
* The Recreation Attendant will work at the Mansfield Activities Center (MAC) and will be responsible for all reception desk responsibilities including communicating effectively and courteously with all patrons of the facility during general operating hours, as well as during private reservation hours and at special events. Attendant will also assist full time staff in planning, developing, promoting, executing, and evaluating recreational programs and special events for all ages.

EXAMPLES OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED:

• Provide patrons with program and facility information.

• Perform basic office duties such as answering phones, making copies, faxing, filing, gathering data, and light cleaning.

• Process MAC card applications, program registrations and rental requests.

• Collect fees and paperwork for MAC cards, programs, and rentals.

• Issue and monitor equipment and supplies to patrons.

• Assist with recreation programs, classes, activities, and special events including set up, break down and monitoring.

• Enforce and maintain MAC policies and procedures as needed.

• Process reservations for Mansfield parks, sports facilities and the MAC.

• Assist on occasion with transporting Kids Zone participants in 15-passenger van, if 21 years of age or older.

• Assist full-time staff with planning, developing, promoting, executing and evaluating recreational programs and special events for all ages.

• Attend monthly staff meetings and other trainings as scheduled.

• Provide a high level of customer service to all patrons.

• Perform other assigned duties as required.

OTHER DUTIES:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contract a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

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• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Flexible, energetic, outgoing personality.

• Self-starter, punctual, attentive to detail, and ability to work well with others and individually.

• Willing to provide a high level of customer service to all patrons.

• Must have reliable transportation.

• Must be able to work a flexible schedule including morning, evening, and weekends and some holidays. This is a year-round position averaging 20 hours per week.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Windows applications.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.

• Valid Texas Operators License.

• Experience with cash handling procedures.

DESIRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• CPR certification preferred

• Bilingual in Spanish

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS:
1. The physical activity of this position

• Climbing. Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.

• Balancing. Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.

• Stooping. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.

• Kneeling. Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

• Crouching. Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.

• Crawling. Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.

• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

• Pushing. Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

• Pulling. Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

• Lifting. Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important…