KidSport Swim Instructor; TEMP

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Along with your application, please include a cover letter stating if you are applying for the instructor, lead instructor or both positions. Describe your swim experience and any experience you have working with or teaching children ages 4-11 years.

About Kid Sport Summer Camps:

Kid Sport Summer Camps are for children ages 4-11. Kid Sport Inclusive and Kid Sport Adaptive campers will have time daily in the pool for instructional swim and water safety lessons . View our Kid Sport Summer Camps Website to read more about our programs .

Responsibilities Include:

• Plan daily lessons including modifications for a variety of abilities from non-swimmers to swimmers, ages 4-11. Kid Sport Swim resource book provided to help with planning.
• Monitor, demonstrate, and instruct children on water comfort and safety.
• For children that are ready demonstrate and instruct proper techniques and tactics to improve their strokes and overall swimming ability.
• Help enforce pool policies, rules and regulations.
• Prepare and put away equipment daily.
• Must be available for 9 weeks (June 15-August 14), Monday through Friday, from approximately 8am-4pm, with a lunch break from 12-1pm. No camp Thursday, July 2nd or Friday, July 3rd.
• Available for our paid camp orientation week, June 8-12, 2026.

Location:Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. You will need to have transportation to this location.

Instructor and Lead: Previous swim instructor experience and/or competitive swim experience

Instructor:

• Experience working with children

Instructor and Lead:

• Experience instructing children with swim lessons for 2 or more years
• Experience planning aquatic lessons for children with varying abilities in a group setting

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes .

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process maybegin as early as the eighth day after posting.

This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.