Recreation Specialist; Senior’s Planning & Performance Specialist),Grade 21 Job Silver Spring area,Maryland USA,Sports/Fitness/Wellness

Position: Recreation Specialist (Senior’s Planning & Performance Specialist), Grade 21

Overview

Please note:
The salary range above represents this position’s earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $70,556 - $98,856, based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Who We Are

Montgomery County Department of Recreation is a nationally recognized and award-winning agency with a mission to provide high quality, diverse, and accessible community-based programs, activities, and services that serve the recreation and leisure needs of the Montgomery County community. The department manages 39 facilities including recreation centers, senior centers, and indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities and provides thousands of programs such as out-of-school activities, aquatics, classes, youth and adult sports programs and leagues, senior programs, and therapeutic recreation.

Recreation is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. Recreation encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). Immigrants, women, LGBTQIA+, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.

Who We Are Looking For

The Department seeks a dynamic, experienced, and energetic Recreation Specialist to perform full-time work in support of Senior (55+) programming and telling our story. Work in this position includes ensuring our team’s performance measures are achieved through data collection and analysis, supporting our senior centers and/or facilities with innovative, state-of-the-art and culturally responsive trend-setting programs for adults 55 or better. Successful candidates will have knowledge, skills, and abilities for organizing, developing, planning, scheduling, promoting, contract oversight, attention to detail, and evaluating a full range of instructional classes, sports, fitness and wellness programs, lifetime leisure activities, as well as special events in diverse community settings.

Successful candidates will also demonstrate broad individual responsibility executing general facility oversight, cleanliness, care, and ground cleaning.

The Recreation Specialist will play a critical role in creating and maintaining a welcoming environment to all that promotes active participation and enhances the quality of life for our diverse senior community.

Recreation Specialists are responsible for the programs, activities, classes, events, and data collection that help our older residents thrive in our programs.

The Recreation Specialist will have the experience and demonstrate the abilities in:

Leading and Planning Programs and Events – Plan, develop, organize, establishing outcomes, managing budgets, and evaluate recreation programs, classes, large-scale events for the older adult population – making data driven decisions for future programs.

Community Engagement – By building positive working relationships and delivering culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable programs for the community.

Senior Meal Program Support & Oversight – Supporting and assisting with meal orders, reservation requests, meal distribution, accurate data collection, and food safety standards at multiple locations.

Staff, Volunteer, and Contract Oversight – Recruit, train, schedule, supervise, monitor, and evaluation seasonal employees, volunteers, and contractors. Ensure high quality service is delivered and payments are initiated and processed on time.

Administrative Operations – Handle registrations, scheduling, and program set-up using recreation software systems and tools.

Financial, Performance, and Compliance Management – Safeguard cash, PPI, inventory, County property, and data collection. Prepare reports, trackers, develop data analysis summaries for leadership team. Adhering to polices, protocols and best practices.

Marketing and Communication – Promoting and supporting the department, division, and team on county initiatives, programs and events. Serve as a liaison between colleagues, public relations, customer service, stakeholder’s, partners and community members.

Community Partnership – Establish, collaborate, and coordinate with organization boards, community groups, businesses, non-profits, etc. to…


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Recreation Specialist; Senior’s Planning & Performance Specialist), Grade 21