Job Description
- To work with children all children up to eighteen years of age, teaching them the competitive aspects of swimming.
- To provide personal and social development for life skills.
- To assist the head swim coach in developing and improving the technical and physical swimming skills.
- To provide a fun and enjoyable environment.
- To assist the head swim coach in giving open and constructive feedback to the swimmers and their parents.
Job Tasks:
- Assist in leading swimmers through skill mastery and swim practices.
- Provide a safe environment for Swim Team participants to learn competitive swimming.
- Encourage and support swimmers to provide an enjoyable club experience.
- Assist in evaluating swimmers’ skills; provide skills needed to master strokes.
- Ensure fair practice and swim meet experience.
- Work with the head swim coach to supervise the entire swim meet, including warm-ups, practice dives, events, etc., ensuring the safety of the swimmers.
- Assist in setting the lineup of swimmers for each race at each meet as needed.
- Assist in the organization of swim meet volunteers.
- Conduct practices with energy and enthusiasm.
- Provide support and encouragement to participants.
- Keep attendance records of members and children participating in the Swim Team.
- Maintain a courteous, polite, and helpful relationship with all members and guests.
- Regularly check equipment for necessary repair or replacement.
- Provide appropriate customer service to members and participants.
- Communicate all club rules and ensures s/he is accessible and identifiable.
- Attend staff meetings and training as required.
- Fill in for head swim coach as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to maintain physical and mental fitness levels consistent with readiness to respond to
emergency situations. - Ability to act quickly, decisively, and calmly in an emergency situation.
- Ability to perform rescue actions and administer CPR and First Aid as needed.
- Basic computer skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing.
Qualifications:
- Current CPR/First Aid/AED certification or ability to acquire one.
- Must pass a background check.
- 1-3 years of club, high school, or college swim coaching experience.
- At least a high school diploma.
- Must have basic computer skills and the ability to learn new programs.
This is a non-smoking workplace. The work environment is mainly indoors. Work is performed in an aquatics center and office. The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. This individual is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, and hear.
- The individual is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use a hand to handle or feel, and reach with arms and hands. They must be able to talk, taste, smell, and see (both near and far). Occasionally they may be required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- Must be able to hear distress noises and hear and see distress signals in a noisy aquatic environment, including in the water and anywhere in the zone of responsibility.
- May require long periods of sitting or standing in a hot, humid, and noisy environment.
- Must be able to sit, stand, walk, grab, pull, and push objects in or out of the water, squat down, stoop, kneel, crouch, and jump.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
About The Ranch Country Club:
The rolling landscape with iconic views, upon which our beloved Ranch Country Club estate rests, has a long-winded and extensive history dating back to the 19th century. The land, homesteads, and overall appearance of The Ranch have changed alongside the passing of time and at the hands of the many owners who cared for it, but the tradition and roots where it was planted have stayed the same. From the original land grant given to the Marion family to the Ward Mansion and all the way to how the Club stands today, the Clubhouse holds strong with the integrity and passion of those who’ve passed through the threshold.At The Ranch Country Club, we take pride in the traditions and values that have remained since the early days of The Ranch and hope always to be a place that our Members can consider home.