Project Safe Swim Instructor

Job Description
How you Will Power our Purpose (Job Summary)
Join our Project Safe Swim team as an instructor and be a key player in delivering essential safety, aquatics, and fitness education to pre-k, kinder, and first graders in collaboration with the Greater Austin YMCA and Colin's Hope. This multifaceted curriculum includes both swim and dry-land lessons, empowering children and caregivers with life-saving knowledge about water safety.Your commitment is critical in educating kids and caregivers about essential water safety practices.
As a Project Safe Swim Instructor, your hours will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, with occasional Friday shifts. Don't miss the opportunity to shape the water safety skills and confidence of our future champions. Join the Project SAFE team today!
How You Will Make an Impact (Essential Functions)

• Protect the health, safety, and welfare of all persons in the pool area.
• Follow personal attire requirements, including wearing appropriate swim attire.
• Know, understand, obey, and enforce all rules and policies of the YMCA equally.
• Teach Project SAFE classes as assigned by the program director.
• Know and follow the YMCA of Austin's Human Resources Guidelines, Code of Ethics, payroll procedures (including completing timesheets), and established emergency procedures.
• Arrive on deck at least 15 minutes prior to class and be ready to start class at the scheduled time.
• Travel between YMCA sites, with their own transportation.
• Secure your own substitute if you cannot make a scheduled class, and provide lesson plans for substitutes.
• Know and abide by YMCA Aquatic Program levels, objectives, and philosophy.
• Know lesson plans; keep records and reports on classes, including completing an evaluation of participants, class rosters, attendance tracking, and registration procedures.
• Understand and carry out YMCA Progressive Swimming Program Objectives, specifically the Safety Around Water Curriculum for Project SAFE.
• Convey information on aquatics programs and schedules and as appropriate, refers members and participants to other programs.
• Attend all required meetings and/or trainings.
• Never turn your back or leave the class or pool area while teaching unless another certified instructor can take over. If no others are available, you must remove the swimmers from the pool.
• Instruct class participants to take a soap shower before entering the pool.
• Maintain cleanliness of the area; remove items and equipment when finished or those that need attention all needed repairs to your supervisor.
• Follow pool lockup procedures if your class is not followed by another activity. If your class is followed by another group, remain on duty until you are relieved.
• Render first aid as needed and complete incident/accident report form for every injury/altercation on the premises.
• Actively and enthusiastically support the Branch and Association goals and directions through effective completion of tasks and verbal display to peers, staff, members, and guests.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

What You Bring to the Community Enterprise

• 18 years of age
• Intermediate aquatic skills, including knowledge of swim strokes and lifeguard responsibilities.
• 1-2 years of previous Swim Instructor experience.
• Current First Aid, CPR/AED, and Emergency Oxygen certifications.
• YMCA Swim Lesson Instructor or American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certifications are preferred.
• You quickly learn from failure and value feedback in an effort to continuously improve.
• You are a team player with a positive, service-oriented attitude, and you can work well with others.
• You listen for understanding and meaning. You speak and write effectively.
• You build good customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• You leverage people's differences as strengths.
• You learn quickly through new experiences. You continue to learn from success and failure.
• You easily take on new opportunities and challenges with a sense of urgency and a solutions-oriented mindset.

Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, talk and occasionally lift and/or move items including equipment and children. Must be able to remain alert, sit or stand for extended periods of time, hear noises and distinguish distress signals, scan all areas of the pool with clear vision, perform all physical tasks related to instructing and observing participants in proper stroke techniques, communicate verbally, including projecting voice across distance in normal and loud situations. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
About Us
The Greater Austin YMCA is a nonprofit community enterprise with a vision to cultivate thriving communities across Central Texas where every person benefits from an empowered and well-educated childhood, equitable access to opportunities, resulting in an elevated quality of life and the promise of a sustainable future. Founded in 1953 and anchored in three Central Texas counties, the Y has served close to 500,000 people and provided more than $30M in financial assistance and program subsidies over the past 10 years. We operate 8 community centers and Camp Moody along with 6 early childhood education centers, 60 afterschool programs on school campuses in four districts, and 20 summer camps, with 1500 staff team members, 1000 volunteers, and a $47M annual operating budget.
Additional Information:
The organization has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.
The Greater Austin YMCA provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Greater Austin YMCA complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which we have employees. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
We Take Care of Our People

• Free Nationwide Gym Membership for your household
• Retirement Planning Options
• Learning and development workshops and trainings
• Career advancement opportunities
• Referral Bonus Opportunities
• Cell Phone Plan discounts for AT T and T-Mobile/Sprint users
• Staff Discounts on Programs Services
• Flexible schedules and much more!