City and County of Denver Seeking Tennis Recreation Coordinator

The City and County of Denver – Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a dedicated Tennis Recreation Coordinator to oversee, coordinate, evaluate, and implement citywide operational standards for our Tennis program.

• Provides instruction to participants in organized recreational programs, classes and activities for Tennis.
• Identifies community and customer needs and interests, assesses program responsiveness to these interests and initiates new programming elements and enterprises, including partnerships with other community based organizations.
• Recruits and guides the work of instructors and volunteers to achieve quality programming delivery.
• Performs program pre-planning duties for assigned programs, classes and activities to include written projections of costs and fees. Analyzes and makes reports of post-program budgetary outcomes.
• Administers and reviews program participant evaluation instruments for assigned programs; analyzes and uses findings to increase program and instructional effectiveness.
• Organizes, recruits sponsors, determines schedules for and administers the logistics of team league sports competition and team and individual sports tournaments.
• Publicizes recreation programs and other offerings by creating, producing and distributing printed materials, contacting media and/or developing and maintaining Web content.
• Engages in outreach activities to secure community acceptance and increased participation in recreation facility use and programming.
• Originates, organizes and administers the logistics of special cultural events.
• By position, organizes and/or directly participates in staffing a recreation center customer service counter.
• By position, records data in budgetary and accounting records, collects revenues and makes cash deposits.
• By position, organizes and/or directly participates in maintaining a facility and/or providing program administrative support.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

About You

The top candidate will be self motivated, efficient and flexible, posses exceptional interpersonal, problem solving and organizational skills.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Three (3) years of work experience instructing or monitoring an organized recreation program in Tennis.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in recreation, sports management, elementary or secondary education, behavior management (psychology, sociology) or a directly related field.
• Experience instructing, organizing, coordinating and growing tennis programs for both youth and adults.
• Currently possess or able to attain a certification through Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) or United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA)
• Experience working with a recreation point of sale software system.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite is desired (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

Applications will be accepted for one week beginning November 1. Click here to review the full description, including salary range and benefits, and to apply,