Learn to Skate Instructor (Ice)

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS PARKS AND RECREATION SERVICE AREA POSITION DESCRIPTION

(NON-EXEMPT)

Position Title: Learn-to-Skate Instructor

Position Characteristics: Non-seasonal, part-time, no benefits. 

Weekdays, evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays.

Department: Programs – Ice Arena

Reporting Relationships:

Position Reports To: Skating Coordinator

Positions Directly Supervised: None

Position Purpose:

Responsible for providing skating instruction for group lessons. Enforce established procedures and safety regulations on the ice arena and throughout the facility. Maintain positive relations with customers, students, parents, and community members in all interactions.   

Nature and Scope:

This position requires the ability to demonstrate good figure skating technique and a basic understanding of related rules, regulations, and figure skating organizations. Good human relation and communication skills and the ability to effectively teach and instruct skaters of differing skill levels are vital to the successful execution of this position. 

Essential Functions and Basic Duties:

1. Assume responsibility for the effective performance of all related skating instructor functions.
2. Provide instruction for arena sponsored group lessons as required.
3. Administer basic skills tests and record student progress.
4. Promote and support all Center activities.
5. Enforce safety regulations and supervise arena activities. Assume responsibility for protecting the arena, patrons, and the staff.
6. Enforce freestyle rules in accordance with policies set forth by management.
7. Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining positive relations with customers
8. Assist and support students in a productive manner. 
9. Maintain a positive rapport with parents.
10. Resolve questions and problems quickly and courteously.
11. Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective working relations with personnel and management. 
12. Assist staff as needed.
13. Keep management informed of area activities and of any significant concerns.
14. Attend meetings as required.
15. Assume responsibility for other duties as assigned.
16. Keep work area clean and well maintained. 

Performance Measurements:

1. Skating instruction is performed effectively in accordance with established standards.
2. Skaters progress through basic skill levels.
3. Safety rules and regulations are enforced appropriately.
4. Positive relations exist with students, parents, and community members.
5. Area personnel are assisted as necessary and management is well informed.
6. The arena skating program and activities are positively promoted and supported. 

Qualifications:

Training/Education/Certification:

• Must have a competitive skating background and/or involvement in USFSA or ISIA skating structure.
• Approved Criminal Background Investigation check if over 18 years of age.
• First Aid and CPR Certified.

Required Knowledge:

• Solid understanding of figure skating techniques, rules, and organizations.

Experience Required:

• Must be at least 14 years or older.

Skills/Abilities:

• Strong figure skating technique.
• Effective teaching skills.
• Positive human relations and communications skills.

Physical Activities and Requirements of this Position:

Balancing: May involve walking, standing, crouching on narrow, slippery or moving surfaces.

Stooping: Bending downward and forward at the waist. Requires full use of lower extremities and back muscles.

Kneeling: Resting on knee or knees.

Crouching: Bending downward and forward at the leg and spine.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing: For extended time periods.

Walking: Especially for long distances.

Lifting: Occurs frequently and requires substantial use of upper body and back muscles.

Grasping: Using fingers and palm on an object.

Feeling: Perceiving sensual characteristics of objects including size, shape, texture, temperature, etc., through touch.

Talking: Especially when one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing: Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.

Seeing: Average, ordinary, vision acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery. 

Physical Strength: Medium work, exerts up to 60 lbs. occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. frequently.

Other: Need to know how to ice skate in a professional manner – see Training/Education/Certification above.

Other: Standing long hours, skating, and lifting.

Working Conditions:

• Worker subject to changing inside temperatures (such as freezers).
• Must work in extreme cold for more than an hour. Temperatures below 32 degrees.
• Must work in very noisy environments that may require workers to shout to communicate.
• Frequent local travel.

Mental Activities and Requirements of this Position:

General Education-Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions and to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables. Education-Mathematics Ability: Ability to perform very basic math skills including adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing two digit numbers; to perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins as part of a dollar; to perform operations with units such as inch, foot, and yard; ounce and pound (or their metric counterparts).

General Education-Language Ability: Ability to recognize the meaning of 2,500 (2 and 3 syllable) words: to read (by sight or Braille) at a very slow rate; to compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers, ability to print and communicate in simple sentences.

Intent and Function of Job Descriptions:

• Job descriptions assist organizations in ensuring that the hiring process is fairly administered and that qualified employees are selected. They are also essential to an effective appraisal system and related promotion, transfer, layoff, and terminations decisions. Well-constructed job descriptions are an integral part of any effective compensation system. 
• All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and basic duties have been included. Peripheral tasks, only incidentally related to each position, have been excluded. Requirements, skills, and abilities included have been determines to be the minimal standards required to successfully perform the positions. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.
• In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization.
• Job descriptions are not intended to and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason no prohibited by law.