General Description

The Recreation Fitness Manager plays a key role by developing and leading high-quality fitness and wellness opportunities for the community. This position is responsible for the overall operation of fitness programs and facilities, supervision of staff, and delivery of services that promote health, wellness, and community engagement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Plan, implement, and evaluate a variety of fitness and wellness programs for youth, adults, and seniors.

2. Oversee daily operations of the fitness center including staffing, cleanliness, safety, and equipment maintenance. Ensure facilities are clean, safe, welcoming, and well-maintained. Recruit, train, supervise, schedule, and support part-time staff and instructors.

3. Maintain recreation software systems and mobile applications to ensure accurate program information and registration. Maintain accurate records, reports, and program data. Assist with membership engagement and retention strategies.

4. Plan, schedule, and evaluate group exercise offerings based on participation trends and community needs, monitor class participation, and adjust schedules to improve utilization and service quality. Ensure instructors maintain required certifications and risk-management standards.

5. Support & promote membership growth through expanding offerings & increasing participation. Ensure programs are accessible, inclusive, and aligned with community needs and interests.

6. Manage and update the department website with current and relevant content. Support front-line staff with fitness-related member questions and concerns.

7. Assist with budget development and monitor program revenues and expenditures.

8. Build partnerships with local organizations, schools, and health providers.

Fiscal Responsibilities

Annual budget total value: 2500

Funds, facilities & equipment total value: 5000

Supervisory Responsibilities

How many non-supervisory employees are directly supervised by this position? Varies

How many supervisors report to this position? 0

How many employees, in total, report to the other supervisors 0

What departments (if any) are supervised by this position? 0

• Responsibilities For Work Of Others: Supervises a SMALL GROUP (3-7) of employees, usually of LOWER CLASSIFICATIONS. Assigns and checks work; assists and instructs as required and performs same work as those supervised, or closely related work, a portion of the time. Content of the work supervised is of a non-technical nature, but presents numerous situations to which policies and precedents must be interpreted and applied.
• Responsibility For Funds, Equipment, Property, Etc.: OCCASIONALLY responsible for organization's property where carelessness, error, or misappropriation would result in MODERATE damage or MODERATE monetary loss to the organization. The total value for the above would range from $5,000 to $150,000.

Education And Experience

• Education: Four year college degree, or equivalent experience resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job, such as accounting, marketing, business administration, agriculture etc.

• Experience General: 5 years related experience and/or training.
• Experience Management: 3 years related management experience.

Work Skills

• Analytical Ability/ Problem Solving: MODERATELY REPETITIVE. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes.

• Planning: CONSIDERABLE RESPONSIBILITY with regard to GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the work operations of a group of employees, all performing BASICALLY THE SAME TYPE OF WORK.
• Decision Making: Performs work operations which permit FREQUENT opportunity for decision-making of MINOR IMPORTANCE and also FREQUENT opportunity for decision-making of MAJOR IMPORTANCE; the latter of which would affect the work operations of OTHER EMPLOYEES and/or CLIENTELE to a MODERATE DEGREE.
• Supervision Received: Under GENERAL SUPERVISION where standard practice enables the employee to PROCEED ALONE on routine work, referring all questionable cases to supervisor.
• Accuracy: Probable errors of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL scope would have a MODERATE effect on the operational efficiency of the organizational component concerned. Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation. Could cause further errors, losses, or embarrassment to the organization. The possibility for error is always present due to requirements of the job.
• Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with customers, clients, general public and other employees of the organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Ability to perform these mathematical skills using money and other forms of measurement.
• Critical Thinking Skills: Ability to utilize common sense understanding in order to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several known variables in situations of a routine nature.
• Mental Demand: MODERATE MENTAL DEMAND. Operations requiring ALMOST CONTINUOUS ATTENTION, but work is sufficiently repetitive that a HABIT CYCLE IS FORMED; operations REQUIRING INTERMITTENT DIRECTED THINKING to determine or select materials, equipment or operations where variable sequences may be selected by the employee.

Accountabilities

• Freedom To Act: DIRECTED. Freedom to complete duties as defined by wide-ranging policies and precedents with mid to upper-level managerial oversight.

• Annual Monetary Impact: SMALL: Job creates a monetary impact for the organization from $100K to $1MM.
• Impact Of Job On End Results: MODEST IMPACT. Job has some impact on the organization's end results, but still from an indirect level. Provides assistance and support services that facilitates decision making by others.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Required: First Aid/CPR required. Shall possess and maintain a valid Driver's License

Preferred: Personal training certification, fitness instructor certifications.

Contacts With Public and Employees

• Contacts With Employees: Contacts of considerable importance within the department or office, such as those required in coordination of effort, or frequent contacts with other departments or offices, generally in normal course of performing duties. Requires tact in discussing problems and presenting data and making recommendations, but responsibility for action and decision reverts to others.

• Contacts With Public: Regular contacts with patrons where the contacts are initiated by the employee. Involves both furnishing and obtaining information and, also, attempting to influence the decisions of those persons contacted. Contacts of considerable importance and of such nature, that failure to exercise proper judgment may result in important tangible or intangible losses to the organization.

Machines, Equipment & Computers

• Use Of Machines, Equipment And/Or Computers: Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, etc.)

Software Skills Required

Software Ability

• 10-Key: None
• Accounting: undefined
• Alphanumeric Data Entry: Basic
• Contact Management: None
• Database: None
• Enterprise Resource Planning: None
• Human Resources Systems: None
• Payroll Systems: None
• Presentation/PowerPoint: None
• Programming Languages: None
• Spreadsheet: Basic
• Word Processing/Typing: Basic

Work Environment

How much exposure to the following environmental conditions does this position require? Show the amount of time by checking the appropriate boxes below.

• Work near moving mechanical parts (spinning shafts, engines, lifts, etc.): Occasionally
• Work in high, precarious places (tall structures, bucket lifts, extension ladders, etc.): Never
• Fumes or airborne particles (painting, sanding, solvents, flying lint or dust particles, etc.): Never
• Toxic or caustic chemicals (including potential for chemical spills, etc.): Never
• Outdoor weather conditions (exposure to outdoor heat, cold or inclement weather): Occasionally
• Wet or humid conditions (not weather-related, such as greenhouse, carwash, etc.): Never
• Extreme cold (not weather-related, such as freezer, cold storage, etc.): Never
• Extreme heat (not weather-related, such as furnace, kitchen, ovens, etc. where temperature is regularly above 100 degrees F): Never
• Risk of electrical shock (live electrical wires, equipment that retains power after shutoff): Never
• Work with explosives (TNT, dynamite, nitroglycerine, or other related explosives): Never
• Risk of radiation (x-ray equipment, nuclear radiation, electromagnetic radiation, etc.): Never
• Vibration (jackhammer, soil compactor, equipment that creates high vibration, etc.): Never
• Indicate the level of noise that is typical for the work environment for this position by checking the appropriate box below.: Moderate (business office with computers/printers, light traffic, etc.)
• Working Conditions: Somewhat disagreeable working conditions. Exposed to any number of elements noted in Degree 2, with one or two elements present continuously. May involve some travel and/or work is at times, in the evening or during the night hours.

Physical Demands

Physical Activities

• Stand: Frequently
• Walk: Frequently
• Sit: Occasionally
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel: Occasionally
• Reach with hands and arms: Occasionally
• Climb or balance: Occasionally
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl: Occasionally
• Talk or hear: Frequently
• Taste or smell: Never

Weight Lifted

• Up to 10 pounds: Frequently
• Up to 25 pounds: Frequently
• Up to 50 pounds: Occasionally
• Up to 100 pounds: Occasionally
• More than 100 pounds: Never

Vision requirements

• Close vision (use of a computer, equipment, or any other work duties that require clear vision within two feet or less).
• Distance vision (driving vehicles or equipment; work duties such as surveying that requires clear vision at twenty feet or more).
• Ability to adjust focus (work duties that require the ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus at various distances or focal lengths).
• Physical Demand: MODERATE DIVERSITY, MODERATELY PHYSICAL: Work activities which allow for a MODERATE AMOUNT OF DIVERSITY in the performance of tasks which requires SOMEWHAT DIVERSIFIED PHYSICAL DEMANDS of the employee.