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Recreation Specialist (Part-Time, Temporary)

Salary

$18.20 - $22.12 Hourly

Location

91942, CA

Job Type

Temporary Part-Time

Job Number

25-13

Department

Community Services

Opening Date

04/07/2025

Closing Date

5/7/2025 5:30 PM Pacific

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+ Benefits

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Position Summary

Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class. Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

To plan, organize, coordinate, and instruct or conduct a specialized program, activities or classes such as adult programs sports and athletics, or other recreational activities; to provide on-site supervision for program implementation; and to maintain a variety of records and reports.

Employee may be assigned to work in one or more of the following areas:

+ Sports: Site Supervisor

+ Facilities: Park rentals

Key Responsibilities

The following duties are typical for this classification. Incumbents may not perform all of the listed duties and/or may be required to perform additional or different duties from those set forth below to address business needs and changing business practices.

+ Plan, organize, coordinate, and instruct or conduct a specialized recreation programs, activity or class such as adult program, sports and athletics, safe routes to school or other recreational activities.

+ Promote assigned recreation program, activity or class; prepare program event and facility marketing material including news releases, flyers, schedules of events, pamphlets and brochures.

+ Observe necessary precautions to ensure the safety of program or class participants.

+ Monitor and enforce facility permits including indoor venues, parks and sports fields; inspect assigned facilities for needed maintenance; clean facilities as needed.

+ Supervise and monitor the behavior of program or class participants; enforce applicable rules and regulations; provide appropriate disciplinary measures as needed.

+ Maintain records and develop reports concerning new or ongoing programs or classes and program and class effectiveness.

+ Monitor program or class performance; recommend and implement modifications to systems and procedures.

+ Plan, implement, schedule, and evaluate special events and activities relating to the program effort to which assigned.

+ Evaluate assigned programs or class for needed equipment or supplies; recommend the purchase of necessary equipment and supplies; issue supplies and equipment to participants.

+ Perform related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Education/Training:

Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade supplemented by specialized training in area of special events, recreation, leisure studies or a related field.

Experience:

Three years of increasingly responsible experience in a specialized recreation program area.

License or Certificate:

Possession of a Standard First Aid Certificate.

Possession of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (Infant, Child & Adult).

Examination Process

Interested applicants must submit an online application and supplemental questionnaire by the application deadline of 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Candidates whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the City will be invited to participate in the examination process for this position. The examination process may consist of any or all of the following components: appraisal interview and practical skills assessment. Submission of an application does not guarantee participation in the testing and interview process. Only those candidates whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the City will be invited to participate in the interview process.

NOTE: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment medical evaluation, and background investigation.

As a general rule, temporary part-time employees do not earn any fringe benefits with the City of La Mesa. However, they are covered under workers' compensation and Social Security inlcuding Medicare and are eligiblie for 40 hours of sick leave after 90 days of employment and 30 days of work.

01

Each applicant must complete this supplemental questionnaire as part of the application screening and selection process. The information you provide will be reviewed and used to determine your eligibility to continue in the selection process. Resumes in lieu of this questionnaire will not be accepted. Please be as descriptive as possible in your responses. Incomplete responses, false statements, omissions, or partial information may result in disqualification from the selection process. Do you agree to answer each supplemental question truthfully and that your responses can be verified from information included within the application?

+ Yes

+ No

02

Are you currently or have you ever been a member of CalPERS (California Public Employees' Retirement System)?

+ Yes

+ No

03

Have you graduated from high school or passed a General Education Development (GED) test?

+ Yes

+ No

04

Do you understand that this position is part-time, varied hours, and will not become a full-time position?

+ Yes

+ No

05

Are you willing and able to: (Check all that apply)

+ Work weekdays?

+ Work afternoons?

+ Work evenings?

+ Work weekends and/or holidays?

06

Do you possess a current Standard First Aid Certificate? (Please attach a copy to your application)

+ Yes

+ No

07

Do you possess a current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (Infant, Child & Adult)? (Please attach a copy to your application)

+ Yes

+ No

08

I have at least three (3) years of responsible experience working in a recreation program such as: (Check as many as applicable)

+ Physical Education/Recreation

+ Outdoor/Environmental Education

+ Hospitality/Tourism

+ Public Administration

+ Special Events

+ I do not have 3 years of experience in a recreation program

09

Based on the response provided in Question #8, describe your experience in each of the areas you marked above. Include name of employer(s) and dates of employment. If no experience in any of these areas, please write N/A. Note: Entering "See Resume/Application" does not qualify as an acceptable response.

10

Please indicate the level of experience you have using a reservation/registration program (i.e. Activenet, RecTrac, etc.)

+ Advanced (system administrator, create new facilities/resources, make changes to system, train staff)

+ Intermediate (run reports, enter data for new classes each session)

+ Beginner (enter customer registrations/reservations)

+ No experience

11

Please list your level of expertise using Microsoft Word in a work environment.

+ Advanced (watermarks, mail merge, headers/footers)

+ Intermediate (tables, fonts, bullets, margins, shading)

+ Beginner (typing basic memos and correspondence)

+ No Experience

12

Please list your level of expertise using Microsoft Excel in a work environment

+ Advanced (filters, headers/footers, graphs, linking formulas)

+ Intermediate (basic formulas, color-coding, sort)

+ Beginner (basic data entry)

+ No Experience

13

Pursuant to California Public Resources Code 5164, you must complete the following to be considered for this position. You must indicate if you have ever been convicted of any of the following crimes or of an attempt to commit any of the following crimes:

+ Sexual assault or assault with intent to commit mayhem.

+ Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under age 18.

+ Rape.

+ Rape of a spouse.

+ Willful harm or injury to a child.

+ Corporal punishment or injury to a child.

+ Willful infliction of corporal injury to a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, or mother or father of your child.

+ Any sexual crime or offense.

+ Kidnapping.

+ Sexual battery.

+ Aiding, abetting or soliciting the rape, rape of a spouse, or forcible acts of sexual penetration.

+ Enticement of an unmarried minor female for purposes of prostitution.

+ Inducing sexual intercourse with another when the other's consent is procured by false pretenses with the intent to create fear.

+ Pimping of a minor.

+ Pandering of a minor.

+ Procurement of a child under age 16 for lewd or lascivious acts.

+ Abduction of a person under age 18 for purposes of prostitution.

+ Aggravated sexual assault of a child.

+ Incest.

+ Sodomy.

+ Lewd or lascivious acts or the solicitation of the same.

+ Oral copulation.

+ Continuous sexual abuse of a child.

+ Forcible acts of sexual penetration or the solicitation of the same.

+ Selling, distributing, printing, or exhibiting of child pornography.

+ Sexual exploitation of a child.

+ Employment or use of a minor to perform prohibited acts.

+ Advertising child pornography.

+ Possession of child pornography.

+ Annoying or molesting a child under age 18.

+ Solicitation of rape by force or violence, sodomy by force or violence, or oral copulation by force or violence.

+ Indecent exposure.

+ Procuring, counseling, or assisting any person to commit indecent exposure.

+ Contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

+ Sending harmful material to a minor with the intent to seduce said minor.

+ Armed robbery.

+ Armed carjacking.

+ Assault or attempted murder of a public official.

+ False imprisonment.

+ Assault.

+ Battery.

+ Murder.

+ Mayhem.

+ Any crime that requires you to register as a sex offender in the State of California.

+ None of the above.

14

APPLICANT'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT - NOTIFICATION VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL (E-MAIL): The City of La Mesa Human Resources Division uses e-mail to notify our applicants of important information relating to the status and processing of your application. Therefore, as an applicant, you are hereby advised of the following: 1. Ensure that the e-mail address and contact information you provide is current, secure, and readily accessible to you. Do not share e-mail addresses. Spam or other filters should be adjusted to accept our e-mails. We will not be responsible in any way if you do not receive our e-mail notifications, i.e., for the non-delivery of e-mail or if you fail to check your e-mail inbox on a timely basis, etc. 2. Carefully read any notices that we send in a timely manner. Follow further instructions, if any. We recommend that you print and keep a hard copy of our notices for your records. I acknowledge that I have read, understand, and agree to the above.

+ Yes

+ No

Required Question

Employer

City of La Mesa

Address

8130 Allison Avenue La Mesa, California, 91942

Phone

619-667-1175

Website

http://www.cityoflamesa.us

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