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Senior Recreation Leader - Adaptive Recreation

Salary

$17.50 - $18.25 Hourly

Location

West Sacramento, CA

Job Type

Temp/Temp II

Job Number

2025-00066

Department

PARKS & RECREATION

Division

PARKS/RECREATION-RECREATION

Opening Date

07/02/2025

Closing Date

7/23/2025 12:00 AM Pacific

Bargaining Unit

TEMP

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Do you believe in the power of recreation to build confidence, connection, and joy? The City of West Sacramento’s Parks & Recreation Department is seeking a compassionate, dependable, and enthusiastic Senior Recreation Leader to support our SPARK Adaptive Recreation Program—a social, community-based program designed for individuals with developmental disabilities.

The SPARK program is all about Social Participation, Active Recreation, and Kindness. This is not a therapeutic program but a structured and inclusive opportunity for participants to engage in games, arts, fitness, and community outings in a supportive, supervised setting. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact while bringing energy and care to your role, this is the opportunity for you.

Position Summary:

The Senior Recreation Leader – SPARK Adaptive Recreation provides front-line support to participants, facilitates activities, and helps ensure a safe, respectful, and engaging program environment. Working under the guidance of Recreation Coordinators, this role assists in planning and delivering structured recreation activities and supervising participants in group settings with a staff-to-participant ratio of 1:8.

This position requires reliability, patience, leadership, and an ability to foster positive social experiences while supporting individual needs and abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Lead and supervise recreational activities including arts & crafts, games, light fitness, and community outings.

• • Support participants in social engagement, ensuring safety, respect, and inclusion at all times.

• • Assist with planning, set-up, and cleanup of program activities and spaces.

• • Model appropriate behavior and help manage group dynamics in a kind and respectful manner.

• • Communicate regularly with program supervisors about participant needs, incidents, and progress.

• • Maintain accurate attendance records, activity reports, and incident logs.

• • Help orient and guide volunteers or newer staff.

• • Ensure that program supplies are organized and available as needed.

• • Serve as a positive role model and help build a sense of community and belonging among participants.

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Experience working with individuals with developmental or physical disabilities or in adaptive recreation settings.

• Patience, empathy, and a passion for inclusion and community connection.

• Ability to lead small group activities and support participants with varying abilities.

• Teamwork and communication skills, with a proactive approach to solving problems.

• A friendly, flexible, and professional attitude in all situations.

An official City of West Sacramento application form must be filled out in its entirety. The NEOGOV on-line application is considered to be an official City application. It is the applicant's responsibility to explain their qualifications fully and clearly. Incomplete information on the application may be cause for disqualification. In addition, the applicant must submit a resume. Applications and resumes will be screened for qualifications. The most qualified applicants will be placed on an eligibility list. The top scoring candidates will be referred to the department for further consideration and the next step in the selection process.

DEFINITION: The Senior Recreation Leader plans, coordinates, implements and supervises departmental programs, projects and activities at various sites, including but not limited to: parks, school sites, recreational facilities and administrative offices.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED: Receives general direction from the Recreation Supervisor I/II or designee. No direct supervision of staff is exercised.

CLASS CHARACTERISTICS: This is a part time, extra help position in the Parks & Recreation Department. The Senior Recreation Leader is distinguished from the Recreation Leader by the performance of more complex and difficult tasks requiring greater independence and judgment in completing assigned programs, projects or activities.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

• Plans, coordinates, implements, promotes, evaluates and supervises a variety of department programs, projects and activities.

• Supervises assigned staff and volunteers.

• Provides instruction and in-service training for subordinate staff.

• Inspects assigned facilities and/or equipment and recommends any necessary repair, maintenance and/or supplies.

• Promotes and practices safety procedures in assigned programs.

• Completes written reports and records as required.

• Performs a variety of clerical/administrative work as necessitated by the assignment.

• Performs related duties as assigned.

Any combination of training and experience which would provide the required knowledge and skill. A typical way to obtain the required knowledge and skill would be:

Education: High school diploma or equivalent; a minimum of twenty (20) semester units of related college education preferred.

Experience: One (1) year of increasingly responsible related experience, including supervisory experience.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES: Possession of a valid California driver's license; and current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Multi-Media and/or Standard First Aid certificates prior to placement at worksite. Depending upon assignment, may be required to obtain a Class "B" California driver's license within thirty (30) days of employment.

An applicant who qualifies for veterans’ preference and successfully places on an eligibility list for initial entrance into employment with the city shall be advanced one rank on the final eligibility list. Where there are five (5) or less qualified applicants, no veterans’ preference shall apply and all applicants shall be placed on the certification list forwarded to the departments for hiring consideration. The exercise of veterans’ preference shall be exhausted upon appointment to a regular position from an eligibility list.

An official City of West Sacramento application form must be filled out, in its entirety. It is the applicant's responsibility to explain their qualifications fully and clearly. In addition, applicants must submit a resume and complete the required supplemental questionnaire (if applicable). Incomplete information on the application, resume and/or supplemental questionnaire may be cause for disqualification. Application packages will be reviewed and screened for qualifications. Additional screening criteria will be developed based on the supplemental questionnaire (if applicable).

Extra Help positions with the City of West Sacramento are designated Tier I or Tier II extra help employees. Those hired as Tier I extra help employees must work less than 1,000 hours in a fiscal year and are not eligible for any City provided benefits, other than those required by law.

Those hired as Tier II extra help employees are scheduled to work beyond 1,000 hours in a fiscal year, but not more than 1,500 hours. Tier II extra help employees receive pro-rated vacation, sick leave, and holiday benefits and are enrolled in the city's CalPERS retirement plan.

The City does not participate in full Social Security, but does participate in Medicare. Extra help positions are considered "at will" positions.

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Describe your experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities. What types of activities or support did you provide, and how did you help create an inclusive and enjoyable experience for all participants?

02

SPARK is a social (not therapeutic) adaptive recreation program. How would you foster social interaction and community among participants while maintaining a safe and respectful group environment?

03

Tell us about a time when you encountered a behavioral or group dynamic challenge during a program. What was the situation, how did you handle it, and what was the outcome?

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Employer

City of West Sacramento

Address

1110 West Capitol Ave 3rd Floor West Sacramento, California, 95691

Phone

(916) 617-4567

Website

http://www.cityofwestsacramento.org

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