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Posted: 24-Jan-25
Location: Wheaton, Maryland
Type: Full-time
Salary: $68,501 - $95,200
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Internal Number: 2025- 00022
WHO WE ARE
Montgomery County Department of Recreation is a nationally recognized and award-winning agency with a mission to provide high-quality, diverse, and accessible community-based programs, activities, and services that serve the recreation and leisure needs of the Montgomery County community. The department manages 39 facilities including recreation centers, senior centers, and indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities and provides thousands of programs such as out-of-school activities, aquatics, classes, youth and adult sports programs and leagues, senior programs, and therapeutic recreation.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
The Department is seeking dynamic & experienced, full-time Recreation Specialists whose creativity and knowledge can be demonstrated in a wide range of services for the Youth Development team. The goal of the Youth Development team is to keep young people healthy, productive, and connected during out-of-school time through a full range of out-of-school time recreational, leisure, and youth development activities.
What You'll Be Doing
Recreation Specialists are responsible for programs that make a positive difference in the lives of youth!
- Out of School Time Program Oversight – You will develop, schedule, promote, implement, supervise and evaluate programs with a focus on positive youth development. Activities include (but are not limited to) after-school programs, special events, summer camps, workforce and professional development programs and activities, sports leagues and related learning opportunities for youth, school-aged children through late adolescence.
- Leading & Coaching Teams of Seasonal Staff - You will recruit, train, provide direction and guidance to, supervise, support timekeeping of and retain a diverse seasonal workforce. You will also maintain stability of seasonal employees by modeling desired behaviors through consistent and positive work ethic, and by advocating on behalf of the management team.
- Developing Creative & Engaging Programming for Youth, including Special Events - You will identify trends and prepare program plans in recreation and youth development based on data to meet community needs. This includes budgeting, collaborating with contractors, completing assessments and procuring/inventorying of program equipment and supplies.
- Building Supportive Relationships with Communities, Schools & Families – You will establish and maintain effective working relationships with program stakeholders, provide excellent customer service and demonstrate professional courtesy to those encountered through work
Recreation professionals are responsible for demonstrating effective and thorough communication skills, both orally and in writing; possess a consistent and positive work ethic; and have experience working cross-culturally and/or commitment to work towards improving one’s own cultural competence and the cultural competence of staff (i.e., valuing differences/ diversity, recognizing personal limitations in one’s expertise and having the desire to learn in these areas.)
Scheduling for this position will vary but requires the availability to work mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and non-traditional work hours to support program. It may require work that involves physical demands, occasionally working outdoors in varying weather and extreme temperatures; and the ability to occasionally attend meetings or perform work at locations outside the assigned facility.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: Two (2) years of progressively responsible recreational specialist work involving planning, organizing, supervising, and implementing an area-wide, countywide, or special interest recreation program.
- Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education, experience and training may be substituted.
