Parks & Receation Superintendent Senior Citizen Center

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Supervises staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff are trained; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Plans, develops, and markets new and existing recreation programs and/or special events; evaluates programs and events for future improvements and/or modifications.
• Promotes programs, events, and offerings to the public.
• Hires, trains, and supervises staff and volunteers, fostering a supportive work environment.
• Serves as a liaison with local government, social service agencies, and organizations to advocate for older adults and promoted services.
• Ensures all operations meet local, state, and federal regulations, particularly for nutrition programs and safety standards.
• Develops, implements, and administers operating manuals; monitors operational compliance and licensing with the Department of Human Services.
• Prepares and administers the center budget which may include preparing costs estimates for budget recommendations, submitting justifications for budget items, monitoring, and controlling program expenditures.
• Prepares a variety of operational records and reports. Leads staff in excellent customer service and resolves patron complaints.
• Assists with programming as needed.
• Performs other work as required.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Gerontology, Human Services, or a related feld.
• Five (5) years of experience working with older adults or individuals with disabilities.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

• CPR Certification (Must be obtained withon one (1) month of hire.).
• Possession of a valid driver's license.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of:

• Managerial principles.
• Budgeting principles.
• Recordkeeping practices and principles.
• Customer service principles.
• Computers and related software applications.
• Applicable regulatory compliance.

• Monitoring and evaluating employees.
• Prioritizing and assigning work.
• Leadership and organization.
• Planning, developing, supervising, and managing programs and/or events.
• Providing customer service.
• Developing, administering, and monitoring budgets.
• Preparing and maintaining operational records and reports.
• Using a computer and related software applications.
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisors, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convery information and to give and receive work direction.

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something steady to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Visual ability 2: sufficient to include color, depth perception, and field vision.
• Visual ability 3: sufficient to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
• Visual ability 4: sufficient to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, both day and night.
• Visual ability 5: sufficient to perform an activity such as: visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines; using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.