Recreation Manager

Salary : $115,752.00 - $141,481.60 Annually

Location : Duarte, CA

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Number : 202500141

Department : Parks and Recreation

Opening Date : 01 / 22 / 2025

Closing Date : 2 / 21 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Pacific

Position Summary

The City of Duarte Parks and Recreation Department is currently made up of seven full-time staff members and approximately 100 part-time professionals. Working closely with the Department Director, this dedicated team consistently strives to offer high-quality, innovative programming that is both affordable and safe, all within a healthy and welcoming environment across the community's eleven neighborhood parks, two sports parks, skate park, Fitness Center, Teen Center, Senior Center, and two recreation trails.

The City is now looking for a skilled relationship builder to fill the newly created position of Recreation Manager. This role will be instrumental in advancing the Department's mission and key initiatives. The ideal candidate will be a composed and confident leader, with a proven track record in parks and recreation management, who fosters positive relationships and inspires others through creativity and innovation. Strong judgment, excellent customer service skills, and superior verbal and written communication abilities are essential. As a collaborative, hands-on leader, the Recreation Manager will oversee, organize, and guide the Department's daily operations.

Under the administrative direction of the Director of Parks and Recreation, organizes, administers, and directs the daily operations for multiple recreation divisions within the department and assists with the development of plans, goals, and objectives to ensure a comprehensive recreational department for the community.

Duties

The following tasks are essential for this position. Incumbents in this classification may not perform all of these tasks or may perform similar related tasks not listed here.

• Works closely with Director of Parks and Recreation to establish and implement goals, policies, and initiatives consistent with the Department's mission and service values.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates recreation activities, events, services, and volunteer opportunities across the department including parks, facilities, and open spaces for the community at large.
• Oversees the recruitment, hiring, training, and supervision of full-time, temporary recreation personnel, independent contractors, contracted vendors, and volunteers.
• Evaluates the Department's staffing levels, and work assignments; sets performance standards for staff and evaluates performance.
• Assists with annual budget process including the City's Capital Improvement Plan, as it relates to parks and recreation, and city facilities.
• Ensures all department activities / services are conducted in accordance with applicable laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations.
• Conducts studies and surveys on complex operational and administrative issues; analyzes findings and prepares reports of practical solutions for review by the Director of Parks and Recreation.
• Prepares and makes presentations to City Council, Parks and Recreation Commission, and other boards and organizations as needed.
• Assists with the implementation of the department's recreation registration software system, marketing / social media campaigns, website content, and production of quarterly City News publication.
• Maintains effective relations with other City departments, community groups, school districts, library, public safety, and the public.
• Responds to, and resolves, difficult situations and sensitive public inquiries and complaints.
• Acts as a department liaison with federal, state, county and local agencies, school districts, community-based organizations, networks, commissions, and committees.
• Serves as the Director of Parks and Recreation in their absence.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge of :

Skill and Ability to :

Supplemental Information

Any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities could be considered qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills, and abilities would be a B.A. / B.S. degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in leisure studies, recreation administration, physical education, or a related field, and at least five (5) years of increasingly responsible administration and management of recreation / community services programs. Additional years of increasingly responsible and directly relevant experience may substitute for college credits on a year-for-year basis.

Full time employee benefits currently include; CalPERS retirement based on appointment date and membership status with CalPERS, e.g. 2% @ 60 or 2% @ 62; generous City contribution to medical insurance; City-paid dental, vision, short and long-term disability insurances. City-paid Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) and life insurance in an amount equal to employee's annual salary. 4 / 10 work schedule (closed Fridays), 11 paid holidays, 82 vacation hours (to start), 96 sick hours. Deferred compensation plans, credit union, tuition reimbursement, and computer loan program available.

The City of Duarte does not participate in the Social Security Program.

Part-time employees who are ineligible for CalPERS retirement enrollment will be enrolled in PARS, an alternative to Social Security. All part-time employees are eligible for paid sick leave per the city's Part-Time Sick Leave Policy.

For a complete overview of offered benefits please visit the city's of our website.

Draft a concise internal communication piece to the Director of Parks and Recreation regarding an issue or challenge for one of the Department's recreational amenities or programs.

Draft a communication piece pertaining to that same issue / challenge for the public.

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Salary : $115,752 - $141,482