What are the responsibilities and job description for the Programming Director and Facility Manager position at Just A Game Fieldhouse?
We need an organized leader with passion for promoting physical activity, wellness, and building community.
This director will be responsible for developing, organizing, and implementing high-quality sports and recreation programs at both our Wisconsin Dells location and the newly opening: Justagame Reedsburg.
This position will be work on-site at Justagame Reedsburg as the day-to-day facility manager, but also spend some time in our Dells location and develop programming at both locations.
It is an exciting time to join Justagame as we grow and add a second facility.
- Oversee daily operations, schedules, and programming at the Justagame Reedsburg Fieldhouse.
- Manage local monthly subscriptions and memberships.
- Develop and implement a full schedule of local programming at both facilities.
- Market and distribute programming information locally in as many channels as possible.
- Primary objective will be to “Fill the space.” focusing on weekdays and non-peak hours.
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Programming ideas are endless and include:
- Daily play
- Sports programs/camps
- Youth and adult leagues
- Infant Mom programs
- Senior programs
- Family activities
- Programs to capture tourist and convention business
- Cultivate and maintain positive relationships with the city, school district, athletic programs, business community.
- Organize and conduct parent orientation meetings, and training meetings for coaches when needed.
- Work with local Park & Rec/community groups to compliment their programming and provide rental space when needed.
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Maintain relationships with other schools and athletic departments/teams in the area.
- Our goal is to raise the level of participation and recreation in all area schools and athletics.
- Light bookkeeping work and cash management.
- Work very closely with to help and support the Food, Beverage, and Retail director with the Reedsburg concessions/retail.
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Hire and manage staff
- Part-time evening supervisors
- Additional coaches and programming operators
- Assist with hiring, training, scheduling PT concessions staff
- Assist in managing retail and concessions operations.
- Assist in keeping the facility clean and well maintained inside and out.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of the building and all Justagame Fieldhouse business operations.
- Aid current staff in helping develop new tournaments and events as well as attracting 3rd party event operators to rent the facility.
- Work events at JAG Fieldhouse in the Dells during slow times in Reedsburg.
- Work closely with JAG Select Basketball, JAG Volleyball Club and Tournament Directors and aid in providing programming to these groups.
Qualifications/Preferred Experience:
- Passion for sports, fitness, recreation.
- Leadership, management and training ability.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in an applicable/related field.
- Experience at a YMCA, Park and Rec, sports facility or comparable.
- Excellent communication and people skills including conflict resolution.
- Enjoys customer service.
- Positive energy and upbeat.
- Extremely organized and neat.
- Strong math and computer skills.
- Self-motivated and comfortable working alone at times.
- Physically capable of working on your feet for hours at a time and moderate lifting.
- Comfortable with non-standard hours and weekends.
- Strong independent problem-solving abilities.
About Just A Game Fieldhouse:
Justagame Fieldhouse is the Midwest's premiere sports facility. Located in Wisconsin Dells it has all the amenities of a vacation hot spot. Justagame offers 35,000 square feet of gym space and specializes in basketball, volleyball, grappling, gymnastics as well as trade show events. Justagame Impressions is a custom screen printing, embroidery, and wide format print shop. We service a wide array of schools, teams, businesses, and individual clients. Products include all types of screen printed and embroidered apparel, promotional products, banners, canvas prints, stickers, vehicle wraps and more. Justagame Tickets is a digital ticketing platform largely for high school sporting events.Justagame Live helps its clients monetize live streaming for events of all kinds.
Salary : $40,000 - $60,000