Swim Instructor in NJ

SWIM INSTRUCTOR - Summer w/ option for fall/winter indoor lessons

Outdoor Pool Swim Lessons

Bring your energetic, positive and creative personality to LifeCycle Swim School. Be part of our summer team that provides safe, effective, fun swim lessons and water safety education for all ages, including adults. You’ll guide students through our proprietary progressive program starting with comfort, survival skills, basic water competency, and onto stroke introduction and refinement. This hourly opportunity also includes pool opening and closing responsibilities. Paid training. Lessons take place in a private, residential pool.

We have openings for beginner/intermediate teachers and advanced stroke refinement teachers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Swim teaching experience highly preferred
• Lifeguard certification - if you don't have this we can help you get it.
• Competent, confident swimming strokes with ability to demonstrate the skills listed in the Physical Requirements section. We may need to help refine your form.
• Successful candidates can come from a variety of backgrounds: Teaching, Sports/Fitness Training, Working with Children (includes parenting!), Psychology, or Premium Customer Service.
• Spanish language fluency a plus.

FURTHERMORE…You…

• Love the water, but don't need to be an elite swimmer.
• Might have competitive swimming experience is double awesome.
• Enjoy people, although you may have a preference working with a particular age group.
• Have excellent social skills, and the “gift of gab.”
• Have a positive, fun attitude.
• Think quickly and are flexible in your approach to teaching.
• Have a reliable, mature work ethic, and will follow our cell phone policy rules.
• May be looking for a job that gives you pleasure by doing something good!

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• During your shift, keep everyone safe in and around the water.
• Execute safe, effective swim lessons for any of the levels of the LifeCycle Progressive Swim Program – which you’ll learn during onboarding.
• Educate students and parents of minor students in our water safety curriculum.
• Establish a positive rapport with students and parents.
• Open and close the pool, following set protocols. Set up and store teaching supplies, clean/disinfect touch points. Follow CDC protocols to help stop spread of covid-19
• Commitment to your assigned schedule and respect shown to each student/family to be on time and prepared for each class.
• Establish clear and open communication with clients, supervisor and pool owner.

RESULTS

You'll teach students to be safe in, on and around water, reducing the community's exposure to drowning accidents. You'll encourage a love for swimming that will help students enjoy a lifetime of aquatic activities and personal fitness. You'll help establish LifeCycle Swim School as the premium provider of swim instruction and water safety education in New Jersey, and create opportunities for personal career growth.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• We pay above industry average because we want exceptional teachers. Teaching pay ranges from $18-$30 per hour, depending on class size , venue and experience.
• Company pays for your Sports Insurance
• Paid training ($16 p/h).
• Access to private lifeguarding opportunities / additional work.
• Opportunity for personal career growth as we grow.
• Our jobs help maintain employees’ personal fitness.
• Establish community connections.

PHYSICAL & OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Reliable transportation to get to pool location.
• Two references.
• Two to six days per week, depending on how much you want to work. Monday-Friday shifts include 10am-1pm, 2:00-5:30; 4:00-7:00. Optional weekend work.
• Getting wet, stairs, kneeling, twisting, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, grasping, talking, hearing, vision.
• Proper demonstration of the following swim skills:
• Water skills: Bubbles and bobs; Front and back floats, with roll-overs; Streamline glides on back and front; Survival floats and treading
• Strokes: Paddle stroke; Elementary backstroke; Freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke. Butterfly preferred.
• Water entries: turn and slide; pencil jump; sitting dive
• Flip-turns and competitive diving a plus

Job Types: Part-time, Seasonal

Pay: $18.00 - $30.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 – 35 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid training
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Application Question(s):

• Have you ever taught swimming?
• Have you ever been on a competitive swim team?
• If you're enrolled in education beyond highschool....Where do you attend? What year of school are you? What is your major, minor or area of academic interest?
• Will you be able to work a minimum of 12 hours per week, during the daytime?

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

License/Certification:

• Lifeguard Certification (Preferred)
• Driver's License (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Montclair, NJ (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $30