Attendant - Recreation Facility (Evening Shift/Beach Ambassador) (PT)

About the role

The Attendant – Recreation Facility (Coastal Resources) supports daily operations promoting environmental stewardship, recreation, and education within the City’s Coastal Resources Department. This position assists with facility upkeep, wildlife programs, water-based activities, and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Provides customer service by greeting visitors and offering information about programs, facilities, safety guidelines, and rules.
• Safeguards participants and visitors ensuring safety and compliance with facility and program rules.
• Performs simple inspections of tools, vessels, equipment, and materials; reports unsafe conditions to a supervisor.
• Supports event setup, breakdown, and general program logistics.
• Follows established safety procedures and reports hazards, incidents, or concerns.
• Maintains inventory of related equipment and supplies.
• Assists with City-wide events and educational field trips.
• Performs basic custodial, maintenance, and light construction tasks.
• Enforces the City’s Leave Only Footprints (LOF) program, monitors beaches and shoreline activity, completes required reports, and maintains records.
• Assists with wildlife incidents as needed.
• Removes debris, abandoned equipment, and other items from beaches and waterways.
• Handles, sorts, shreds, and processes collected materials for recycling or disposal.
• Assists with routine facility, site, shoreline, trail, or equipment upkeep, including light cleaning, organization, and basic maintenance.
• Assists with coastal wildlife, natural resources, environmental education, and recreation programs.
• Assists with youth sailing or water-based programs, including instructional support and participant supervision.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 16 years of age.
• Current and valid driver’s license.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions.
• Ability to respond to verbal communications.
• Interest in coastal wildlife, conservation, environmental education, recreation, or sailing programs, as applicable.
• Previous experience in recreation, camp, environmental, conservation, sailing, or other settings, as applicable.
• CPR and First Aid certification, or willingness to obtain (for Wind & Water Learning Center Sail Camp assignments and Beach assignments).
• Experience as Sailing Instructor; experience as Head Sailing Instructor preferred (for Wind & Water Learning Center Sail Camp assignments).
• Possess US Sailing Instructor Certification or equivalent preferred (for Wind & Water Learning Center Sail Camp assignments).