Part-Time Junior Tennis Assistant

About the role

The Burlington Tennis Center (BTC) is a premier public facility offering 12 lighted plexipave courts, shaded viewing areas, and a pavilion. Located near the Aquatics Center in City Park, BTC provides a range of tennis programs for juniors and adults, hosts high school, collegiate, and USTA tournaments, and maintains additional courts at Fairchild and Davidson Parks.

What You Will Do

• Assist the tennis director with on and off-court duties, including greeting and welcoming customers, clinic and camp instruction, directing junior and adult mixers, supervising and training other part-time staff, and performing cleaning and maintenance tasks at the tennis court complex.
• Lead weekly clinics and summer camps for junior and adult players, focusing on tennis fundamentals, teaching players the rules, proper attire, and etiquette, and enhancing their overall experience.
• Support the Tennis Director in training staff on effective coaching methods (training provided).
• Oversee the opening and closing of the tennis center, ensuring smooth daily operations, setting up ball machines, preparing facilities for patrons, and assisting in maintaining city tennis courts, including repairing surfaces, clearing debris, replacing nets, wind screens, and center straps.
• Greet and welcome patrons to promote programs and foster a positive atmosphere, professionally answering phone calls to provide accurate information about tennis programs to callers and visitors.

Qualifications

• Knowledge, skills, and abilities: Reliable transportation, outgoing, enthusiastic, and passionate about serving and teaching others, willingness to learn, strong sense of urgency, effective time management, organizational capabilities, strong sense of tennis knowledge, familiarity with tennis rules, proper attire, and etiquette.
• Minimum qualifications: Age requirement of at least 15 years old.

Supplemental Information

• Physical requirements and working conditions: Must be able to lift 30 lbs. or less of tennis-related items and be physically able to perform general maintenance duties, including a leaf blower. Work is performed mainly outdoors in varying weather conditions, including hot summer temperatures.
• The City of Burlington does not offer benefits to part-time positions that require less than 1000 work hours per calendar year.