Saturday Morning Learn to Skate Instructor (Ice)

Non-seasonal, part-time position with no benefits. Schedule includes weekdays, evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

About the role

Responsible for providing skating instruction for group lessons. Enforce established procedures and safety regulations on the ice arena and throughout the facility. Maintain positive relations with customers, students, parents, and community members in all interactions.

This position requires the ability to demonstrate good figure skating technique and a basic understanding of related rules, regulations, and figure skating organizations. Good human relation and communication skills and the ability to effectively teach and instruct skaters of differing skill levels are vital to the successful execution of this position.

Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility for the effective performance of all related skating instructor functions.
• Provide instruction for arena sponsored group lessons as required.
• Administer basic skills tests and record student progress.
• Promote and support all Center activities.
• Enforce safety regulations and supervise arena activities.
• Assume responsibility for protecting the arena, patrons, and the staff.
• Enforce freestyle rules in accordance with policies set forth by management.
• Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining positive relations with customers.
• Assist and support students in a productive manner. Maintain a positive rapport with parents.
• Resolve questions and problems quickly and courteously.
• Assume responsibility for establishing and maintaining effective working relations with personnel and management. Assist staff as needed.
• Keep management informed of area activities and of any significant concerns.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Assume responsibility for other duties as assigned.
• Keep work area clean and well maintained.

Requirements

• Must have a competitive skating background and/or involvement in USFSA or ISIA skating structure.
• Approved Criminal Background Investigation check if over 18 years of age.
• First Aid and CPR Certified.
• Must be at least 14 years or older.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of figure skating techniques, rules, and organizations.

Skills

• Strong figure skating technique.
• Effective teaching skills.
• Positive human relations and communications skills.

Physical Activities and Requirements

• Balancing: May involve walking, standing, crouching on narrow, slippery or moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending downward and forward at the waist. Requires full use of lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Resting on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending downward and forward at the leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: For extended time periods.
• Walking: Especially for long distances.
• Lifting: Occurs frequently and requires substantial use of upper body and back muscles.
• Grasping: Using fingers and palm on an object.
• Feeling: Perceiving sensual characteristics of objects including size, shape, texture, temperature, etc., through touch.
• Talking: Especially when one must frequently convey detailed or important instructions or ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Seeing: Average, ordinary, vision acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents or products, or operate machinery.
• Physical Strength: Medium work, exerts up to 60 lbs. occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. frequently.
• Need to know how to ice skate in a professional manner.
• Standing long hours, skating, and lifting.

Working Conditions

• Worker subject to changing inside temperatures (such as freezers).
• Must work in extreme cold for more than an hour. Temperatures below 32 degrees.
• Must work in very noisy environments that may require workers to shout to communicate.
• Frequent local travel.

Mental Activities and Requirements

• General Education-Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved instructions and to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables.
• Education-Mathematics Ability: Ability to perform very basic math skills including adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing two digit numbers; to perform the four basic arithmetic operations with coins as part of a dollar; to perform operations with units such as inch, foot, and yard; ounce and pound (or their metric counterparts).
• General Education-Language Ability: Ability to recognize the meaning of 2,500 (2 and 3 syllable) words; to read (by sight or Braille) at a very slow rate; to compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers, ability to print and communicate in simple sentences.