Recreation Aide

**Recreation Aide I** **Department: Leisure Services** **FLSA Status: Non-Exempt** **Hourly Salary: $13.94/hr** **Position Overview:** The Recreation Aide will perform routine duties necessary for the orderly operation of a recreational facility. This person will interact with the public to ensure a safe, pleasant, and productive recreational experience. The Recreation Aide may work at centers, parks or other public facilities. Schedules may include nights and weekends. This position is classified as a non-essential personnel classification for Emergency Response purposes. This means that, during an emergency, the position is not considered immediately necessary for emergency response or critical continuity operations. **Essential Job Functions:** Essential job duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following: **Knowledge Skills and Abilities:** Must possess the required knowledge, skills, abilities and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed. **Education and Experience** High School graduate or equivalent. One-year previous experience in recreational tasks or caring for children preferred. **Licenses of Certifications** Must possess a valid Mississippi Driver’s License **Physical Demands and Working Conditions** The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical requirements include occasional lifting/carrying of 75+ pounds; visual acuity, speech and hearing; hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer keyboard and basic office equipment. Subject to sitting, standing, reaching, walking, twisting and kneeling to perform the essential functions. Working conditions are both indoors and outdoors.