Overview
CENTERS, LLC is a professional management firm specializing in facility, operation, and program management for higher education. CENTERS' management approach is customized for each client yet retains our uniform quality. Our firm unites site staff with a centralized administrative team, each contributing to the firm's goals and client needs. The CENTERS team is innovative, entrepreneurial, trail-blazing, and ambitious for both CENTERS and our clients. Today, CENTERS provides management services for 14 clients.
Responsibilities
Job Summary
The Coordinator, Competitive Sports and Camps is responsible for the administration of the intramural sport, club sport and youth camp program. The coordinator will collaborate with campus partners and department teammates to plan, schedule, and administer these programs. With support from direct reports, the coordinator will provide excellent customer service to program participants, manage program delivery and enforce sport rules, program and university policies.
This position will work on-site at our UAB location in the heart of this urban campus. University Recreation (URec) provides fitness, wellness, and recreational opportunities for the UAB community and beyond. The Campus Recreation Center gives UAB Students and URec members the opportunity to access a large aquatic center, fitness center, studio space, indoor 36-foot-high climbing wall, four gym courts, multipurpose gym, four racquetball courts, squash court, and indoor track.
Essential Functions:
* Train officiating mechanics and game management skills
* Develop and communicate intramural sport rules and program participation policies and procedures
* Supervise competitive sport contests and provide staff with on-site evaluations
* Communicate with campers parent/guardians
* Manage and inventory of all camp and intramural sport equipment and supplies
* Advise the club sports on individual activity and overallprogram operation
* Monitor team rosters, eligibility, and schedules for intramural and club teams
* Encourage and support intramural teams, officials, and club sports competition travel
* Evaluate and assess program performance and effectiveness
Staff Supervision:
* Recruit, hire, train, schedule and evaluate part-time student employees
* Responsible for approving timecards and preparing necessary documents/reports for bi-weekly payroll
Site Specific Responsibilities:
* Work with the Undergraduate Student Government Funding Board on annual club sport funding allocations
* Coordinate club sport and intramural game schedules with athletic trainers for coverage
* Develop a thriving environment that supports intramural teams, officials, and Club Sports to compete on a national level and bring back championships at NIRSA events and other opportunities
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
* Bachelor’s degree or 4 or more years of work experience required
* Experience working in higher education, recreation, or sports
* Demonstrated experience in managing and organizing intramurals, sport clubs and/or camps
* Officiating experience preferred
Skills and Abilities:
* Leadership and supervisory abilities
* Strong written and verbal communication skills; confidence speaking with a variety of constituents and stakeholders
* Ability to work as part of, and lead a team that collaborates effectively with colleagues
* Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
* Entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm
* Analytical skills to: identify problems, assess alternatives, and render consistent, logical decisions
* Ability to thrive in an environment that values high expectations, accountability, and balanced lifestyle choices
* Ability to work hands-on
Work Environment and Physical Demands
Work Environment
* Office, indoor and outdoor sporting, and non-sporting events environment
* Non-smoking environment
* Moderate to loud noise
* Maintain flexible hours for occasional sporting and other events that may occur on weekends and evenings
Physical Demands
* Must be able to remain in a stationary position 70% of the work day
* Consistently operates a computer and office equipment
* Walking or working with natatorium and sport facilities 30% of the work day
* Must be able to traverse throughout the building and campus. Must be able to match speed of movement to game play. Regularly ascending/descending building levels and occasionally ladders or stools.
* Must be able to lift, move and set up items weighing as much as 50 lbs.
* Must be able to discuss, converse with, and exchange accurate information with arena patrons, staff, stakeholders, etc.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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