Aquatics Safety Specialist
Aquatics Safety Specialist
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The mission of USC Recreational Sports is to provide the university community with opportunities to pursue a balanced healthy lifestyle through participation in recreational activities. Recreational Sports aims to support our members through fitness and recreational programming leadership development training and crossunit collaboration. Recreational Sports includes the following programs and services: Intramural Sports Club Sports Fitness Programs Youth Programs Aquatics Informal Recreation Facility Memberships and Special Events. Our staff works together to provide quality recreational activities enhance the USC student experience provide quality customer service mentoring and professional development opportunities to fulltime and student employees.
Under the direction of the Aquatics & Risk Management Coordinator the Aquatics & Safety Specialist will help coordinate the daily use and operation of the Uytengsu Aquatics Center and PED Indoor Pool including direct oversight of the lifeguard staff facility maintenance rescue equipment and firstaid supplies. The Aquatics & Safety Specialist will support the department Risk Management program by leading department trainings maintaining emergency equipment supplies and conducting safety audits.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assists the Coordinator in ensuring safety and quality program delivery.
- Assists with developing student staff training and administrative duties.
- Recruits hires trains schedules and evaluates student positions including head lifeguards lifeguards and safety instructors.
- Responsible for conducting a comprehensive regular inservice training program for all aquatics staff.
- Responsible for evaluating updating and revising all aquatics manuals handbooks waivers forms policies and procedures.
- Researches purchases inventories and distributes aquatic recreational equipment and supplies.
- Maintains a full knowledge of current risk management standards policies and practices in aquatic operations and programming. Ensures that all risk management and liability expectations are met and documented.
- Continuously monitors all aquatic areas for hazardous or unsafe conditions.
- Immediately reports any hazardous or unsafe conditions to management and takes appropriate action.
- Provides support for departmental programs and events including special events intramural events and club events/games.
- Supports department operations serving as a first responder for emergency situations providing emergency care providing customer service resolving conflicts and making decisions regarding facility usage.
- While on duty as a lifeguard provides continuous uninterrupted scanning of pool and aquatic area.
- Reviews all emergency procedures and responds to emergency situations immediately in accordance with Rec Sports policies and procedures.
- Supports department operations in leading certification courses (CPR/AED/First Aid/BBP) and firstaid workshops.
- Additional duties as assigned in support of USC Recreational Sports.
Minimum Qualifications
Education
- Bachelors Degree
- Combined experience/education as substitute for minimum education.
Experience
- Experience in facility management aquatics/program supervision or student personnel administration.
- Current certification in American Red Cross Lifeguarding or Ellis & Associates Lifeguarding. Additional Instructor certification required; must be able to obtain instructor certification within 90 days of hire.
- Knowledge of computer software for record maintenance and familiarity with aquatic facilities operations.
In addition the successful candidate must also demonstrate through ideas words and actions a strong commitment to USCs Unifying Values.
Preferred Qualifications
Education
- Masters Degree
Experience
- Two years of experience in lifeguard supervision.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish department goals.
- Candidates should possess a strong orientation towards customer service organizational skills decisionmaking skills and a willingness to work with the student and staff/faculty populations.
Note: This position will require some early mornings nights and weekends as business needs dictate.
The hourly rate range for this position is $24.96 $27.38. When determining an offer the University of Southern California considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the role the candidates experience education training key skills internal peer alignment applicable laws contractual requirements grant funding and market conditions.
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Minimum Education:Related undergraduate study
Combined experience/education as substitute for minimum education
Minimum Experience:
3 years
Combined education/experience as substitute for minimum experience
Minimum Field of Expertise:
Knowledge of computer software for record maintenance and familiarity with facilities operations.
USC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy. USC observes affirmative action obligations consistent with state and federal law. USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal records in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and with due consideration for patient and student safety. Please refer to theBackground Screening Policy Appendix Dfor specific employment screen implications for the position for which you are applying.
We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact USC Human Resources by phone ator by email at. Inquiries will be treated as confidential to the extent permitted by law.
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