Full-Time Recreation Leader (.75FTE)

Are you passionate about community engagement, recreation, and creating positive experiences for people of all ages and abilities? The City of Bozeman is excited to announce a new full-time Recreation Leader position (30 hours per week). The Recreation Leader brings energy and creativity to plan, coordinate, and implement engaging recreation programs, activities, and events that bring people of all ages and abilities together. This position works directly with participants and their families, supports program instructors, and helps ensure programs are safe, inclusive, and enjoyable for the community.

This is your opportunity to make a meaningful difference in your community by joining the City of Bozeman! You will be part of a passionate team driving positive change while enjoying a fantastic benefits package. Full-time City of Bozeman employees receive top-tier benefits including 15 vacation days, 12 sick days, 12 holidays, 8 weeks of paid paternal leave, potential for bilingual pay, excellent retirement options, comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, discounted ski tickets and gym memberships, and much more!

Bargaining Unit: Montana Federation of Public Employees Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Non-Exempt Work Week: Up to 30 hours per week, primarily between 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Initial training includes varied daytime, evening, weekend, and holiday shifts alongside experienced staff. Following training, schedules will be more consistent but may vary based on department programming, facility needs, and employee availability.

Examples of Essential Work (Illustrative Only) • Develops, organizes, and leads a wide variety of recreational activities, including arts and crafts, games, classes, sports, camps, and special events for the general public. • Interacts with parents, participants, public and other City of Bozeman employees. • Collects fees for open gym sessions. • Maintains inventory of equipment and supplies. • Maintains attendance records. • Ensures the safety of all participants within an assigned recreation program, including maintaining the cleanliness and organization of equipment, materials, and facilities, performing minor equipment repair when necessary, and completing accident and incident reports. • Provides guidance and support to participants of various ages by enforcing rules and managing behavior. • Plans, organizes, coordinates, implements, evaluates, and promotes recreation programs within assigned areas, including preparing lesson plans and gathering necessary materials and equipment. • Performs cleaning duties including mopping, vacuuming, washing, disinfecting, and putting away supplies. • Conducts recreation facility checks to include cleaning, inspecting for and reporting damage to Supervisor. • Utilizes City vehicles to transport equipment and supplies to City parks and facilities for camps and events. • Markets and promotes recreation activities through presentations and outreach to community groups, and responding to requests for information from the public. • Provides needed information and demonstrations concerning how to perform certain work tasks to new employees in the same or similar class of positions. • Administers first aid, CPR, and use of AED as needed. • Keeps immediate supervisor and designated others fully and accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems. • Attends meetings, conferences, workshops and training sessions and reviews publications and audio-visual materials to become and remain current on the principles, practices and new developments in assigned work areas. • Responds to citizens’ questions and comments in a courteous and timely manner. • Communicates and coordinates regularly with appropriate others to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of interdepartmental operations and activities. • Performs other duties consistent with the role and function of this classification.