Department Description
UW Recreation is a department within the Division of Student Life. We provide safe, accessible, and dynamic recreation experiences to engage students in growth and wellbeing. UW Recreation serves over one million students, faculty, and staff each academic year through informal and formal recreation, including fitness and sports classes, intramural and club sports, outdoor education, mindfulness programs, and more.
Diversity Statement
At the University of Washington, diversity is integral to excellence. We value and honor diverse experiences and perspectives, strive to create welcoming and respectful learning environments, and promote access, opportunity and justice for all.
Job Description
Under the supervision of the Fitness Manager, Fitness Program Leads are responsible for assisting with programmatic and administrative support related to all Fitness programming. Examples of duties include: scheduling, data entry, planning special events, teaching classes, assisting with F.I.T, marketing and outreach, and tasks related to program organization and communication.
Educational Benefits
UW Recreation provides student employees with a meaningful work experience. As a part of our Husky Experience initiative, student employees will engage in a variety of experiences including staff orientation and trainings, leadership development workshops, social justice roundtables, service projects, and social gatherings to build connections across the department with peers and professional staff. Some intended learning competencies that will be developed in this position include:
- Systems thinking
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Idea generation
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Receiving feedback
- Productive relationships
- Appropriate interaction
- Customer service
- Inclusion
- Verbal, non-verbal, listening, and written communication
- Conflict negotiation/resolution
- Goals, plan, organization
- Initiative
- Functioning independently
- Responding to change
- Positive attitude
- Excellence
Minimum Qualifications
- University of Washington matriculated student
- Must be familiar with the Group Fitness Instruction Program with UW Recreation (either as a current instructor or patron)