Job Title: P/T Program Staff Department: Parks and Recreation Exempt (Y/N): N Shift: Variable Location: Pool Center, Joe Mack Campbell Park, and Community Centers Summary: The Jonesboro Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a dedicated and reliable individual for this position. This position will provide the right individual an excellent opportunity to become part of a friendly, team oriented work environment. This entry level employee will assist in performing maintenance and support functions for sport events. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to: • Assisting with equipment, materials, and supplies for sporting events. This duty is performed daily. • Prioritize and plan work activities to meet deadlines. This duty is performed daily. • Knowledge of softball rules and regulations with the ability to relay this information to the public and participants. This duty is performed daily. • Communicate effectively and tactfully with those contacted in the course of business including participants, staff, parents, and the public. This duty is performed daily. • Perform any other related duties as required or assigned. Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Education and Experience: Minimum requirement; general educational background without high school completion, plus 0 to 6 months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Communication Skills: Ability to read and understand documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Critical Thinking Skills: Ability to use common sense understanding in order to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few known variables in situations of a routine nature. Initiative Supervision Received: Under immediate supervision, performs general assignments of work, with periodic check of performance by supervisor. Planning: Moderate responsibility with regard to specific assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work operations. Decision Making: Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making which would affect the operating efficiency of the individual involved. Analytical Ability/ Problem Solving Moderately repetitive. Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes. Use of machines, equipment, and/or computers: Ability to operate equipment including, but are not limited to: golf cart Working Conditions: Outside working environment, wherein there are disagreeable working conditions part of the time including hot weather. Environmental Conditions The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to outdoor weather conditions. Physical Activities: The following physical activities 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 and expectations. Highly repetitive, moderately physical. Highly repetitive type of work which requires somewhat diversified physical demands of the employee. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to stand, walk; regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear; and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision; peripheral vision; and depth perception.