Job opening: Swimming School Coordinator / Club Manager

swimwise-club; Antwerpen; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy

Professional management team

Dynamic working environment

Competitive remuneration

Job summary

Swimwise Club is seeking a Swimming School Coordinator and club manager to act as the linchpin of the organisation. You will oversee operations, develop scalable swimming programmes and work with a management team to drive growth and quality across branches.

You will lead programming, planning, staff recruitment and coaching, ensure safety and consistency, and help shape the club's external image. A passion for sport and community building is a strong plus in this dynamic startup environment.

Qualifications

• You are enterprising, organised and people-oriented.
• Strong interpersonal skills and easy communication with teachers, parents and partners.
• Interest in sport and physical activity is a major plus.
• Experience in sport, education, youth work, club activities or project work is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Launch and coordination of new branches in moveable swimming pools.
• Helping to devise scalable processes and forward-looking structures.
• Drawing up and optimising lesson and annual timetables.
• Staff and capacity planning by location.
• Recruiting, managing and coaching tutors, supervisors and local coordinators.
• Motivating teams and building a warm, professional club culture.
• Ensuring quality, safety and consistency across different sites.
• Alignment between infrastructure, planning and teams.
• Help shape and contribute to the image of Swimwise Club.
• An affinity for social media and external communications is a clear asset.
• Regular reporting to the Swimwise Board of Directors.
• Close collaboration with the management team and support functions.

Job description

Job opening: Swimming School Coordinator / Club Manager

Swimwise Club makes swimming lessons and water exercise accessible throughout Flanders, with portable Swimwise pools, natural filtration, and a people-oriented approach.

Your role

As Swimming School Coordinator and club manager, you are the linchpin of Swimwise Club.

You'll keep an eye on the big picture, manage teams and continue to develop a scalable swimming model.

You won't be on your own: you'll receive active support from a management team and a head of teaching for the swimming courses.

Your responsibilities

Development of an innovative swimming concept

• Launch and coordination of new branches in moveable swimming pools
• Helping to devise scalable processes and forward-looking structures

Programming & planning

• Drawing up and optimising lesson and annual timetables
• Staff and capacity planning by location
• Recruiting, managing and coaching tutors, supervisors and local coordinators
• Motivating teams and building a warm, professional club culture

Operational follow-up

• Ensuring quality, safety and consistency across different sites
• Alignment between infrastructure, planning and teams

Communication & visibility

• Help shape and contribute to the image of Swimwise Club
• An affinity for social media and external communications is a clear asset
• Regular reporting to the Swimwise Board of Directors
• Close collaboration with the management team and support functions
• You are enterprising, organised and people-oriented
• You enjoy organising, setting priorities and keeping track of things
• You have strong interpersonal skills and communicate easily with teachers, parents and partners
• You don't need to teach swimming yourself or be a swimming instructor, but an interest in sport and physical activity is a major plus
• An interest in social media, communication and community building is a major asset
• Experience in sport, education, youth work, club activities or project work is an asset

What makes Swimwise unique?

• Innovative moveable swimming pools that bring swimming water to where it's needed
• A clever combination of sport, education and innovation
• An ambitious, rapidly growing start-up organisation with scope for initiative and ideas
• A strong team in which everyone's expertise complements one another's

What do we offer?

• A key role with real impact within a unique and innovative concept
• A great deal of autonomy, but with structural support
• Working with a professional management team
• A dynamic working environment where no two days are the same
• Competitive remuneration and fringe benefits, negotiable depending on profile (employment or self-employed collaboration possible)