Head Lifeguard - 2025

City of Wichita Kansas; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Head Lifeguard, where you can lead with confidence and protect with purpose! This seasonal role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your lifeguarding skills while ensuring the safety of patrons at neighborhood pools. You'll be responsible for monitoring pool areas, instructing swim lessons, and coordinating staff efforts. With a focus on teamwork and community impact, this position allows you to make a real difference in a fun and supportive environment. If you're ready to take your lifeguarding experience to the next level, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

• Must be 18+ years old with 2 years of lifeguarding experience.
• Current CPR-PR and First Aid certification required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor pool areas for safety and respond to emergencies.
• Assist with scheduling staff and instruct swim lessons.
• Enforce pool policies and maintain facility cleanliness.

Skills

Lifeguarding

CPR and First Aid

Swimming

Team Coordination

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Lead with Confidence, Protect with Purpose!

Are you ready to take your lifeguarding experience to the next level? As a Head Lifeguard for the City of Wichita, you'll play a vital role in ensuring safety, coordinating team efforts, and creating a fun and secure environment for everyone who visits our neighborhood pools. This dynamic seasonal position offers an excellent opportunity to expand your leadership skills, enhance your lifeguarding expertise, and make a positive impact on your community.

In this role, you’ll not only monitor pool areas and respond swiftly to emergencies, but also assist with scheduling staff, instruct swim lessons, and serve as a bridge between the pool manager and lifeguard team. You'll gain experience in pool operations, facility maintenance, and public contact, all while working in a supportive and team-focused environment.

If you’re seeking a rewarding summer role where you can lead, protect, and grow, join us and make waves as a Head Lifeguard!

THIS IS A LIMITED PART-TIME POSITION
The day and hours for this position: varies

2025 Important Dates

• The interview process is scheduled to begin in early March 2025.
• Save the date! Neighborhood pools are set to open Monday, May 26, 2025.

Bargaining Unit: No Union Representation
**Posting may close at any time**

Responsibilities

• Monitor assigned recreational pool area to detect hazards, disturbances, or safety infractions, by practicing preventative lifeguarding.
• Recognize and respond effectively in emergencies.
• Enforce all City of Wichita Parks pools policies and procedures.
• Instruct swim lessons.
• Assist with daily incident and cash reports.
• Assist with scheduling staff, and serve as liaison between the pool manager and pool staff.
• Participate in regular in-service training.
• Assist in cleaning the facility and related areas and maintenance and operation of pool equipment.
• These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Other job-related duties may be assigned as needed.
• At no time should any other job duties interfere with the primary responsibilities of a lifeguard: The safety of the patrons.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old or older.
• 2 years of experience as a lifeguard.
• Have a current American Red Cross CPR-PR, First Aid, and LGT.
• Applicants must satisfactorily demonstrate required skills including swimming, CPR-PR and first aid.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need of a sponsorship.

Preferred Experience and Training

• A current WSI and/or LGI certification.

Offers of employment are contingent upon passing American Red Cross Lifeguarding, pre-employment drug screening, respirator testing, and upon satisfactory evaluation of a criminal record check.