MWR Recreation Assistant

China Lake Golf Course; Seal Beach (CA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

China Lake Golf Course is seeking a Community Recreation Assistant to help deliver diverse programs and services on base. You will assist with customer service, event registrations, and facility operations, ensuring smooth daily performance and accurate reporting.

The role involves handling equipment check-out, inventory controls, and collaboration with staff to expand leisure activities such as camping, cycling, sailing, and weekend trips while maintaining safety and program standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide customer service, information and support for Community Recreation programs and activities.
• Check patron eligibility to ensure authorized use of recreation facilities, resources and equipment.
• Provide information about activities and program offerings.
• Open and close facilities.
• Order and restock supplies, and prepare snack bar menu items or prepackaged retail items.
• Collect fees from customers for tickets, retail and rental items, and classes or trips using POS systems.
• Be accountable for accuracy of daily sales transactions and complete a Daily Activity Report (DAR) after each shift.
• Assist in processing customer Internet registrations and event registrations.
• Check in/out Community Recreation equipment, collect rental fees, and perform inventories and inspections.
• Notify supervisor if damage or loss has occurred.
• Ensure all rental or check-out forms are completed and procedures followed.
• Conduct inventory and maintain controls, ensuring proper accountability of program equipment.
• Assist in administering workshops, clinics and events in leisure activity areas (camping, cycling, sailing, etc.).
• Provide recreation experiences related to leisure skill sets through day and weekend trips.
• Assist in day-to-day administration of multiple programs, including data entry and reporting.
• Perform inventory of equipment, retail goods and cash-equivalent items.
• Support recruitment, training and scheduling of Community Recreation staff.
• Support adherence to EEO principles and policies.
• Assist in planning, coordinating, publicizing, marketing and executing MWR programs and events.
• Perform entertainment and promotion scheduling and update electronic/multi-media tools as needed.
• Pursue outreach to promote MWR facilities and events and develop partnerships with on-base and off-base groups.

Job description

Duties

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• Provides customer service, information and support of Community Recreation programs and activities. Service to MWR customers includes, but is not limited to: checking patron eligibility to ensure authorized use of recreation facilities, resources and equipment, providing information about activities and program offerings, opening and closing facilities, ordering and restocking supplies, and preparing snack bar menu items or prepackaged retail items.
• Collects fees from customers associated with sales of tickets, retail and rental items, as well as from classes, trips, and various other Community Recreation programs using Point of Sales (POS) and computer programs.
• Is accountable for the accuracy of daily sales transactions and completes a Daily Activity Report (DAR) at the end of every shift.
• Assists in processing customer Internet registrations (i.e. Net Near You), initial log-ins and event registrations.
• Checks Community Recreation equipment and resources in and out, collects any applicable rental fees, inventories items and completes inspections upon return.
• Notifies supervisor or program lead if damage or loss has occurred.
• Ensures all rental or check-out forms are properly completed and reservation and checkout procedures are followed.
• Conducts inventory, maintains inventory controls and maintains equipment for proper accountability of program equipment and resources.
• Assists in administering traditional and non-traditional workshops, clinics and events in a variety of leisure and recreation skills subject areas, in tune with offerings popular in the local area, including but not limited to camping, cycling, sailing, backpacking, canoeing, snow skiing, hiking and water sports.
• Provides recreation experiences related to leisure skill sets in the form of day and weekend trips.
• Assists in day-to-day administration of multiple programs to which assigned. Tasks include submission of event after-action reports, patronage data collection and entering program data.
• Performs inventory of various types of equipment, retail goods, supplies and items deemed to have cash value.
• Performs administrative duties, all of which are accomplished through a variety of means, including computer software programs which track resource inventories, patron usage/comments, and program standards metrics.
• Assists with recruitment, training and scheduling of Community Recreation staff.
• Actively supports the command statement on adherence to EEO principles and policies.
• Assists in the planning, coordinating, publicizing, marketing and execution of MWR programs and special events.
• Performs entertainment and promotion scheduling.
• Assists in updating of electronic and multi-media support tools, as needed.
• Seeks ways to promote MWR facilities and events through outreach opportunities on base.
• Promotes use of recreational E-reading resources available through online MWR Library Program resources.
• Develops working partnerships with both on base and off base organizations (park districts, forest preserve, clubs, special interest groups, etc.) to support and benefit MWR programs.
• Performs community outreach to assist in the development of contacts.
• Assists in the creation of professional proposals, execution of agreements and follow-up.
• Researches and provides information and referral for a variety of recreational opportunities for individuals/families on and off the base.
• Adheres to NAVMED P-5010 sanitation requirements.
• Initiates and follows up on maintenance trouble calls to get equipment/facility issues resolved.
• Provides support for Community Recreation event set up and break down.
• Performs other duties as assigned as they pertains to the duties of this position.