Skate Instructor

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC); Prior Lake (MN); On-site; USD 910,000 - 1,365,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Discounts on childcare and fitness membership

Job summary

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is seeking a Skate Instructor for Dakotah Sport and Fitness in Prior Lake, MN. This role involves instructing ice skating classes, pursuing membership sales, and ensuring participant safety. Ideal candidates will have prior experience and skills in ice skating with a strong ability to teach and motivate. The position offers competitive weekly pay, and an array of benefits and perks, including medical insurance, 401(k), and discounts on fitness memberships.

Qualifications

• One year of participation in organized ice skating.
• One to two years experience as an ice skating instructor.
• C.P.R. and First Aid Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment.

Responsibilities

• Instruct scheduled classes and ensure safety regulations.
• Pursue membership sales and maintain guest service.
• Monitor class attendance and provide service enhancements.

Skills

Ice skating proficiency

Safety awareness

Customer service

Job description

Come join all the fun at Dakotah Sport and Fitness as a Skate Instructor at the Dakotah! Ice Arena. Enjoy weekly pay, fitness benefits, and opportunity for career growth.

Job Overview

The purpose of this position is to instruct scheduled classes, to contribute to membership sales and retention, to ensure safety regulations are adhered to, to provide service enhancements, to conduct new member orientations, and to assist with the cleanliness and maintenance of the ice arena.

Create Your Path: The Work You’ll Do

• Actively pursues membership sales and recruits members and guests into activities and events.
• Ensures membership retention, repeat daily guest usage, and referrals through a high level of member and guest service delivery and response.
• Provides skating instruction and assistance while ensuring safety, visual cleanliness, and order. Develops an energetic and highly motivational class within a fun, safe and professional atmosphere. Teaches assigned classes on schedule and follows established class format, standards and protocol. Monitors and records class attendance. Communicates training methods clearly. Ensures each individual is progressing correctly by monitoring class with constant circulation. Ensures member and guest safety by visually monitoring.
• Provides service enhancements (when not conducting lessons) to members and guests. Encourages members to ask questions. Assists members with questions, concerns, and directions.
• Ensures the safety of all participants in class by consistently reminding members and guests of safety principles for the type of class and exercise. Provides hands on correction to enhance performance and prevent injury.

Job Requirements

• One year of participation in organized ice skating with a school team or established club.
• One to two years experience as an ice skating instructor.
• Thorough knowledge of the proper techniques of basic fundamental ice skating.
• High skill level of ice skating proficiency and ability to demonstrate starts, stops, and forward/backward skating techniques.
• C.P.R. and First Aid Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of employment.

Outstanding Benefits & Awesome Perks

Enjoy competitive weekly pay, outstanding benefits and advancement opportunities. Generous benefits include medical, dental, life and disability insurance, onsite medical clinics and pharmacy, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, wellness programs and more. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel, bus passes and fitness membership, tuition reimbursement.