Ski Coach - Woodward Park City

Parleys Recreation Partners LLC; Park City (UT); On-site; USD 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 USD minimum hourly

Full access to facilities

Discounts on food, retail, and gear

Complimentary passes to POWDR resorts

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Woodward Park City in Utah seeks a Ski Coach to join the Progression team under supervision of instructional leaders. You will motivate and educate guests across skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding and other action sports, delivering safe, engaging training for all ages and abilities.

Responsibilities include teaching a variety of lessons, creating skill progressions, and ensuring safety rules are followed during daily sessions in multiple zones.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching snowboarding or skiing to diverse ages and abilities.
• Ability to create lesson plans and progressions.
• Strong emphasis on safety and helmet rules.

Responsibilities

• Teach snowboard or ski lessons (group and private).
• Lead safety trainings and enforce safety rules.
• Create lesson plans and progressions; oversee daily sessions.

Skills

Teaching snowboarding

Teaching skiing

Safety instruction

Communication with kids and parents

Job description

Woodward Park City, located just 20 minutes from Salt Lake City, is a year-round world-class action sports facility with a culture that comes straight from our main product: Fun. If this sounds like the kind of place you'd like to work, progress, and play, we'd love to hear from you! The Ski Coach will be a vital member of the Progression team at Woodward Park City, reporting to both the Instructional Program Supervisor and the Zone Coach Supervisor. The successful applicant will motivate and educate guests in various action sports, with a primary focus on skiing, skateboarding, BMX, trampoline, snowboarding and tumbling. The Woodward Park City Coach works directly with guests, promoting snow sports and action sports by providing safe, enjoyable, and practical training and instruction sessions. Responsibilities include teaching individuals of all ages and ability levels, and creating appropriate skill progressions tailored to each person’s capabilities. This encompasses progressions in both the Woodward Hub and the Woodward Park City Mountain. Above all, safety, enjoyment, and innovative learning remain the top priorities.

What’s in it for you:

• $18 minimum
• Full access to our world-class facilities.
• Work and play in the same innovative environments as professional and Olympic athletes.
• Complimentary access to Snowbird and most POWDR-owned resorts (Skiing, Riding, and more!)
• Friends & family discounts and complimentary passes.
• Enough free time to enjoy the Woodward lifestyle.
• Discounts on food, retail, and gear.
• Career development and growth opportunities are available both here and at our facilities worldwide.
• A connection with people who share the same passions and embrace each other’s unique and individual styles.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Teach beginners to advanced Snowboard or Ski lessons.
• Teach group and private lessons, classes, day camps, and special events
• Teach Safety Training in all areas
• Inform and enforce all safety rules and policies, including wearing helmets, PARK SMART, ATML, etc.
• Create lesson plans and skill progressions.
• Provide general instruction and safety oversight during daily sessions in zones.
• Proactively always engage with participants.
• Ability to break skills down into easily definable steps
• Understand multiple action sports, including snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, BMX, parkour, and mountain. Bike, scooter, cheer, etc.
• Communicate well with supervisors, co-workers, and guests
• Communicate well with kids and parents from all backgrounds
• Be active in attending coaching clinics, spotting clinics, and additional training, and possibly lead clinics in your expertise
• Be a part of a unique team, set a positive example, and be a role model
• Set up and tear down the Winter sports lesson areas
• Help maintain the cleanliness and functionality of all Woodward Park City sports facilities, including foam pits, skateparks, progression park, etc.
• Other duties as assigned
• Must be 18 years old or older.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding snow and action sports tricks, progressions, and terminology, and/or experience working on trampolines or in gymnastics.
• Experience working with children, teens, and adults
• Experience working in a camp setting
• Instructor, coach, or teaching certification preferred (PSIA, AASI, or USASA)
• First Aid/CPR Certification preferred
• Proven ability to collaborate well across functions and departments, work as part of a team, and lead teams in achieving goals.

We make us Woodward. We are a welcoming community that celebrates individual stories, backgrounds, experiences, and identities where we all have "different" in common. We believe in the strength of representing all voices and having space for everyone. We believe in pushing boundaries and bringing our authentic selves to work while embracing uniqueness, creativity, and different points of view. Even if you don't think you meet all the qualifications listed for a job, we'd love to hear from you.

POWDR is an adventure lifestylecompanythat inspires every human being with cool experiences in awesome places.POWDR’s awesome places include Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort in Colorado; Boreal Mountain Resort and Soda Springs in the Lake Tahoe region of California; Mt. Bachelor in Oregon; SnowbirdinUtah; andSilverStar Mountain Resort in British Columbia, Canada. POWDR is an adventure lifestyle company that inspires every human being with cool experiences in awesome places. Within POWDR’s portfolio are six mountain resorts including Copper Mountain and Eldora Mountain Resort in Colorado; Boreal Mountain Resort and Soda Springs in the Lake Tahoe region of California; Mt. Bachelor in Oregon, and Snowbird in Utah. Included in the POWDR portfolio, is Stovepipe Wells located in Death Valley National Park and Zion Lodge located in Zion National Park, operated under a long-term concessions contract with the National Park Service. Its Woodward brand empowers and inspires the next generation of action sports enthusiasts throughsummer camps, mountain experiences, and mountain centers, incorporating dynamic programming and innovative environments at Woodward Park City in Utah,Woodward PA in Pennsylvania,Woodward Copper in Colorado, Woodward Tahoe in California. POWDR is headquartered in Park City, UT. For more information, please visit our website.