What are the responsibilities and job description for the Activities and Events Manager position at The Bay Resort?
If you have a passion for growth, can be adaptable while on the job, and overall innovative Blue Water Development wants YOU! At Blue Water, we create an environment where our employees are engaged, empowered, and challenged to put the guest experience first. Blue Water Development Corporation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and is committed to making employment decisions based on merit. We are committed to complying with all Federal, State, and local laws providing for equal employment opportunities and all laws related to terms and conditions of employment.
Position Purpose:
The Activities Manager is responsible for overseeing the job duties performed by recreation staff on a day-to-day basis. Implements activities that are stimulating and engaging for our participants to meet individual care plan outcomes; including but not limited to inter-generational, music, arts, modified sports/exercise, and technology.
Essential Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Assist in planning, organizing, evaluating, and promoting the Department's programs and services
- Help prepare the Department's annual budget, maintain records and prepare reports for those activities to which assigned
- Create, implement, and evaluate social, recreational, and educational programs
- Produce a monthly activities calendar and newsletter to be followed by the team, and shared with participants and their caregivers
- Develop, manage and report on the recreation and activity budget monthly
- Ensure all documentation is completed promptly
- Conduct assessments for all new participants
- Responsible for leading teams throughout the execution of projects, activities, and excursions
- Responsible for facilitating all aspects of an activity program, from the planning of product and business development projects, up to production, launching, and post-launch evaluation
- Coach, counsel, recruit, train, and discipline employees
- Supervising and directing staff with any activities or events
- Ensures the property is clean, orderly, well-manicured, and guest-ready at all times
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Provides regular and reliable attendance
Success Factors:
- Must possess the ability to interact professionally and effectively within a teamwork-oriented setting, with staff, supervisors, and participants
- Must be proficient with standard technologies
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Develop cohorts of individuals to participate in full community inclusion that has similar interests, desires, and capabilities
- Create a community activity and integration program based upon the needs, preferences, and abilities of residents
- Ability to create, plan and manage activities effectively
- Extremely Energetic, approachable, and fit
Education & Experience:
- High school diploma or actively enrolled to achieve a degree
- Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant discipline (preferred)
- 3-5 years of work experience in recreation/ activities
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to stand; use hands and fingers, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The team member frequently is required to walk, occasionally hike, or engage in other outdoor activities with guests. The associate will also be involved in some pool activities, where he or she would need to know how to swim or balance themselves in the pool. The associate will regularly lift boxes of supplies weighing up to 50 pounds between locations and occasionally lift/move up or over 100 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth vision, and the ability to adjust and focus.