GENERAL SUMMARY

Looking for a motivated, mature, and experienced, Certified Pilates Instructor to deliver safe, professional, and creative Pilates exercise instruction to meet our clients’ fitness goals. This position will provide group classes and private instruction on the reformer, tower, chair and mat.

Our Pilates Instructors are responsible for designing their own 55-minute classes and private sessions that inspire and challenge our clients. You will adhere to our hybrid “fitness style” brand of classical and contemporary Pilates whole body exercises, utilizing both large and small apparatus. You will also be responsible for achieving revenue and session goals while providing the highest level of customer service and hospitality to members, guests and associates.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS

• Maintain open availability for shift coverage midweek as well as one open weekend day each week.
• Provide top quality safe, creative, inviting and encouraging Pilates instruction, develop and deliver individual exercise programs based upon client's abilities, health, and goals.
• Conduct thorough fitness consultations and Pilates-based evaluations with new and existing clients.
• Recruit and maintain Pilates clients.
• Assist in the development, implementation and marketing of innovative private and small group training programs.
• Maintain accurate, current records on all client exercise programs and progress in the studio database MindBody.
• Conduct new member orientations, including instruction on proper use of Pilates equipment; offer assistance to members and guests.
• Responsible for maintaining client packages and unpaid visits.
• Actively assist in the maintenance and cleanliness of the Pilates studio, enforce studio policies.
• Active participation in events, programs, meetings and training.
• Represent the studio in a professional manner through image, dress, communication, and immediate follow-through and response.
• Schedule varies and will require weekend and holiday hours, days and evenings.
• Engage in continuing education, and maintain valid Pilates and CPR/AED certification.

Corporate Goals & Objectives

• Promote the company's safety goals and actively work towards ensuring a safe working environment
• Interpret and ensure compliance with company policies and procedures
• Actively further corporate objectives and continuously support improvement and positive change
• Make professional development a consistent priority

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary job function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

• Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, and sales techniques.
• Problem Anticipation/ Deductive Reasoning — Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong and then apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems and considers the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Written Comprehension and Expression — Ability to read, understand and communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Oral Comprehension and Expression —Ability to understand and communicate so others can understand ideas and information.
• Computer – Ability to develop and maintain computer records in Mindbody or any other studio database software.
• Well organized and detail oriented.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent customer service attitude and abilities.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

• Pilates trained and certified with reputable Pilates professional mentor or organization. Must be able to provide hard copy of valid certification.
• Current CPR/AED Certifications
• Minimum two (2) years fitness industry experience. Minimum 1 year Pilates apparatus instructor experience at reputable Pilates studio, with references.

WORKING CONDITIONS/ PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position deals with outside personnel such as clients on a regular basis with contact in various forms such as in person, phone and email.
• The location of the position changes occasionally from indoors to outdoors when site visits are necessary, or if required to teach outdoors. However, extreme environmental conditions do not exist.
• It is sometimes necessary to deal with unpleasant or angry people with the need to problem solve difficult situations.
• It is necessary to adapt to a frequently changing environment.
• Sitting and standing as needed.
• Use of hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasional lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• It is necessary for the position to travel independently to property locations on a regular basis.

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: Up to $75.00 per hour

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Required)
• Customer service: 1 year (Preferred)
• Group fitness: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• AED Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Napa, CA 94558 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Napa, CA 94558: Relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person