What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recreation Superintendent position at City of St. Cloud?
Join Our Team as a Recreation Superintendent
Department: Parks and Recreation
The City of St. Cloud is seeking a dedicated and experienced Recreation Superintendent to lead our efforts in providing engaging, inclusive, and high-quality recreation programs and events for our community. The purpose of this position is to ensure that the Recreation Department offers a diverse range of programs and activities for all ages—planned and implemented responsibly, creatively, and within the approved budget.
The ideal candidate will:
- Lead with accountability by ensuring programs, facilities, and staff operations meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and fiscal responsibility.
- Motivate through empowerment by providing leadership, encouragement, and guidance to a talented team of recreation professionals, inspiring them to reach their full potential.
- Embrace innovation by developing new and exciting programs that enhance community engagement and bring fresh ideas to the City’s recreation offerings.
- Demonstrate ownership by taking pride in creating positive experiences for our residents and visitors, ensuring our recreation facilities and programs reflect the spirit of St. Cloud.
Schedule: While the position generally follows a Monday through Friday schedule, the specific days and hours may vary depending on the time of year, events, programs, and activities. Flexibility is required, including availability for evening, weekend, and stand-by shifts as needed to support operations.
In this role, you will oversee the planning, coordination, and evaluation of recreation programs and special events; ensure facilities are safe and welcoming for employees and participants by promptly reporting and addressing issues; and uphold the City’s commitment to exceptional service and community well-being.
We sincerely appreciate the interest shown in our previous posting for this position; however, previous applicants need not apply.
Apply today and help shape the future of recreation in the City of St. Cloud.
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.
- Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
- Coordinates, assigns and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.
- Plans, promotes and implements a City-wide recreation program; responds to community needs in program planning and scheduling.
- Plans, develops, promotes, implements, and manages a successful array of recreation programs. Oversees the operation of, on and off-site recreation areas and activities, and serves as a liaison to clubs and committees.
- Provides advisory support and acts as liaison to other Departments, citizen committees, community agencies and schools to facilitate the delivery of recreation programs and services.
- Reviews the scheduling of classes, events and programs; evaluates programs and classes for their success and perceived value and continues to add new programming to departmental offerings.
- Researches trends and demographics and assesses community needs, usage fees, and project changes to plan strategically for the future.
- Visits and inspects programming sites to ensure the proper operation of programs and compliance with City policies, rules and regulations.
- Documents program participation, the performance of staff, the experience of budgeted funds, and compliance with policies and regulations through the maintenance of records and the filing of reports; reviews expenditure and revenue information from programs and classes for accuracy and performance.
- Determines strategies to develop and implement goals, objectives, policies and priorities for Recreation Division programs that will foster human development, health and wellness, safety and security, cultural unity and community identity.
- Prepares employee schedules and completes and verifies employee time sheets, accident/injury/incident reports of staff and participants; investigates instances of accidents, injury, misconduct or activity in violation of laws, rules or regulations, and administers discipline as appropriate.
- Performs related work as assigned.
Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Leisure Services, Recreation or related field, supplemented by five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in planning, organizing and directing activities in a municipal or county governmental agency.
Possession of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities may be considered.
Possession of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities may be considered.
Must possess and maintain a valid state Driver's License with an acceptable driving history.
Requires CPR and First Aid certification or able to obtain within six (6) months of employment.
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. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to move and remain stationary during long periods of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Employee must have the ability to work outdoors including intense or inclement weather conditions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Mathematics:
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Reasoning:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Salary : $33 - $47
