Recreation Program Coordinator

**Requisition Number**:2025-51

**Posted**:June 13, 2025

**Position Type**:Permanent, full-time

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Hours**:35 hrs/week, including evenings and weekends

**Salary**:$71,936 to $81,746 per year (depending on experience and qualifications)

**Number of Vacancies**:1

**Saugeen Shores: Both city and town, wrapped in a village.**
Choosing to work and live in Saugeen Shores gives you an unparalleled choice of easy-going lifestyles, economic opportunities and nature at every turn. You can truly create your own village in this growing, diverse community of neighbourhoods and amenities. You can replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides. You can choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be. You can make all these great choices without sacrificing family life, schools, and even access to the wide world. Nestled on the shores of Lake Huron with forests and farms all around, Saugeen Shores is the promise of both cities and towns, wrapped in a village.

**The Team**:
We take our team-first culture so seriously; we wrote a Team Saugeen Charter to celebrate and protect it. Our shared role is to keep Saugeen Shores safe, well-serviced, growing and vibrant in ways that respect the public and reflect our team. We develop careers from the inside first. We engage each other personally and professionally. We welcome change. we embrace new ideas. We do more than live with work processes; we seek to continuously improve them. And we have each other's backs - because that is what great teams do.

**What we offer you**:
- 10 paid personal days in addition to a generous number of vacation days per year.
- Comprehensive extended health and dental benefits, including an Employee and Family Assistance Plan.
- Enrollment in the OMERS pension plan.
- Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- A passion for investing in our workforce through continuous learning and development.

**About the Role**:
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with progressively responsible experience in recreation programming to join our team. As the Recreation Program Coordinator, reporting to the Wellness and Program Supervisor, you are responsible for assisting in the development, planning, implementation and service delivery of Dryland Recreation programs, including administration functions for registered instructional programs, drop in programming, and special events. In addition, you are responsible for providing strong leadership, motivation, scheduling and day to day direction to part-time recreation programming staff and volunteers.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop, plan, implement and evaluate recreation programming including: registered dryland programs and classes (drop-in programs, schedules); day and specialty camps, including summer campprograms; seasonal or specialty programs; rental packages and opportunities and birthday party packages
- Ensure all the necessary tools and resources are in place to ensure program goals are accomplished.
- Coordinates the delivery of recreation programs to accommodate all ages, skills levels and needs.
- Communicate and collaborate with team members from the AWC, Community Services Department and Town departments when necessary to achieve goals.
- Coordinate internal special events through planning, delivery, and evaluation such as quarterly themed community days.
- Maintain awareness of best practices, trends and innovations in recreation programming and delivery.
- Assist Wellness and Program Supervisor in conducting needs assessments or surveys to support program planning and identify needs
- Maintain an inventory of supplies and equipment for specified programs.
- Maintain and build positive partnerships with internal and external customers and community organizations and respond to any inquiries and concerns.
- Maintain records including daily logs, participation numbers. Compiles statistics and reports relating to recreation programming.
- Ensure program compliance with all municipal and other agency laws and regulations.
- Develop programming plans that provide modifications that support inclusive or adapted participation.
- Implement strategies and programs to support inclusive participation in programs and camps.
- Directly supervise or instruct programs, as required

**Competencies and skills you bring to the role**:
**Adaptability**: You can adapt efficiently and effectively in response to new processes and changing circumstances.- **Communication**:You have proven ability to communicate successfully and confidently both verbally and in writing. You have advanced computer literacy with Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and web-based programs.
- **Confidentialty**:You can handle matters of a confidential or politically sensitive nature, and to maintain confidentiality.
- **Customer Service**:You have strong customer service skills to deal courteously and effectively with tenants, contractors, public and staff.
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