Head Lifeguard
Part Time • Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
About For Oak Cliff:
For Oak Cliff (FOC) provides culturally responsive programming to liberate South Oak Cliff from systemic oppression by creating a culture of education and improving social mobility and social capital. We accomplish our mission in partnership with our community through our four pillars: Education, Arts, Community Building, and Advocacy.
Role Summary:
For Oak Cliff’s Head Lifeguard will supervise and support the operations of swimming activities at the pool and ensure that policies, guidelines, and safety procedures are followed.
Job Responsibilities:
- Filling in for Aquatics Manager when out or unable to perform duties, preventing and responding to emergencies, and ensuring the aquatics emergency action plan is properly followed.
- Supervising staff: Support the Aquatics Manager with training and evaluating lifeguard performance.
- Managing the facility: Support the Aquatics Manager with operating the pool and aquatics facility, providing oversight of lifeguard’s opening and closing procedures, ensuring cleanliness, and upkeep of FOC assets.
- Supervising safety: Teaching water safety instruction to parents and guests in aquatics.
- Maintaining records: Documenting water quality and chemical balance, and adding chemicals as needed and logging program attendance.
- Assisting patrons: Explaining rules and procedures to pool users, and reporting injuries and accidents.
- Supporting events: Represent FOC and assist with or supervise special events.
- Supervises swimming activities at the pool and ensures that policies, guidelines, and safety procedures are followed.
- Warns swimmers of improper activities or danger and enforces pool regulations and water safety policies.
- Administers first aid in the event of injury, rescues swimmers in distress or danger of drowning, and administers CPR and/or artificial respiration, if necessary.
- Evaluates conditions for safety and initiates aquatics emergency action plan as required.
- Inspects pool facilities, equipment, and water to ensure that they are safe and usable.
- Supervises and assists in cleaning the pool and related facilities and equipment, assists with chlorine residual water tests and with records and charts of water tests and records of accidents and adds chemicals to pool water as directed.
- Instructs or assists classes in fundamentals of swimming as needed.
- Resolves scheduling conflicts to ensure a safe pool environment when competing programs/priorities require the use of pool facilities.
Job Requirements:
- Must be 16 years of age.
- Current American Red Cross Lifeguard certification or the ability to obtain such by the end date of seasonal employee orientation. If required certifications are not obtained by the end date of seasonal employee orientation, candidates must attend the next available certification course before reporting to assigned work location.
- Students must pass a pre-course swimming skills test prior to taking lifeguarding courses. This includes a 300-yard swim using front crawl or breaststroke, a 2-minute tread using legs only and the ability to retrieve a 10-pound dive weight from 7 ft deep, surface and swim 20 yds with the weight, using legs only and exit the pool without using a ladder within 100 seconds.
Physical Requirements:
- Must have adequate sight and hearing to perform safety protocols and properly interpret water analysis, equipment readings, and complete recordkeeping.
- Physically able to perform all aspects of cleaning, checking, and monitoring pool chemistry (training is available).
- Required to perform moderate physical work and lift/carry up to 50lbs at a time.
- Subject to minor injuries when conducting and participating in aquatics activities.
- May require long periods of standing, walking, bending, twisting, reaching, squatting, carrying, dragging, holding, pulling, pushing and lifting when setting up and conducting aquatics activities in all weather conditions.
Supplemental Information
- Ability to work varying shifts including weekdays, evenings, and weekends.
Compensation: $20.00 per hour
HOW WE STARTED.
Conceived out of necessity, For Oak Cliff got it's start in 2014 by Taylor Toynes and his W.W. Bushman fourth grade class. Toynes began teaching at Bushman Elementary in his hometown neighborhood of South Oak Cliff through Teach for America. While in the classroom, he saw that a majority of his students did not have school supplies, an issue that Toynes realized stemmed from the community’s extreme poverty.
That summer of 2015, Toynes organized with students, community members, and local organizations to host the inaugural Back To School Festival, a vessel to equip the community and students with the necessary supplies, resources, and service providers to have a successful school year. Over the past seven years, the festival has grown tremendously, helping serve over 4,000 students and parents each summer!
Since its inception, the festival is an annual staple event for For Oak Cliff, but is only a portion of the liberating work provided to the Superblock. In 2016, For Oak Cliff leased an office building in the black-owned Glendale Shopping Center, offering the community free GED classes, after-school tutoring, computer lab/wi-fi access, weekly food distribution, and an event space for rentals.
Most recently, For Oak Cliff took an even bigger step toward its mission and purchased a 20,000 sq. ft. building sitting atop 10-acres of land! Formerly the Moorland YMCA, it is now called the For Oak Cliff Community Campus - a safe space to expand our pillar-driven programming. Comprised of a 13-person staff, For Oak Cliff works to identify the pressing needs of the Superblock and curate solutions-driven programming and resources.
That summer of 2015, Toynes organized with students, community members, and local organizations to host the inaugural Back To School Festival, a vessel to equip the community and students with the necessary supplies, resources, and service providers to have a successful school year. Over the past seven years, the festival has grown tremendously, helping serve over 4,000 students and parents each summer!
Since its inception, the festival is an annual staple event for For Oak Cliff, but is only a portion of the liberating work provided to the Superblock. In 2016, For Oak Cliff leased an office building in the black-owned Glendale Shopping Center, offering the community free GED classes, after-school tutoring, computer lab/wi-fi access, weekly food distribution, and an event space for rentals.
Most recently, For Oak Cliff took an even bigger step toward its mission and purchased a 20,000 sq. ft. building sitting atop 10-acres of land! Formerly the Moorland YMCA, it is now called the For Oak Cliff Community Campus - a safe space to expand our pillar-driven programming. Comprised of a 13-person staff, For Oak Cliff works to identify the pressing needs of the Superblock and curate solutions-driven programming and resources.
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