Job Summary
Job Title: Recreation & Wellness Sport Programs Student Intern – Student Service
Division: Student Life
Department: Recreation & Wellness
Compensation Hours/Week
$15.00/hour Weekly average, approximately 20 hours per week
Required hours may include days, evenings, weekends, overnight hours and holidays
Employment Summary
The Division of Student Life is committed to making every experience at Purdue University a learning opportunity for students. Employment within our division provides you the opportunity to work with other great students and leaders. As part of your employment, we incorporate the Leadership and Professional Development Competencies and the Steps to Leaps Learning Pillars into your learning and performance management experience to ensure you are building the skills employers want.
Job Description
The primary role of the Sport Programs Student Intern position is program and operational support for the Sport Programs unit at RecWell. The goal of this position is to give students valuable real-world experience in a fast paced, but organized environment. The Sport Programs Student Intern work hours may be worked in any combination, at the discretion of the direct supervisor.
Position Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with professional staff to market, promote, and administer programmatic sport activities.
- Assist in the oversight of designated officiated, non-officiated, tournament sports, and special events.
- Assist in the recruitment, hiring, training, management, supervision, mentoring and evaluation of Sport Program student positions.
- Assist with the development, implementation, and facilitation of Sport Program trainings and meetings.
- Assist with the planning, organization, development, implementation, and facilitation of officials’ training.
- Collaborate with fellow staff to prepare, organize, coordinate, and execute semester registration periods, playoff brackets, intramural championship night events, esports programming and events, and management and support of sport club events, including mentoring officers in event planning.
- Support department safety and risk management standards through administrative tasks such as maintaining records, documenting incidents, tracking compliance requirements, communicating policy updates, and assisting with follow-up related to safety procedures.
- Coordinate and complete administrative upkeep of program and facility supplies by monitoring inventory levels, organizing supply storage areas, documenting supply needs, assisting with ordering and purchasing processes, tracking equipment and material usage, and communicating supply-related updates or concerns to professional staff.
- Respond to emergency situations by prioritizing responsibilities appropriately while maintaining a high level of customer service.
- Maintain confidentiality and demonstrate professional conduct when accessing, handling, or communicating sensitive information.
- Other duties as assigned
Position Responsibilities
Qualifications
- Knowledgeable in intramural, esports, and club program operations with some experience in student service positions.
- High school diploma or equivalent and minimum of one semester of college coursework successfully completed
- Must be actively enrolled at Purdue University or Purdue Global
- Previous work experience within sports programming preferred
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Flexible and dependable with a strong attention to detail
- Problem solving, logic and reasoning skills
- Customer service oriented
- Ability to multi-task and work within deadlines
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Be timely and organized
Core Competencies
Transferable Skill Development:
Students employed in this role will develop and demonstrate a number of transferable skills essential for future employment success and be reviewed on these skills in their performance evaluation.
- Demonstrate professional verbal and written communication in all interactions
- Demonstrate enthusiasm; engage and connect with customers to promote excellent customer experience
- Develop new or novel ideas through critical thinking and creative processes that further reach and impact
- Understand standards and expectations for personal and professional ethical behavior
- Working together with co-workers and demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced, team atmosphere
- Establish productive relationships with customers and staff
- Acknowledge and support customers and staff with unique needs and differing backgrounds
- Work independently to complete responsibilities
- Proactively and willingly acquires new skills, tasks, procedures and projects
- Provide support to fellow team members
- Demonstrate initiative, time management skills, and attention to detail
- Complete work independently in an efficient time manner
- Demonstrate dependability and responsibility within operation
- Demonstrate punctuality by always being on time to each shift
Employee Class
Student
Benefits Eligibility
NO
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt