Job Summary
Job Title: Aquatics Lifeguard– Student Service
Division: Student Life
Department: RecWell
Compensation Hours/Week
$11.10/hour 10-12 hours preferred, 6 hours min. Monday - Friday
Required hours may include days, evenings, weekends, 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
Purdue University Lifeguards must meet the highest level of expectations and qualifications. We require a high degree of competency in skills, critical thinking, and knowledge. Lifeguards are required to prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. They do this by being vigilant, enforcing policies, maintaining skills and their fitness, maintaining certifications, responding appropriately to all emergencies, and keeping all users in the aquatic facilities safe.
Prerequisites
- American Red Cross Lifeguarding/First-Aid/CPR/AED r.24
- Strong swimming skills
If you don't have the lifeguard certification yet please apply anyway. We offer reduced priced ($50) opportunities to acquire the required certification.
Essential Functions
- Emergency response
- Policy education and enforcement
- Emergency preparedness & risk mitigation
- Facility management
- Space allocation & resource management
Core Competencies
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.
Communication (Verbal, Written, Non-Verbal, Listen & Observe, Summarize & Distill Information)
• Demonstrate professional verbal communication in all interactions
• Demonstrate enthusiasm; engage and connect with customers to promote excellent customer experience
• Verbally communicates to staff on situations that may arise due to problems
• Written communication to complete accurate records according to established procedures
Ways of Thinking (Systems Thinking & Planning, Reflective & Analytical Reasoning, Idea Generation, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Ethics)
• Utilize policies and knowledge to proactively make decisions and solve problems for area assigned
• Develop new or novel ideas through critical thinking and creative processes that address issues and/or lead to change
• Understand standards and expectations for personal and professional ethical behavior
• Demonstrate knowledge of the position and operation
Collaboration (Organization Behavior & Teamwork, Appropriate & Productive Relationships, Helping Others & Working Together, Cultural Intelligence & Inclusion, Service & Social Responsibility)
• 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
Self-Awareness (Self-Understanding, Continuous Learning, Initiative & Follow-Through, Personal Responsibility, Resiliency)
• Demonstrate time management skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrate initiative; Understand and respond to the various needs of customers and staff
• Maintain positive attitude and enthusiasm in times of ambiguity and peak time of demand
• Complete work independently in an efficient time manner
• Demonstrate dependability and responsibility within operation
• Demonstrate punctuality by always being on time to each shift