Aquatics Instructor/Lifeguard (Part-time) in New York, New York at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a settlement house founded in 1894 that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services—social, educational, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness—which significantly improve the lives of 16,000 people in need each year, ages 3 to 103, on the East Side of Manhattan. Our clients include older adults, unhoused and formerly unhoused adults, children and families, disabled persons, adult learners and more. For more information on Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, please visit lenoxhill.org and check us out on Facebook or Instagram.

The Fitness and Aquatics department is responsible for providing high-quality fitness and aquatics programming for clients across our settlement house programs in our state-of-the-art facilities in our historic headquarters located at 331 East 70th Street which includes our swimming pool, gymnasium and fitness center. Reporting directly to the Fitness and Aquatics Manager, the Aquatics Instructor/Lifeguard will be an integral member of the Fitness and Aquatics team and will have primarily responsibility for instructing and leading swim lessons for our preschool learners as well as ensuring the safety of our clients from both an operational as well as a programmatic perspective. We provide high-quality swim instruction, open swim hours and myriad other water aerobics and fitness related classes for clients ages 3 to 103.

Aquatics Instructor Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Lifeguard Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate for the part-time Aquatics Instructor/Lifeguard thrives in a highly social and busy community setting and is committed to working with the community and supporting the health and safety of our clients. American Red Cross certificates (or equivalent certifications) in Lifeguarding (deep water), Water Safety Instruction (WSI), CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Responding to Emergencies and First Aid, as well as at least one year of professional swim instruction and lifeguarding experience, required. Experience teaching swimming lessons and instruction to youth preferred. The Aquatics Instructor/Lifeguard will work 10 hours per week, Monday through Friday from the hours of 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. daily. Spanish fluency is ideal. This position is anticipated to be needed during the course of our school year through June 2027. Changes to schedules are subject to the programmatic and operational needs of our community based services.

Salary: $29.61/hour

What we Offer:

All individuals, as a condition for employment by Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, are required to undergo a pre-employment background check. Certain positions require more extensive background checks to comply with applicable laws.

At Lenox Hill Neighborhood House we value respect, diversity and integrity. We are an equal opportunity employer. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. The policy of equal employment opportunity (EEO) and anti-discrimination applies to all aspects of the relationship between Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and its colleagues.