Job Description

Job Location: Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center - Denver, CO 80246
Salary Range: $40.00 - $47.00 Hourly

This posting is for an 1099 Independent Contractor role, and is not a W-2 Employee position
Role and Responsibilities:
- Normal work hours:  varied to include nights, weekends, and holidays
- Ensuring that a safe and healthy environment exists for exercising, and keeping up-to-date on safety and fitness trends
- Arriving to teach class in advance of the scheduled time to greet participants, answer questions and address concerns
- Creating a class experience that shows your unique skills while adhering to the JCC Denver’s standards and guidelines
- Knowing the names of participants who attend your classes and sharing educational information with your class participants
- Teaching classes with energy and enthusiasm to motivate class participants to the best of your ability
- Noting new participants and sharing basic exercise information with them
- Reporting any equipment/facility problems to the management team
- Beginning and ending all classes on time
- Ensuring that class areas are clean and set according to procedures
- Completing assigned professional trainings and other duties as assigned

Qualifications
Basic

Qualifications
- Must be certified through ACE, ACSM, or other approved nationally accredited organization
- Must hold, or obtain as a condition of employment, a valid CPR and First-Aid Certification
- Ability to work positively with diverse populations, in groups and individually
- Must be well-organized and prepared to teach classes
- Must be able to think independently and develop routines for teaching specific exercise classes
Preferred

Qualifications:
- Prior successful experience teaching to a fitness/gym population
- 2+ years teaching experience preferred
Physical/Mental Requirements (ADA Compliance)
- Mental requirements include, but are not limited to, the ability to concentrate, take initiative, cope with stress, adapt to and stay alert in a business environment
- Able to demonstrate exercises relevant to class style, as is frequently required.
- Must be physically able to walk through the classroom freely in order to demo postures and transitions, monitor students' movements, and provide them with hands-on adjustments as needed and if desired by students.
- In order to perform the essential duties of the job, the employee must be able to speak, hear, see and walk more than 2 miles each day.
- Standing and sitting on the floor
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds