Recreation Aide Resume

A recreation aide works in a park, community center, private recreation center, and hospital. He takes care of recreational equipment, arranges small workshops for learning new skills for members, assists in organizing social events, and handles routine office duties. With a community center, he makes purchase and keeps record of soccer balls, and other sports equipment. As sports and recreation clubs have children, adult, and elderly people as their members, the recreation aide has to plan activities suitable with the age of members. In short, the job also requires the aides to assist in organizing and monitoring activities such as sports, outdoor camps, drama, music concerts, and organizing tournaments.

Since the job is about meeting, interacting, and working with people of different age, excellent communication and interpersonal skills are the first thing required for the job. A job application for this position has to promote the candidate as a creative person in planning, organizing, and conducting recreational activities.

Recreation Aide Resume Example

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Edgar E. Cookson

4832 Linda Street
Philadelphia, PA 19108
Phone: 267-915-7131
Email: eecookson@freemail.com

Career Objective:

Looking for a recreation aide position at “City Park,” to plan, organize, and conduct recreational activities for regular members and walk-in customers.

Summary of Skills:

• Remarkable customer service skills and an ability to develop good relationships with customers
• Excellent knowledge of varieties of sports and rules and regulations associated with them
• Experience in maintaining sport and garden equipment and tools
• Superb written and verbal communication skill
• Skilled in planning and organizing sports and recreational activities
• Ability to promote recreational events and do marketing for the recreational facility

Work Experience:

Recreation Aide
Lord's Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
October 2014 - Present

• Opening and cleaning the center daily and performing general maintenance duties
• Wiping and arranging tables, chairs, and other furniture to accommodate members and visitors
• Watering plants, maintaining garden, painting premises, and removing graffiti from the walls
• Greeting and sharing a friendly conversation with members and visitors
• Maintaining daily attendance register and collecting payments from patrons
• Enforcing safety rules and regulations and discipline inside the center

Recreation Aide
Rocky Recreation Center, Philadelphia, PA
July 2013 - September 2014

• Promoted events of the facility and improved amenities for attracting more footfall
• Developed and conducted several recreational activities for children, adult, and elderly people
• Demonstrated patrons and visitors on using equipment and provided safety tips
• Handled inventory of the center and made purchases as required
• Visited schools and colleges and invited them for study and fun tour
• Held educational workshop on importance of preserving environment

Education:

• High School Diploma
  Prudent School, Philadelphia, PA
  2011

• CPR Certification
  ABC Technical Institute, Philadelphia, PA
  2012

Reference:

On request.