Job title: Dance Instructor, South Bellevue Community Center
Company: City of Bellevue
Job description: Come Join the City of Bellevue!
Please fill out your application as fully as possible. The City evaluates candidates based on the information provided in the online application only. Do not submit resumes and cover letters. Read the "Hiring Process" section below to learn more.
Job Summary
Bellevue Parks & Community Services is seeking an experienced and dependable Dance Instructor to teach specialized dance classes at the South Bellevue Community Center (SBCC). Disciplines may include, but are not limited to: hip-hop, jazz, ballet, and cheer. SBCC instructors need to be mature, knowledgeable, skilled, motivated, and dynamic individuals that enjoy teaching dance to primarily new and inexperienced youth dancers. This position reports directly to the SBCC Program Coordinator.
Working Schedule: Hours may vary and may require weekends, evenings, and holidays.
City Council Vision Statement:
Bellevue welcomes the world. Our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting our past.
Bellevue Parks & Community Services Vision:
In Bellevue everyone can connect to each other and to nature through experiences that help them to live, grow, and thrive.
Bellevue Parks & Community Services Mission:
We build a healthy community through an integrated system of exceptional parks, natural areas, recreation, arts and culture, and a broad base of community services.
Bellevue Parks & Community Services Equity Statement: A System of Fairness
Equity acknowledges and removes disparities in opportunities, power, and resources so that everyone can reach their full potential to thrive. Bellevue Parks & Community Services practices equity, which is the responsibility of every individual in the department. Equitable access is a right, not a privilege, and is fundamental to our mission of serving all people. Through equitable policies and practices, we cultivate ties that connect people to the fabric of our community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in developing program curriculum, lesson plans, and determine teaching standards.
- Ensure policies and procedures are followed; maintain and enforce safety standards.
- Monitor safety practices: remedy or report unsafe practices or conditions immediately.
- Provide safe and quality experiences to participants in all dance programs.
- Teach and instruct participants; interact with program participants and provide guidance.
- Determine participant skill level; adjust instruction as needed.
- Supervise classroom/activity; maintain and secure class rosters.
- Ensure proper use, care, and storage of any program equipment.
- Respond to community and participant inquiries and concerns; provide information about parks, recreation and community services programs, activities, and services.
Supervision Received and Exercised:
Typically receives general direction from a supervisor, but frequently sets their own work objectives.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of program characteristics, theories, and practices.
- Knowledge of safety guidelines and practices.
- Skill in handling conflict and in dealing with emergency situations.
- Skill in working with diverse groups of people in a tactful, effective, and respectful manner.
- Skill in solving problems and in using tact, patience and courtesy when working with others.
- Skill in providing customer service in a busy environment and in handling multiple tasks.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with staff, the community and program participants.
- Ability to communicate in an articulate and informative manner.
- Ability to provide clear instructions, written and verbal.
- Ability to work various schedules including mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends and holidays.
Education, Experience, and Other Requirements
- Must have adequate dance instruction experience as documented in resume.
- One year of experience teaching or leading groups preferred.
- High school diploma or GED required; college-level course work preferred.
- Dance certifications preferred.
- Or any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- First Aid, CPR or similar certification or training may be required for some positions.
- Valid driver's license may be required for some positions.
Other
Physical Demands
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work involves moving, communicating, operating objects, tools or controls and reaching.
- Work may periodically require the employee to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, ramps and elevated grounds; as well as to traverse or move around to access and monitor equipment, and indoor and outdoor spaces.
- Vision abilities required by this job may include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.'
- The employee may be required to transport, position, install and/or move objects up to 25 pounds.
- The noise level is relative to the work environment and may be quiet while in the office or moderately loud in a gym.
- Job environment may be indoors and/or outdoors and may involve working in inclement weather.
Definition of a Variable Employee:
- Average weekly hours cannot be determined at date of hire
- Hours may vary from week to week and are anticipated to be 28 hours per week or less
- NOTE: Will be considered full-time and eligible for medical coverage if hours average 30 hours per week or more over a 12-month measurement period (or 130 hours per month)
Hiring Process: Only electronic applications are accepted.
To evaluate all candidates fairly and equitably, the City will make all applicants anonymous when we are screening the applications. We will redact information from our application such as your name, address, and other demographics. To help us, please complete the online application form as fully as possible. We do not accept resumes and cover letters.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
- All candidates will be required to establish employment authorization and identity at the time of hire. The City is not able to sponsor work visas.
- All positions the completion of references checks, including at least one prior supervisor.
- Some positions may require completion of a criminal background check prior to start employment
- Some positions may require obtaining a commercial driver's license (CDL), licensures, or additional certifications.
The City of Bellevue values diversity in its workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, marital status, genetic information, veteran's status, disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local laws.
At the City of Bellevue, you'll be part of a team committed to providing exceptional customer service, upholding the public interest and advancing the community vision. The five essential and enduring principles that guide our individual actions, our interactions, and our decision making in the City of Bellevue organization is: exceptional public service, stewardship, committee to employees, integrity, and innovation. You'll work in an environment that is innovative, collaborative, future focused, and committed to excellence. Bellevue welcomes the world. Our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting our past. It's what makes the City of Bellevue an exciting place to work, live, and explore.
Have we piqued your interest yet? Come join our team! The City of Bellevue supports workplace diversity. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. Persons needing assistance with the application process may call the Human Resources Office at 425-452-6838 or . If you are invited to participate in the selection process and need ADA accommodations, please notify HR before you are scheduled for an interview or testing.
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Expected salary: $23.35 - 32.22 per hour
Location: Bellevue, WA
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