Recreation Specialist - Lake Parks Administration
City of Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Prairie, Texas United States
Posted: Jul 19, 2025
Salary: $17.82 - $25.47 Hourly USD
Full Time
Parks and Recreation
Job Summary
Join the City of Grand Prairie and help bring our recreation centers and special events to life! We're looking for an enthusiastic team member to help in engaging activities, coordinate events, and support daily operations-all while creating memorable experiences for our community. This role offers the opportunity to plan, organize, and promote events, work with the public, and step up as a great team member when needed. If you’re passionate about community engagement and ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
Essential Job Functions
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.
This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 20-50 pounds on occasion.
Lake Parks Duties:
Special Events Essential Duties:
Recreation Center Essential Duties:
Minimum Qualifications
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 8/1/2025 5:00 PM Central
Join the City of Grand Prairie and help bring our recreation centers and special events to life! We're looking for an enthusiastic team member to help in engaging activities, coordinate events, and support daily operations-all while creating memorable experiences for our community. This role offers the opportunity to plan, organize, and promote events, work with the public, and step up as a great team member when needed. If you’re passionate about community engagement and ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
Essential Job Functions
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.
This position has responsibilities that require lifting up to 20-50 pounds on occasion.
Lake Parks Duties:
- Volunteer Coordinator - maintains volunteer agreement files including signed agreements and background checks for HR, monthly volunteer schedules, monthly volunteer meetings
- Monitors and maintains inventory of Camp Store with weekly purchases, coordinating with food/beverage/ice/firewood delivered to store, updating and maintaining rental agreements for canoes/kayaks/yard games/golf carts
- Creates and publishes monthly newsletter for volunteers and patrons of Loyd Park showing events and news about the park
- Assist with annual fall Forest of Fear event by scheduling event, award purchases, assisting with flyers/marketing piece
- Maintains Lake Parks Mobile App by modifying, updating information in Loyd Park mobile app
- Shared Duties with Executive Assistant include but are not limited to: Daily deposits, Cabin/Lodge/Loyd House/Pavilion Rental Agreements, Assisting customers with online account set up if needed
Special Events Essential Duties:
- Coordinates set-up, operation, and tear down of events and helps to facilitate in all operational aspects during the duration of events.
- Assists in supervision of special events by maintaining a safe environment for the public.
- Performs office duties by maintaining report program worksheets daily; developing flyers, profit, and loss reports; scheduling hours for volunteers and part time workers; inputting data into the computer.
- Assists the Special Event Manager in interacting with employees and the public, answering inquiries, addressing complaints and grievances, responding to emergency issues and assisting patrons.
- Provides customer service to internal and external customers by responding to requests in a timely and professional manner.
- Promotes public relations by speaking to schools, groups, organizations, parents, members and participants about programs and the needs of the community.
- Maintains reports of incident and accidents that may occur.
- Monitors events and maintains inventory of equipment and supplies for the special event division.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.
Recreation Center Essential Duties:
- Coordinates recreation center lessons and other classes by scheduling classes and instructors; advertising classes; supervising classes; and teaching classes.
- Assists in supervision of the facility by maintaining a safe environment for the public; supervising part-time and seasonal instructors in programs, leagues, or classes and communicating with youth participants' parents.
- Performs office duties by maintaining report program worksheets daily; developing flyers, profit, and loss reports; scheduling work hours for part-time employees; assisting in overseeing programs and reservation scheduling; inputting data into the computer.
- Assists the center supervisors in interacting with employees and the public, answering inquiries, addressing complaints and grievances, responding to emergency issues and assisting patrons.
- Provides customer service to internal and external customers by responding to requests in a timely and professional manner.
- Promotes public relations by speaking to schools, groups, organizations, parents, members and participants about programs and the needs of the community.
- Performs first aid, CPR or advanced lifesaving techniques as needed and maintains reports of incident and accidents that may occur.
- Monitors and inspects the facility; maintains inventory of equipment and supplies for the recreation center.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.
Minimum Qualifications
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Experience: 1 year of related experience.
- Licenses: Valid Driver's License required.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 8/1/2025 5:00 PM Central
City of Grand Prairie
Welcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!
We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
team!
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