Swim Guide Assistant

Who We Are

V3 Sports is a nonprofit located in vibrant North Minneapolis, focused on elevating our community through wellness, fitness, and education! Thanks to our amazing partners, donors, and incredible community members, we have been making waves in Minneapolis, serving over a thousand families since 2007.

Why You'll Love Working Here

Founded as a non-profit in 2007, the mission of V3 Sports mission is to elevate our community through wellness, fitness and education. In 2024, V3 Sports opened Phase One of the V3 Center, a 40,000 square foot health and wellness center that will grow to be a North Minneapolis community asset and a regional destination. The focus of Phase One is to provide a place for Northside residents of all ages to access water, state of the art fitness equipment, physical rehabilitation and enjoy healthy and delicious food offerings. Phase Two, which V3 Sports is actively fundraising for, will be a regional destination for sporting events, career fairs, community events, and other drivers of economic stability. At the V3 Center, Northside young people and families will access programming that supports their career and economic aspirations and builds the skills they need to make their dreams reality.

Wage and Benefits

$17.00 per hour; This position is not eligible for benefits except for accrual of Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave.

Schedule

This position works during normal business hours and the schedule may vary between 6-25 hours per week.

A Typical Day in the Life...

A typical day as V3 Sports's Swim Guide Assistant provides an opportunity to be in the pool with Swim to Learn participants, following the lead of the Swim Guide, while gaining a more thorough understanding of the Swim to Learn Curriculum, and will include the following:

Program Delivery

• Providing hands-on, in-water demonstration & instruction to Swim to Learn participants under the direction of the Swim Guide.
• Maintaining a professional, mature, and positive teaching style.
• Encouraging participants to overcome challenges, build confidence, and enjoy the learning process.
• Maintaining a clean environment and managing equipment used by the program.

Training

• Continued learning through feedback, scheduled staff training sessions and workshops.

Who You Are

• You have knowledge of and experience with diverse groups of people of all socioeconomic conditions.
• You have competent swimming abilities.
• Your communication skills are strong, and you can effectively manage multiple priorities.
• You can maintain a good working relationship with all co-workers and the public.
• You are confident in your ability to use good judgment in recognizing the scope of authority.
• You can travel to sites within a 15-mile radius of the office.

Diversity and open expression are fundamental to the work of V3 Sports. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working environment where everyone can belong. Every member of our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in our sector: individuals who identify as BIPOC, Indigenous or people of culture, LGBTQI+ and gender fluid or gender nonconforming, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, people of any age or family status. We value the contributions of a diverse workforce, and we welcome and encourage applications from all underrepresented groups. We encourage you to apply even if you feel like you don't fit 100% of the technical requirements.

Equal Opportunity Employer: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, disability, marital status, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, genetic information or a protected veteran's status.

Our organization has a partnership with Metropolitan Alliance of Connected Communities (MACC) to provide administrative services including management of the recruiting process. If you apply for this position, you may see references to MACC in some online materials.

V3 Sports participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. See E-Verify's official poster at https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf. See E-Verify's Right to Work poster at https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf.