Job Functions: What you will do with us:

• Officiate games for participating youth; enforce rules and ensure the safety of participants and spectators.
• Ensure players compete in a fair, safe, and encouraging environment.
• Organize supplies and equipment.
• Assist participants with skill development and improvement; monitor progress.
• Prepare venue; inspect playing surface and/or equipment to ensure compliance with event and safety regulations.
• Maintain appropriate level of control, fairness, and consistency in all competitive situations; resolve conflicts with tact and diplomacy.
• Attend scheduled training or evaluation sessions.
• Keep proper records as necessary.
• Maintain effective and consistent communication with program participants, parents, and other staff.
• Create a positive and encouraging environment for participants in the program.
• Arrive on time in appropriate attire at scheduled sites.
• Clock-in and out using software operated by the City (Kronos).

Qualifications: What you will need to be considered:

• Must be 16 years of age or older.
• Knowledge of soccer, volleyball, flag football, and/or cross country is required.
• Prior experience providing instruction in fundamentals and skill development and/or in officiating games desirable.
• Enjoy working with children.
• Be responsible, dependable, and punctual, and have a high degree of maturity.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to make quick and sound decisions and to understand, carry out, and provide written and oral directions and instructions.
• Be safety conscious and able to enforce safety rules and regulations.
• Physical ability to lift/carry materials and repeatedly and quickly traverse the field to monitor play.
• CPR/AED and First Aid certification preferred (may be obtained through the City upon hire).
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and to deal with children, parents, coaches, and other staff in a positive, reassuring, courteous, and professional manner.
• Demonstrated commitment to providing a safe and fun atmosphere for participants, coaches, and spectators of youth programs.
• Or any acceptable equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Additional Information: Interested applicants must submit an online application to be considered.

This is a continuous recruitment; review of applications will begin immediately. Prompt application is highly encouraged for best consideration. Positions will remain open until filled; however, the recruitment will close without notice when a sufficient number of qualified applications are received or all hiring decisions have been made.

Successful candidates will be subject to a background check and drug/alcohol screening. The City has established an alcohol-free, drug-free, and smoke-free workplace which applies to any person employed by, conducting business with, or applying for a position with the City. Each employee, as a condition of their employment, may be required to participate in pre-employment and reasonable suspicion testing. Employees classified as safety sensitive are also subject to immediate post accident and random testing.

For more information about the position, contact the Sports Team at sports@gaithersburgmd.gov or 301.258.6350. Questions regarding the online application process may be directed to the Department of Human Resources at hr@gaithersburgmd.gov or 301.258.6327.

This recruitment will establish an eligibility list which will be used to fill current vacancies and may be used to fill other openings in this classification which occur in the next 6 months.