Health & Wellness Recreation Manager - City of Liberty, MO : Job Details

Salary: Depends on Qualifications Location : Community Center: 1600 South Withers Road Job Type: Full-Time Job Number: 2025-00047 Department: Parks & Recreation Division: Health & Wellness Opening Date: 08/28/2025 Description We have a rare opportunity for a health and wellness professional to make a lasting impact on community health and employee well-being. The Health & Wellness Recreation Manager will lead our health and wellness programs, overseeing a small team of full-time health and wellness professionals and providing indirect support to part-time wellness coaches, personal trainers, and group exercise instructors. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for fitness, wellness, and community engagement who thrives on building programs and inspiring others to live healthier lives. At the City of Liberty, you'll be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to creating a healthier, stronger community. We offer a collaborative environment, opportunities for professional growth, healthy work-life balance, and the chance to truly make a difference. Benefits

• Competitive salary (commensurate with experience, but no less than $55,000/year)
• Generous paid time off (including vacation time, sick time and 11 paid holidays per year)
• FREE health, dental & vision insurance
• FREE retirement plan benefits
• FREE Community Center membership
• See 'Benefits' tab above for more information

Essential Functions

• Responsible for creating, planning, organizing and providing supervision & oversight for assigned recreation activities, services, facilities, special events, classes, and programs.
• Implements a customer service model that enhances positive communication and support for all customers, both internal and external.
• Recruits, trains, supervises and evaluates health and wellness staff and volunteers. This includes determining workloads and schedules, implementing and interpreting policies and procedures, effectively evaluating staff and making hiring and disciplinary recommendations.
• Coordinates the development of promotional materials for programs and events to attract volunteer, participant, and partnership involvement.
• Provides input into the development of annual budgets, including recommending staffing levels and equipment and supplies purchases; assists with fundraising campaigns and solicits sponsor and sponsorship packages as appropriate.
• Assists with member promotions, member retention efforts, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitors program activities, including approving expenditures and ensuring activities are running smoothly; responds to questions and complaints and manages recreate equipment and supply inventory.
• Develops schedules, registration processes and fees for recreation services.
• Conducts outreach and marketing activities with users, donors, sponsors and community groups and performs related work as required.
• Must provide member services including personal training, group exercise instruction, wellness coaching and more!
• Assist in driving business impact to positively affect community growth, change, and citizen satisfaction with their municipal team and services.
• Develops, coordinates, implements, supervises, monitors, evaluates and promotes diverse, outcomes-based recreational programs, activities and events to meet the community's needs.
• Promotes, plans, and coordinates a medically-integrated corporate wellness program at a variety of locations both on and off site, including meeting with public groups and organizations to explain and promote programs; schedules activities and programs designed to address identified health and wellness needs specific to each organization's population.
• Promotes, plans, and coordinates a medically-integrated corporate wellness program for the City of Liberty in cooperation with the Human Resources Department
• Establishes and maintains contacts with neighborhood groups, schools, businesses, law enforcement agencies, volunteers, and other community groups. Provides necessary coordination of services per partnership agreements.
• Works with the Assistant Director to analyze trends and evaluate changing community needs. Makes recommendations to improve operations and expand health and wellness program participation.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Principles and practices of employee supervision, including work planning, assignment and review and the training of staff in work procedures.
• Principles and practices of managing recreational programs for community parks, community centers, aquatic centers and/or athletic facilities.
• Professional written and verbal communication standards.
• Pertinent laws that affect assigned division and department.
• Professional customer experience skills in order to interact with a diverse population.
• Prepare and present ideas that support overall goals of the department and City.
• Work independently in the absence of supervision.
• Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of essential duties including operating and maintaining assigned equipment.
• Maintain mental capacity which permits satisfactory performance of essential functions including decision-making, communication, teamwork and positive customer/citizen interactions and experiences.
• Stay informed and educated of industry best practices and trends.
• Prepare clear and concise plans, reports, analyses and project updates and effectively present said information.
• Participate in the preparation and administration of department budget.
• Work under steady pressure with frequent interruptions.

Experience/Training/Licenses/Certifications

• Five years of increasingly responsible experience in recreational programming, business management, or a related field required.
• Must have a minimum of one year of lead or supervisory experience.
• Significant experience managing the delivery of outcomes-based community wellness programs and services preferred.
• Equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in recreation administration, physical education, exercise science, health & wellness community health, leisure services or a related field.
• National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) accredited credential or equivalent certification in personal training, group fitness instructor, or health coach, preferred.
  • If applying without above mentioned certification, one must be obtained within 6 months.
• Certification in CPR/AED and First Aid or the ability to become certified during a City sponsored CPR/AED First Aid course.

The City of Liberty adheres to a drug-free workplace as defined by federal law. In return for outstanding performance, the City of Liberty will provide you a compensation package unmatched in the public sector metro area. An example of compensation offered to full-time employees is:

• Generous health plans to choose from, including:
  • ZERO cost medical plan for employee and eligible family members and up to $2,400 in FREE HSA funds or
  • $3,492 yearly stipend if you choose medical coverage through another household member
  • FREE dental insurance for employees
  • FREE vision insurance for employees
• FREE employee life insurance with other life and ancillary benefit plans with low costs and high return on investments.
• FREE individual, or 70% discounted family, membership to the Community Center (up to a $725 total value)
• Membership into defined pension plan with earlier than average age retirement options & 0% employee contribution
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• 11 paid holidays every year plus generous vacation and sick accrual rates
• Incentive based wellness program - earn even more vacation hours!
• Flexible environment where our families come first
• Team and employee engagement through newsletters, competitions and lunches

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