RECREATION OFFICERS
Recreation Officers plan, organise, and coordinate recreation facilities and programs.
These can range from sporting events and tournaments, school holiday programs, and arts and crafts activities.
Their tasks can include developing proposals applying for funding. finding venues, coordinating volunteers and running programs on the day.
Recreation officers also work with community groups to help them to develop their own skills in these areas. Recreation officers are often employed by community recreation centres and local councils.
Recreation officers may:
These can range from sporting events and tournaments, school holiday programs, and arts and crafts activities.
Their tasks can include developing proposals applying for funding. finding venues, coordinating volunteers and running programs on the day.
Recreation officers also work with community groups to help them to develop their own skills in these areas. Recreation officers are often employed by community recreation centres and local councils.
Recreation officers may:
- Plan, organise, and promote local sporting and recreational events and activities such as community functions, school holiday programs, cultural activities and sporting competitions.
- Develop and administer recreational policy Prepare and administer budgets and resource allocations
- Coordinate and arrange meetings and venues
- Recruit, train and supervise recreation leaders and volunteers
- Coordinate facilities and equipment purchasing and maintenance work with key members of the community
- Write proposals, evaluations, correspondence and prepare submissions and reports for government bodies and other agencies.
- Assist clients in identifying their recreational needs and encourage and support them to participate in activities suited to their needs and interests.
- Provide information on available resources within the local community Support, develop and evaluate strategies to encourage community participation in activities
- Monitor, evaluate and recommend changes to community development programs, polities. practices and budgets.
- Collect and analyse data associated with projects undertaken and report on project outcomes.
- Resolve problems concerning services or programs provided or persons affected.
- Advise senior management on matters requiring their attention and implement their decisions
- Liaise with various members of the community
- Provide information on available resources within the local community and from associated agencies
- Develop strategies that encourage community participation in recreational activities
- Collect and analyse data from projects and report on the project outcomes
- Advise management on matters requiring their attention and implement their decisions
