Adult Sailing Director

General Responsibilities

• Be a visible, active and enthusiastic proponent of Adult Sailing Programs, and all activities at the Club

• Develop, implement and supervise all facets for the Club’s Adult Sailing Program and its curriculum

• Assist Waterfront Director with the setup, breakdown, and maintenance of the Adult Sailing Program’s fleet of boats

Group Classes

• Creating and implementing adult sailing curriculum for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level cruising and racing classes during the summer season

• Offering, teaching, and coordinating instructors for group sailing classes throughout the summer season

• Hiring any necessary staff for the summer season (and basing hiring decisions off of predicted needs)

• Recording attendance stats and coordinating billing for group classes

Private Lessons

• Offering, teaching, and coordinating instructors for private sailing lessons throughout the season

• Coordinating keelboat availability between junior sailing, private lessons and charters

• Recording attendance stats and coordinating billing for private lessons

Keelboat Charters

• Coordinating keelboat charters

• Maintaining online boat reservation system

• Responding to emails with charter questions

• Coordinating rigging help when needed

• Coordinating billing for keelboat charters

On-Shore Education & Off-Season Planning

• Scheduling and booking summer speaker series, on shore education component of ASP

• Brainstorming areas for improvement and new programming

• Brainstorming ways for continued outreach to membership at large (ex. Creating fleet e-mail lists for easy communication amongst fleets at EYC)

• Coordinate with fleet captains to create educational and social opportunities for each fleet on the water as requested

Web Development & Office Responsibilities

• Assisting Waterfront Director with maintenance and updates on “Waterfront” section of edgartownyc.org

• Building adult sailing group class registration on website

• Maintaining & updating adult sailing portion of edgartownyc.org

• Maintain and update fleet pages as deemed necessary by fleet captains

• Supporting Race Committee and Race Coordinator with web assistance, regatta page updates

• Answering e-mails from club members in regards to programming, class schedules, and lesson coordination

• Documenting attendance and keeping statistics for all classes, private lessons and keel boat charters and comparing year to year data

• Presenting year to year data on member involvement and department income & expenses to committee chairs

• Maintaining Adult Sailing cork board on Anchor Deck with sailing opportunities and on-shore education, and general member outreach