Seattle Yacht Club is now hiring Lead Instructors, Sailing Instructors, and Adult Instructors for summer 2023.
The Seattle Yacht Club Sailing School is a premier sailing program that serves hundreds of young sailors each summer. Our program mission is to promote sailing through safety, fun, and learning. Each summer, we hire an instructor team with a passion for sailing and teaching. The program launches from Seattle Yacht Club, and most of the sailing will take place on Portage Bay. Youth classes are Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4 pm, on the club’s dinghy fleet that includes Vanguard 15s, RS Fevas, Optimists, and Lasers. Four classes divided by participant age and size run simultaneously each week. Full program details can be found at http://www.seattleyachtclub.org/summer-sailing-school. Adult Classes run evenings three days a week for 6 weeks.
Responsibilities for all positions:
- Follow and enforce strict safety protocols
- Implement class programming for youth and/or adult classes of up to 15-25 participants on and off the water.
- Ensure Instructors and Junior Instructors have resources and are prepared to facilitate sailing instruction for beginning and intermediate youth sailors.
- Be forefront of fostering inclusive environment where youth, volunteers, and staff are physically and emotionally safe.
- Set example to participants and fellow instructors by being mature and proactive. This means helping with any job that keeps the program running smoothly, including tidying work area or picking up trash.
- Ensure classes run in timely manner.
- Mentor new Instructors and Junior Instructors on how to teach sailing, how to work with kids, and how Seattle Yacht Club’s program runs.
- Greet and communicate face-to-face with parents during participant check-in and checkout. - Monitor weather and conditions in location class will be sailing.
- Flexible to teach and lead several types of classes.
- Manage equipment inspections and fix or report damages to Sailing Office.
Please find full job descriptions and the application link on our Instructor Info page: https://seattleyachtclub.org/web/pages/sailing-school-instructor