Job Opening: Assistant Pro, Philadelphia

Posted June 12, 2014

Assistant Squash Professional  / The Philadelphia Cricket Club  

Job Description:                                                     


The Assistant Squash Professional  (“Assistant Pro”) shall report to and work under the direction of the PCC Director of Squash.

The Assistant Pro shall make themselves available up to six days per week during the squash season, which runs from September 1 through April 30, and as many as five days per week from May through the last day of August.

The Assistant Pro is compensated through base salary, private lessons, clinics, squad training, and tournament coaching.  Participants in clinics, squad training, and tournaments must be members of the Philadelphia Cricket Club to avoid conflicts of interest.  The Assistant Pro shall receive health, dental, vacation, and retirement benefits as per the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s employee benefits policy.

The scope of the Assistant Pro’s duties may include any of the following:
   
Teach the basic techniques of squash to beginners and impart progressively more advanced technical information to players as they improve.  Technical information should be consistent with the approach taken by the Director of Squash and other teaching pros at PCC.

Teach the rules of squash to both adult and junior players, with the goal of keeping the game as safe and as fair as possible given the nature of the game.

Teach clinics and training squads as assigned, with hourly rate of compensation set by the Director of Squash.

Teach quality, interesting private lessons.  Reserve court for lesson in advance. Enter billing data in the PCC system the same day lesson is taught. 

Attend tournament events as needed and coach PCC players under the guidelines set forth by the Director of Squash and Junior Squash Committee.

Write and edit articles for the PCC Bulletin, PCC Squash Blog, and other written materials in collaboration with the Director of Squash.

Help with the Squash Shop as needed. Be friendly towards the Club’s members. Teach members how to use the Club’s website to reserve courts . 

Play with the members in friendly social games if invited to do so.

Dress in accordance with the PCC all-white attire dress code and enforce mandatory eyewear rules.

Be familiar with and act in accordance with policies of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, including work rules relating to alcohol, substance abuse, language, etc.


Kevin Kleinschmidt
Director of Human Resources
The Philadelphia Cricket Club
kkleinschmidt@philacricket.com
215-754-0046   





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