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We’re Hiring!

If you’re interested in one of our open positions, start by applying here and attaching your resume.

Do you:

  • love teaching?
  • have a passion for developing lifetime aquatic skills?
  • have a passion for water safety and saving lives?

Become a Buckeye Swim School Instructor!

Some of the benefits of becoming a Buckeye Swim School Instructor include:

A focused, benchmark-based curriculum. If you’ve never taught swimming before, you’ll appreciate the simplicity of having only two well-defined performance benchmarks for your students at each program level. You don’t have to memorize checklists of skills – just lead your students through learning activities with the objective of performing the benchmark. It’s that simple. If you have taught swimming before, you’ll be excited about the effectiveness of the teaching methods as well as the benchmark approach.

The opportunity to make a difference. This facility is an authorized provider of Starfish Aquatics Institute (SAI), a leading aquatic training and water safety organization. The SAI tagline is “Saving Lives One at A Time”. In most age groups, more children die because of drowning than fire, poison, violence, head injury – concerns that receive much more public attention.

All training is provided at no cost to our staff!

Duties & Responsibilities: (Including but not limited to)

  • Attend, participate and pass all required training courses
  • Organize and Instruct Swim Classes in accordance to the Starfish
  • Aquatics Institute and Buckeye Swim School curriculum and standards
  • Provides a safe and clean environment for all students
  • Role model for other instructors and students
  • Creating and maintaining lesson plans for each class / student
  • Setup / cleanup for each class
  • Maintain and issue progress reports
  • Maintain all swim lesson supplies, toys, etc.
  • Wear required uniform, displaying professionalism at all times
  • Friendly and welcoming attitude for all swimmers and parents
  • Follow up with parents before or after lessons to provide progress report
  • Be familiar with and able to perform welcome team responsibilities (our welcome team greets swimmers ans families as they arrive and helps swimmers get to and from their classes).

Minimum Age:

1-Star and 2-Star Instructors: 15 years old

3-Star Instructor-Trainers: 18 years old

Swim Instructor Levels –

1-Star Instructor:

  • Must be at least 15 years of age or older
  • Complete all online courses from the Starfish Aquatics Institute (SAI)
  • Attend, participate and pass in-person SAI course

2-Star Instructor: (Instructor)

Must be at least 15 years of age or older

  • Must have already obtained a 1-Star Instructor Certification
  • Must be an active 1-Star Instructor in good standing
  • Must have taught at least 20 hours of Starfish Swim School
  • Must have taught at least 20 hours of Starfish Stroke School
  • Must earn a teaching score of at least a 3.6 by a 3-Star Instructor / Instructor-Trainer

3-Star Instructor: (Instructor-Trainer)

  • Must be at least 18 years of age or older
  • Must have already obtained a 1-Star Instructor Certification
  • Must have already obtained a 2-Star Instructor Certification
  • Must be an active 2-Star Instructor in good standing
  • Must complete the Instructor Trainer Development Course (ITDC)
  • All 3-Star Instructors must teach swim lessons AND Instructor courses

Available Hours
Our school will be open Sunday through Thursday from 9am to 8pm, Friday mornings and Saturdays 9a-12:30-we can accommodate most shift requests within our open hours. Staff must commit to a minimum of two hours per shift, with a preference given to those that can work at least 4 hours.

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