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Location Montclair, New Jersey

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divdivdivdivdivdivnbsp;link href="https://static.workforcenow.adp.com/mas/mdf-components/24.28.20/styles/froala_style.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" data-pasted="true"divdivspan style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"To proceed with your application for this position, please complete the Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment linked below. Ensure you finish the assessment for your application to be reviewed./span/divdivp style='margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"nbsp;/span/pp style='margin:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:15px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;'a href="https://assessment.predictiveindex.com/bo/5TQS/YMCA24-25" target="_blank"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"stronguBehavioral Assessment Link/u/strong/span/a/p/div/divh2 style='margin: 8pt 0in 4pt; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 21px; font-family: "Aptos Display", sans-serif; color: rgb(15, 71, 97); font-weight: normal;' data-pasted="true"strongspan style="font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"POSITION SUMMARY:/span/strong/h2p style="margin: 0in 29.15pt 0.0001pt 0in; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"The Head Lifeguard is responsible for providing leadership and supervision to the lifeguard team to ensure a safe, structured, and professional environment in the pools. This role supports daily operations by overseeing guard rotations, enforcing safety standards, assisting with staff scheduling needs, and serving as the point of contact when the Senior Director is not on deck. The Head Guard helps maintain a positive and efficient work environment while upholding YMCA policies and values./span/pp style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:29.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;text-align:justify;'br/pp style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:29.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;text-align:justify;'br/pp style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:29.15pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;text-align:justify;'span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"strongOUR CULTURE:/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0in 29.15pt 0.0001pt 0in; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5;"br/pp style="margin: 0.05pt 33.3pt 0.0001pt 0in; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; text-align: justify;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"At the YMCA of Montclair, we strive to be the strongEmployer of Choice/strong, provide strongWorld-Class Service,nbsp;/strongand be the strongCharity of Choice/strong. Our goal is to be a place where employees are empowered and excited to come to work. All staff ensure that members experience customer centric, individual attention each day. We strive to be the preferred partner collaborating with others, identifying, and meeting our community needs./span/pp style='margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:33.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'br/pp style='margin-top:.05pt;margin-right:33.3pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'br/pp style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;' data-pasted="true"strongspan style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:/span/strong/pp style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"br/pul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc"li style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Provide on-deck supervision and leadership to lifeguards during assigned shifts./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Ensure guards maintain vigilant surveillance, follow rotation schedules, and take breaks appropriately./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Monitor and reinforce cleanliness and readiness of the pool deck, guard stations, and equipment./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Lead responses to aquatic emergencies and incidents; complete and submit proper documentation./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Serve as the primary point of contact during evening and peak hours for both staff and members./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Assist with shift coverage coordination and communicate staffing needs to the Senior Director./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Support onboarding and shadowing of new guards to ensure understanding of expectations and standards./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Maintain professionalism and model YMCA core values in all interactions./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Adhere to policies related to boundaries with members, volunteers, staff, and participants./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Attend required Abuse Risk Management training and adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising members and participants./span/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.15; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"span style='font-size:12px;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;'Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations and follow mandated abuse reporting procedures./span/li/ulp style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 16px; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"nbsp;/span/pp style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:16px;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;' data-pasted="true"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"strongspan style="line-height: 115%;"LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:/span/strong/span/pulli data-pasted="true" style="line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"Emotional Maturity/span/lili style="line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"Communication/span/lili style="line-height: 1.5;"span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"Critical Thinking and Decision Making/span/li/ulh2 style='margin-top:8.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:21px;font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;color:#0F4761;font-weight:normal;'span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"strongspan style="line-height: 115%; color: windowtext;"QUALIFICATIONS:/span/strong/span/h2ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc" data-pasted="true"li style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"strongMinimum age of 18/strong/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Current YMCA Lifeguard or ARC Lifeguard Certifications and Basic Life Support (CPR), AED, Basic First Aid and Oxygen Administrationnbsp;certifications./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Ability to maintain certification-level of physical and mentalnbsp;readiness./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Must have a CPR/AED and First Aid Certification OR get certified within 90 days ofnbsp;employment./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Must demonstrate lifeguard skills in accordance with YMCA or ARCnbsp;standards./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Complete Bloodborne pathogens coursenbsp;annually./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Maintain all required certificationsnbsp;(active)/lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; 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font-size: 12px;"strongspan style="line-height: 115%; color: windowtext;"WORK ENVIRONMENT amp; PHYSICAL DEMANDS:/span/strong/span/h2ul style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;" type="disc" data-pasted="true"li style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Ability to pass lifeguard skills assessment and water test./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Must be able to remainnbsp;alert./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Must be able to sit or stand for extendednbsp;periods./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Adequate ability to hear noises and distinguish distressnbsp;signals./lili style="margin: 0in; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"Ability to continuously scan all areas of the pool with clearnbsp;vision./lili style="margin: 0in; 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Posting ID: 1240620107 Posted: 2026-03-13 Job Title: Head Lifeguard