Fitness & Wellness Coordinator
Are you fit?
Create fitness programs
- Teach fitness classes to improve strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, or general fitness of participants.
- Develop fitness or wellness classes, such as yoga, aerobics, weightlifting, and aquatics, ensuring a diversity of class offerings.
Provide health screenings
- Organize and oversee health screenings, such as flu, mammography, blood pressure, and cholesterol screenings.
Make sure worker do their right work
- Supervise fitness or wellness workers, such as fitness instructors, recreation workers, nutritionists, and health educators.
Keep gyms clean
- Manage or oversee fitness or recreation facilities, ensuring safe and clean facilities and equipment.
Keep records of programs
- Track attendance, participation, or performance data related to wellness events.
Working Conditions
- Most find working with students extremely rewarding, but as the responsibilities of administrators have increased in recent years, so has the stress.
- Coordinating and interacting with faculty, parents, students, community members, business leaders, and State and local policymakers are also tasks that need to get done.
- Principals and assistant principals, whose duties include disciplining students, may find working with difficult students challenging.
- About 35 percent of education administrators worked more than 40 hours a week in 2008; they often supervise school activities at night and on weekends.
- Most administrators work year around.
Degree's or Certificate's?
A bachelors degree is the minimum formal education required for this occupation, though some may require a higher degree plus work experience.