Experience with hiring, scheduling, training, supervising, and evaluating student employees in a recreation or similar facility or circumstance is required. Additional duties include conducting informational and in-service meetings for all employees, ensuring that facilities are safe and clean at all times, and working with Physical Education and Athletics concerning equipment and facility space. Additional duties include managing facilities during Burris High School athletic events, and supervising and scheduling students to work during special events. As a graduate assistant with us, you will be directly involved and responsible for the continued development and administration in the area mentioned above. Specifically, successful candidates can gain significant professional experience in many aspects of recreation planning and development, employee recruitment, training, supervising and evaluation.
Graduate degrees are available in sports management, sports administration, or wellness management.
As a graduate assistant in the Office of Recreation Programs at Ball State University, you will be given responsibilities of many entry-level or young professionals. Opportunities may exist to earn extra income over specified holiday breaks and the summer sessions.