• Oversee all aspects of performance management of student workers for the wellness and activities centers (ensuring workers are punctual, wearing uniforms, and meeting performance objectives).
• Supervise the wellness and activities centers in the absence of the Director of Campus Recreation.
• Provide administrative oversight of the department in the Director’s absence as it relates to the instruction and supervision of student workers and student members in their use and management of the wellness facilities on campus.
• Serve as a coordinator to group fitness class programming through training with instructors, teaching fitness classes, and offering training for students.
• Teach principles of both health and wellness to student workers and design/implement health and fitness plans/programs for students.
• Train new student workers and teach them principles of health and wellness during monthly staff meetings and to newly hired individuals, as needed.
• Implement and assist in oversight of initiatives with Wellness Center programming and resources, such as podcast episodes, physical resources, etc.
• Assist with Club Sport programming (ultimate frisbee and indoor volleyball). 

• Teach students the tenets of sport participation, excellence, fitness, responsibility, and sports cognition.
• Develop both the coordinators and referees in general job competence, communication, sports knowledge, injury management and prevention, and conflict resolution.
• Communicate with undergraduate intramural coordinators concerning game times, rule distributions, and game outcomes.
• Teach methodology for refereeing games to undergraduate student referees.
• Teach student coordinators the beneficial effects of exercise and team sports, as well as instruct them concerning conflict resolution during competitive sporting events.
• Supervise, schedule, lead, and develop the student intramural coordinators, intramural representatives, and officials.
• Assist the Director for Campus Recreation in hiring and training officials.
• Serve as an intermediary between the Director for Campus Recreation and the student body as a whole, gathering feedback and assisting in strategic planning.

For more information, contact Ivy-Marie Adkisson, Director for Campus Recreation at iadkisson@uu.edu. 

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree is required. Acceptance into a post-bachelor’s academic program at the University, as well as full-time course registration into the same program of study is also required.

Successful candidates must be professing Christians who are active members of a local church, enthusiastically support Union University’s Identity, Mission, and Core Values, and articulate a Christian worldview in their work and life. (Union University’s Identity, Mission, and Core Values is a link to https://www.uu.edu/about/what-we-believe.cfm)

About Union University

Union University is a private, coeducational liberal arts-based university offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The campus is located in Jackson, Tenn., with additional campuses in Germantown, Hendersonville, and Memphis, Tenn., and enrolls about 2,700 students. Union University stands as a national leader among colleges and universities in promoting a Christian worldview and a Christ-centered approach to education. Union is consistently ranked among the nation’s premier Christian universities and has been recognized as a top-tier institution each year since 1997 by U.S. News & World Report, which also recognized Union at a national level for undergraduate teaching excellence. Union University offers graduate programs in the studies of Biology, Business, Education, Music, Christian Studies, and Social Work, Union University's Campus Recreation program oversees a fitness gym, the Wellness Center, a thriving 20+ sport intramural program, four club sport teams, all health and wellbeing initiatives, and outdoor recreation. Campus Recreation operates out of their vision statement, "a campus of healthy students wherein wellbeing is pursued and understood by the majorit...y". This guides most initiatives and programs set out, like the brand new addition of the Wellness Center (August 2024) and the upcoming outdoor intramural facility (August 2025).

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