Sports and Fitness Management Assistant (m/f)

Job description

Sports and fitness administrators contribute to the smooth running of sports operations through their diverse business, organizational and customer-oriented activities. In fitness and health studios as well as clubs and associations, they develop concepts for sports and other services.

They look after customers and advise them on sports offers and on the health aspects of exercise and nutrition. Planning and implementing marketing and health-related events is also part of their field of employment. They also take on tasks in accounting, controlling and human resources management.

Training content

Training contents include:

• Developing sports and fitness offers and offering them to university sports participants
• Calculating, designing, organizing and implementing sports events and activities
• Carry out individual entry checks in the university's own fitness studio UNIfit and draw up appropriate training plans
• Develop promotional concepts, calculate associated costs and work with the media
• Acquire knowledge about care and maintenance of sports facilities and equipment
• Identify target groups for general university sports and conduct member recruitment campaigns
• Maintain customer contacts, advise customers and handle complaints
• Calculate fees and contributions, assist in payment transactions and dunning, prepare annual financial statements, conduct inventories
• Controlling: evaluating key operational figures and compiling and evaluating statistics

In addition, knowledge of topics such as rights and duties during training, organization of the training company and environmental protection is taught throughout the training.

Requirements

• At the time of the start of the training, you should have a secondary school leaving certificate (Realschulabschluss).
• Grades of at least "satisfactory" or better in German, English, mathematics and sports.

Of advantage are:

• Interest in EDP
• Good comprehension skills
• Communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a team

Training duration and structure

The training lasts 3 years.

High school graduates have the option of shortening the training to 2 years.

An intermediate examination is held halfway through the training period.

Training pay

A monthly training allowance is paid in accordance with § 8 Paragraph 1 of the collective agreement for trainees in the state of Hesse (TVA-H BBiG).

Training location

The practical training takes place in the Department of University Sports of the Institute for Sports and Sports Science of the University of Kassel. This department is located at the Damaschkestraße site, directly in the Aueparkhalle. 

Homepage of the General University Sports: http://hochschulsport.uni-kassel.de

The vocational school is the Paul-Julius-von-Reute-Schule in Kassel. There, further knowledge is imparted in job-specific learning areas (e.g. advising and looking after customers and members in sports, preparing investment decisions and developing financial sources) as well as the general education subjects, such as German and economics and social studies.

Homepage of the Paul-Julius-von-Reuter-School: www.reuterschule.de

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Happel, Tel.: 0561-804-3204, E-Mail: ihappel[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.

The protection of your personal data is important to us, therefore we will handle your personal data with care. If you give us your data, you thereby allow us to store and use it in accordance with the Hessian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act. You can object to this at any time. Your personal data will then be deleted. Information in accordance with Art. 13 DSGVO for the application procedure at the University of Kassel can be found at www.uni-kassel.de/go/ausschreibung-datenschutz.

Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if they are equally qualified and qualified. Full-time positions are generally divisible. Please submit only copies of your application documents (no folders), as these cannot be returned after the selection process has been completed; they will be destroyed in compliance with data protection regulations. Applications with informative documents should be sent to the President of the University of Kassel, 34109 Kassel or bewerbungen[at]uni-kassel[dot]de, quoting the reference number 32641 in the subject line, and preferably also in electronic form.