Example Career: Fitness and Wellness Coordinators

Career Description

Manage or coordinate fitness and wellness programs and services. Manage and train staff of wellness specialists, health educators or fitness instructors.

What Job Titles Fitness and Wellness Coordinators Might Have

• Fitness and Wellness Director
• Fitness Coordinator
• Fitness/Wellness Director
• Wellness Director

What Fitness and Wellness Coordinators Do

• Manage or oversee fitness or recreation facilities, ensuring safe and clean facilities and equipment.
• Provide individual support or counseling in general wellness or nutrition.
• Supervise fitness or wellness specialists, such as fitness instructors, nutritionists, or health educators.
• Conduct needs assessments or surveys to determine interest in, or satisfaction with, wellness and fitness programs, events, or services.
• Develop or coordinate fitness and wellness programs or services.
• Prepare or implement budgets and strategic, operational, purchasing, or maintenance plans.
• Track cost-containment strategies and programs to evaluate effectiveness.
• Maintain wellness- and fitness-related schedules, records, or reports.
• Develop fitness or wellness classes, such as yoga, aerobics, strength training, or aquatics, ensuring a diversity of class offerings.
• Select or supervise contractors, such as event hosts or health, fitness, and wellness practitioners.
• Recommend or approve new program or service offerings to promote wellness and fitness, produce revenues, or minimize costs.
• Develop marketing campaigns to promote a healthy lifestyle or participation in fitness or wellness programs.
• Track attendance, participation, or performance data related to wellness events.
• Demonstrate proper operation of fitness equipment, such as resistance machines, cardio machines, free weights, or fitness assessment devices.
• Organize and oversee fitness or wellness programs, such as information presentations, blood drives, or training in first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Conduct or facilitate training sessions or seminars for wellness and fitness staff.
• Respond to customer, public, or media requests for information about wellness programs or services.
• Interpret insurance data or Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) data to develop programs that address specific needs of target populations.
• Maintain or arrange for maintenance of fitness equipment or facilities.
• Organize and oversee health screenings or other preventive measures, such as mammography, blood pressure, or cholesterol screenings or flu vaccinations.
• Use computer skills and software to manage Web sites or databases, publish newsletters, or provide webinars.
• Teach fitness classes to improve strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, or general fitness of participants.

What Fitness and Wellness Coordinators Should Be Good At

• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

What Fitness and Wellness Coordinators Should Be Interested In

• Enterprising - Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
• Social - Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

What Fitness and Wellness Coordinators Need to Learn

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Education and Training - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• Psychology - Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Sales and Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
• Communications and Media - Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
• Personnel and Human Resources - Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.