- Lifeguards - starting at $16.50/hr
- Dance instructors - starting at $24.40 - $29.80/hr
- Recreation center, outdoor pool and Reservoir cashiers - $15.10-18.50 or $16.65 or $19/hr depending on the position
- Parks Maintenance Crew member - starting at $19/hr
- And more!
Now hiring you!
Plant your (career) roots with us and you can grow here! Join our team: help us finish out the summer and beyond.
Play here. Work here. Grow here. Boulder Parks and Recreation.
Positions open for:
Benefits:
- Fun work atmosphere
- Flexible scheduling
- Make friends
- Free 6-month recreation center pass to our facilities
- Free RTD Ecopass
- $100 bonus when you refer a friend
We're hiring teens as young as 14
Lifeguard positions with the City of Boulder
Need to earn your lifeguard certification? We regularly offer certification classes, so click here for our next training class. If you take one of our classes and work a season for us, we will reimburse the cost of the certification class.
To enroll in the Lifeguarding course, you must be at least 15 years old before the last scheduled class session. To participate in the course, you must be able to complete an 8-hour online pre-course session as well as pass a prerequisite swimming skills evaluation. The swimming prerequisites includes two parts and takes place before or during the first in-person session.
Prerequisite 1: Jump in, submerge, resurface and swim 150 yards continuously, tread water for 2 minutes, and then swim 50 more yards. While swimming, you must keep your face in the water and demonstrate good breath control. You may swim using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both. Swimming on the back or side is not permitted. Swim goggles are allowed. When treading, you must use only your legs.
Prerequisite 2: Complete a timed event within 1 minute, 40 seconds. Starting in the water, swim 20 yards. Your face may be in or out of the water. Swim goggles are not allowed. Surface dive (head-first or feet-first) to a depth of 7 to 10 feet to retrieve a 10-pound object. Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on your back to return to the starting point, holding the object at the surface with both hands and keeping your face at or near the surface. Swimming the distance underwater is not permitted. Exit the water without using a ladder or the steps.