Yoga teacher job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Yoga teacher in details. A complete job description concludes Yoga teacher key duties/responsibilities, Yoga teacher job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

I. List of Yoga teacher duties:

1. Supports and articulates the Life Time Fitness mission statement
2. Adheres to company policies and procedures
3. Ensures cleanliness of the club using all 5 senses:
4. Sight to ensure club is neat and orderly
5. Sound to ensure music/sound levels are appropriate
6. Touch to ensure floors, countertops, etc are clean and dry
7. Taste to ensure food & beverages in the café are up-to-standards
8. Smell to ensure the club is fresh and odor free
9. Demonstrates positive attitude and actions through a display of courtesy, service, cooperation, hospitality, sensitivity, and professionalism to internal and external customers
10. Complies with all company safety rules
11. Uses all required safety devices and personal protection equipment
12. Reports accidents and injuries to supervisor as soon as possible
13. Participates in safety training and safety inspections
14. Suggests methods of preventing hazards to safety committee

II. List of Yoga teacher qualifications

1. High school diploma or GED
2. Two years experience as a Yoga Teacher
3. One year supervisory experience preferred
4. CPR/AED certification
5. Registered Yoga Instructor 200 hour level (RYT-200) or equivalent experience required
6. Ability to build relationship with members
7. Excellent communication and people skills
8. Excellent customer service and promotional skills, energetic, enthusiastic and motivational
9. Ability to resolve conflicts in a professional, tactful manner
10. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
11. Ability to coach, develop staff, and foster a team environment
12. Ability to lead and motivate a group class
13. Ability to be a positive fitness role model
14. Excellent physical fitness
15. Result orientated with a positive outlook and commitment to quality
16. Extensive knowledge of yoga programs
17. Extensive knowledge of safe exercise techniques
18. Ability to perform exercises specific to the assigned class
19. Ability resolve conflicts in a professional, tactful manner
20. Ability to multi-task, learn quickly, and make decisions easily and quickly
21. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
22. Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Applications
23. Ability to accept direction and be accountable for work outcomes, including following through on projects or responsibilities with a sense of ownership
24. Exhibits grace under pressure

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.

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