Fitness & Wellness Coordinators

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Fitness and Wellness Coordinator, Fitness and Wellness Director, Fitness Coordinator, Fitness Director

What they do:
Manage or coordinate fitness and wellness programs and services. Manage and train staff of wellness specialists, health educators, or fitness instructors.
On the job, you would:
  • Maintain wellness- and fitness-related schedules, records, or reports.
  • Develop or coordinate fitness and wellness programs or services.
  • Recommend or approve new program or service offerings to promote wellness and fitness, produce revenues, or minimize costs.

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Math and Science

  • psychology

Skills

Basic Skills

  • talking to others
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • looking for ways to help people

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • use rules to solve problems
  • notice when problems happen

Memory

  • remember words, numbers, pictures, or steps

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Initiative
  • Dependability
  • Leadership
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Integrity
  • Concern for Others

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook Hot Technology

Data base user interface and query software

  • Airtable
  • MicroFit HealthWizard

Office suite software

  • Google Workspace software Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Office software Hot Technology In Demand

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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