Recreation Technicians
Job description
These individuals organize recreational activities for a variety of clients. They help develop and implement socio-cultural and sports activity programs in various environments (school, community, etc.). They manage the budget allocated to recreational activities. They select and maintain the equipment required. They work for:
- Educational institutions
- Community centres
- Municipal recreational services
- Retirement homes
- Recreational centres
- Summer camps
- Travel agencies
- Reception centres
- Care homes
- Sports clubs
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Climatic conditions
Main tasks
- Schedule recreational programs and ensure their smooth operation.
- Explain the nature, objective, and rules of the activities to participants.
- Ensure the safety of participants during activities and administer first aid when needed.
- Promote exercise and healthy lifestyle habits.
- Intervene in a helping relationship through recreational activities with clients who have physical or intellectual limitations or mental health problems.
- Set up, assemble, and diassemble installations.
- Maintain records and draft reports.
- Supervise or train Recreation Technicians with less experience, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to supervisory positions.
Training and requirements
Formation
Bachelor’s degree or diploma of college studies
Sometimes required
- Training in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often required.
- Demonstrated aptitudes in a particular discipline of sports, recreation, or physical training considered an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Service oriented
- Teaching
- Oral expression
- Material resource management
- Financial resource management
- Equipment selection
- Social perception
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active listening
- Equipment maintenance
- Time management
- Coordination
- Result evaluation
- Critical thought
Abilities
- Speech clarity
- Oral comprehension
- Overall coordination of the body
- Endurance
- Awareness of issues
- Verbal skills
- Dynamic strength
- Core strength
- Limb coordination
- Information organization
- Originality
- Overall balance of the body
- Static muscle power
- Deductive reasoning
- Manual dexterity
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Response orientation
- Peripheral vision
- Physical flexibility in extension
- Dynamic physical flexibility
- Near vision
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Autonomy
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Vitality
- Creativity
- Friendliness
- Respect others
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Knowledge of the arts
- Capacity to facilitate a group
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work in sales or client service
- Work in the arts, culture, music, or leisure
- Create, design
- Make, build, install
- Assist and advise
- Exercer une activité sportive ou physique
- Work outdoors
- Teach or educate
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness (CNP 54100)
Skill type
Art, culture, recreation and sport
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Last update: January 29, 2026
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