Tennis and/or Padel Instructor - Lanzarote

Come work at the world's biggest sports resort. Club La Santa is the world’s biggest sports resort – and we continue to set the standard for active and fun holidays. At Club La Santa, guests can enjoy more than 80 different sports on state-of-the-art facilities and 500 weekly activities and instructed lessons – all included in the stay! With almost 496 rooms spanning from one-bedroom apartments to luxurious suites, we host approximately 1600 guests at maximum capacity. We are also a beloved destination for many national sports teams and professional athletes. The resort is located near La Santa village on the north-western coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It is an English speaking resort with the majority of guests from Denmark, United Kingdom and Germany.

Work and responsibilities

Working as a tennis and/or a padel instructor at Club La Santa you will be working within the racket sports team consisting of 7-8 instructors. You will mainly be responsible for teaching tennis and padel instructions for groups and individuals. Your main tasks will be to coordinate tournaments, teaching all levels of tennis and/or padel in groups of around 12 people. We expect you to be able to teach classes with different focuses like serving, double tactics, volleys, forehand/backhand. Within the racket sport team we also offer personal instructions (PI´s) with a focus on deeper technical and tactical development which we expect you to teach. In high season and in special occasions you will also have the possibility to team teach classes with your fellow racket sport colleagues. As a part of the racket sport team, you might also teach instructions in badminton, table tennis and/or squash, as well as deliver the very best experience to Club La Santa guests. Working within the Green Team you might be required to work in other areas, like Sports Booking, morning runs, events, evening entertainment, etc. You will work on a flexible schedule that is dynamic and changing. Your working days will be varied in tasks and hours. You will refer directly to the In-Charge of racket sports (in Lanzarote). Furthermore, you will be a part of the Green Team consisting of around 60 sports instructors and with more than 450 colleagues across 3 countries, you will be part of a big hotel operation.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years teaching experience in either tennis or padel.
• Preferable: Experience and knowledge in other racket sports like squash, badminton and table tennis.
• Fluent in English. Secondary Spanish and/or Danish.

Candidate profile

• Great communication skills. When speaking to our guests, we expect you to be clear in your instructions and specific about the focus points given for each drill. You can keep an overview of multiple courts at the same time and communicate in different contexts during personal instructions or group sessions.
• Curious and open minded. You are curious and self-reflective. You are open minded, honest and have an interest in learning, developing and sharing knowledge within the current trends of tennis and padel. You are ready to share your ideas and points of view during racket sport team meetings.
• Diligent. You are looking forward to getting to work and want to deliver to Club La Santa’s uncompromising high standards every day. You will develop your knowledge and skills while following different workshops in racket sports and other areas like body language, teamwork, communication, cooperation etc.
• Teamwork. You are true to our agreements within the team. You are capable to both give and receive feedback and feedforward and implement them. You are able to bring your own style and touch while still following the green team manual standard of classes. You will shadow your colleagues and share your different points of view in order to improve the quality of our classes. You can meet deadlines and collaborate with the different tasks such as tidying racket areas, filling up balls, checking equipment, making new programs and helping to develop the racket department following the current trends.
• Independent. As well as being good at teamwork, you will be teaching most of the time on your own in the racket sports department.
• Responsible. You are responsible with tasks and self-motivated in both high and low season. In classes you will be responsible for the guests, the equipment used and the courts booked. You are true to our agreements within the team following the Green Team Manual activities standard and you have an interest in keeping our areas organized and tidy.
• Problem-solving and organisational skills. You own problems and are good at finding solutions and you can quickly adapt to situations if something doesn't go as planned. You will help keeping the racket areas organized and tidy and checking amount of tournament sheets, balls, targets, cones etc.

What do we offer

• Permanent full time contract with 40 hrs. working week and 2 days off.
• The annual gross salary is 25.020€.
• One free lunch will be provided on all working days.
• Holiday: 30 days a year + 18 extra days of holiday as compensation for work on public holidays including holiday pay.
• Subsidised shared accommodation at 191.76 € per month (the apartment is shared with another employee and consists of a living room with a small kitchen, bathroom and one bedroom).
• Full use of world-class sporting facilities at Club La Santa.
• Spanish Residency allowing for discounted travel within the Canary Islands and mainland Spain.
• A learning environment with different possibilities to develop professionally and personally.
• Support in organising the necessary documentation required for foreigners upon arrival in Spain.

Important information for when applying

We can only employ people with a passport from the EU community or with a Spanish residencia and work permit. The position will require relocation to Lanzarote if you are not already living here. Only applications in English will be taken into consideration. In the application a video will be required of you introducing yourself, showing us your teaching skills and you playing in a match situation within either tennis and/or padel. The minimum period of employment for this job is 9 months, starting with 2 month probationary period. A clean criminal report and child protection certificate will be required from new staff upon arrival. Deadline for application: For position there is no set deadline. We are always looking for new talented colleagues all year around.