Culture & Community
Ensuring our quality of life remains a way of life.
Chandler residents enjoy a strong sense of belonging cultivated by community events, long-standing traditions, and endless opportunities to participate and engage in the city’s beauty, growth, and success. From parks and libraries to museums and downtown revitalization, Chandler’s diverse selection of cultural, educational, and recreational experiences foster lasting impressions and connections. As a member of Team Chandler’s Cultural Development or Community Services Departments, you’ll help create those connections.
Chandler residents enjoy a strong sense of belonging cultivated by community events, long-standing traditions, and endless opportunities to participate and engage in the city’s beauty, growth, and success. From parks and libraries to museums and downtown revitalization, Chandler’s diverse selection of cultural, educational, and recreational experiences foster lasting impressions and connections. As a member of Team Chandler’s Cultural Development or Community Services Departments, you’ll help create those connections.
Activities as diverse as the people that live here.
Play a vital role in developing and implementing programs that enrich the lives of Chandler residents and families and promote wellness, unity, and personal growth. Camps, classes, sports leagues, outdoor and indoor recreation, fitness, libraries, museums, parks, biking and hiking trails, and year-round aquatic centers—it’s easy to make yourself at home here, and Team Chandler is an incredible host.
Join The Team
Activities as diverse as the people that live here.
Play a vital role in developing and implementing programs that enrich the lives of Chandler residents and families and promote wellness, unity, and personal growth. Camps, classes, sports leagues, outdoor and indoor recreation, fitness, libraries, museums, parks, biking and hiking trails, and year-round aquatic centers—it’s easy to make yourself at home here, and Team Chandler is an incredible host.
Enriching lives makes for an enriching career.
When you join Team Chandler in one of the Culture & Community positions, you’ll be helping shape our vibrant city while having a meaningful impact on everyone who calls Chandler home. Whether working for Chandler Center for the Arts, the acclaimed Chandler Museum or as a lifeguard, park staff or coordinator for our popular recreation centers, you’ll be helping people best enjoy all the City of Chandler has to offer. You’ll have the opportunity to make someone’s day, every day.
Current Openings
Head Pool Manager
The City of Chandler Community Services Department Aquatics Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Head Pool Manager. Our new team members will be passionate about customer service, teamwork, and collaboration. Chandler Aquatics seeks a responsible, self-motivated, organized Head Pool Manager to join our team. We seek someone with good decision-making skills concerning employee scheduling, training, and coaching employees, prioritizing daily work assignments, and performing daily duties efficiently.
The City of Chandler Community Services Department Aquatics Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Head Pool Manager. Our new team members will be passionate about customer service, teamwork, and collaboration. Chandler Aquatics seeks a responsible, self-motivated, organized Head Pool Manager to join our team. We seek someone with good decision-making skills concerning employee scheduling, training, and coaching employees, prioritizing daily work assignments, and performing daily duties efficiently.
Parks Maintenance Worker
The City of Chandler Community Services Department Parks Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Parks Maintenance Worker. Our new team member will have a passion for customer service, teamwork, and collaboration with experience in grounds maintenance and specific experience in maintaining athletic fields. Essential functions include:
- Performs litter control of all areas of parks to include playgrounds, field areas and picnic areas.
- Power washes amenities for cleanliness for park users.
- Performs hazard checks of park areas, including High-Frequency Playground Inspections.
- Barricades work areas for public safety.
- Performs landscaping activities including mowing grass, trimming, weeding, pruning and planting trees and bushes, clearing leaves from hardscapes and preparing paths and courts for use; inspects and reports damaged or dead trees and shrubs; removes dead trees, branches, stumps or dead plants; tills and levels volleyball courts.
- Oversees and operates medium to heavy equipment to prepare fields for athletic events; lines fields for sporting events; performs landscaping activities such as mowing, aerating, rolling, slicing, top dressing, leveling, seeding, fertilizing, flooding and sodding of fields.
- Performs basic repairs, maintenance and installation of irrigation systems.
- May maintain and monitor reclaimed water recharge basins, aeration equipment or lake water levels and performs scheduled flood irrigation.
- Responds to public inquiries and complaints; provides resources for resolution.
The City of Chandler Community Services Department Parks Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Parks Maintenance Worker. Essential functions include:
- Performs litter control of all areas of parks to include playgrounds, field areas and picnic areas.
- Power washes amenities for cleanliness for park users.
- Performs hazard checks of park areas, including High-Frequency Playground Inspections.
- Barricades work areas for public safety.
- Performs landscaping activities including mowing grass, trimming, weeding, pruning and planting trees and bushes, clearing leaves from hardscapes and preparing paths and courts for use; inspects and reports damaged or dead trees and shrubs; removes dead trees, branches, stumps or dead plants; tills and levels volleyball courts.
- Oversees and operates medium to heavy equipment to prepare fields for athletic events; lines fields for sporting events; performs landscaping activities such as mowing, aerating, rolling, slicing, top dressing, leveling, seeding, fertilizing, flooding and sodding of fields.
- Performs basic repairs, maintenance and installation of irrigation systems.
- May maintain and monitor reclaimed water recharge basins, aeration equipment or lake water levels and performs scheduled flood irrigation.
- Responds to public inquiries and complaints; provides resources for resolution.
Recreation Assistant: Housing
The City of Chandler Neighborhood Resources Department is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Recreation Assistant (Housing). Our new team member will have a passion for youth development and experience developing and implementing youth programing. We are seeking a creative and self-motivated individual, with at least 1 year of experience working with youth who leads by example to join our inclusive team.
The City of Chandler Neighborhood Resources Department is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Recreation Assistant (Housing). Our new team member will have a passion for youth development and experience developing and implementing youth programing. We are seeking a creative and self-motivated individual, with at least 1 year of experience working with youth who leads by example to join our inclusive team.
Recreation Assistant – Adult Sports Program
The City of Chandler Recreation Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining the team as a Recreation Assistant – Adult Sports Program. Our new team member will have a passion for sports and the ability to work independently. We are looking for a Temp Recreation Assistant who will plan and assist with the supervision of adult sports leagues and facility site supervision. Ideal applicants will have general experience with sports fields and facility supervision, communicate with league participants and league coordinator, and the ability to handle stressful situations.
The City of Chandler Recreation Division is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining the team as a Recreation Assistant – Adult Sports Program. Our new team member will have a passion for sports and the ability to work independently. We are looking for a Temp Recreation Assistant who will plan and assist with the supervision of adult sports leagues and facility site supervision. Ideal applicants will have general experience with sports fields and facility supervision, communicate with league participants and league coordinator, and the ability to handle stressful situations.
Recreation Specialist – Chandler Nature Center
The City of Chandler Community Services Department is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Recreation Specialist at the Chandler Nature Center. Our new team member will be passionate about customer service, teamwork, and collaboration. We are looking for someone who will connect Nature Center guests with our established programming. In addition, our employees must demonstrate excellent customer service and communicate effectively with participants, visitors, co-workers, and supervisors. Job duties include, but are not limited to:
- Complete administrative work to support staff, such as maintaining facility schedules and updating programming calendars.
- Register participants for recreation programs and complete park pavilion rental bookings.
- Responsible for gift shop inventory, financial records, vendor communication, and budget monitoring.
- Supervise temporary staff and their assigned duties, such as animal care, program registration, and daily facility tasks.
- Complete work order requests for facility equipment and maintenance issues.
- Receive, verify, process payments, balance daily revenue receipts, record payments, and issue refunds.
- Opportunity to plan and lead community recreation and environmental education programs with a STEM approach, focusing on botany, desert ecology, and environmental science topics.
The City of Chandler Community Services Department is currently seeking qualified individuals interested in joining our team as a Recreation Specialist at the Chandler Nature Center. Our new team member will be passionate about customer service, teamwork, and collaboration. We are looking for someone who will connect Nature Center guests with our established programming. In addition, our employees must demonstrate excellent customer service and communicate effectively with participants, visitors, co-workers, and supervisors.
Job duties include, but are not limited to:
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Benefits
Exceptional people, exceptional treatment.
Our employees enjoy a generous benefits package. If you have the passion and the potential, there’s a career for you here.
Competitive Pay
Health & Wellness Benefits
Professional Development
Retirement / Pension
Work / Life Balance
Culture of Engagement
Competitive Pay
Health & Wellness Benefits
Professional Development
Retirement / Pension
Work / Life Balance