Life's too short to not work someplace awesome! If you love kids, have extensive gymnastics experience, and want to help children build real skills while having a ton of fun, you may be exactly who we're looking for. This role includes teaching our older grade-school students as they work on more challenging gymnastics skills.
Extensive gymnastics experience is required for this role. We'll train you in The Little Gym's curriculum and teaching approach; you bring a strong gymnastics foundation.
What you will do
- Teach gymnastics classes using The Little Gym's proven curriculum, with a focus on helping grade-school students develop technique, confidence, and progressively more challenging skills
- Break skills into clear progressions, adapt instruction to each child's readiness, and use safe spotting techniques consistent with your training and The Little Gym's safety standards
- Create a warm, energetic environment where every child feels seen, celebrated, and challenged
- Treat each class like it's every kid's first day because to them, the magic never gets old
- Deliver the kind of member experience that makes families feel like they belong here because they do
- Keep the gym clean and ready for families by cleaning and sanitizing mats, equipment, and shared spaces, and completing assigned opening and closing cleaning tasks
- Set up, take down, and safely lift, carry, and move small gym equipment and teaching props before and after classes
You would fit right in if
- You have extensive hands-on gymnastics experience through sustained training, competition, and/or coaching, with a strong understanding of technique, skill progressions, and safe spotting
- You can apply that experience to teach grade-school children, recognize when a child is ready to progress, and give clear, encouraging corrections
- Experience coaching children's gymnastics, especially older grade-school students, is strongly preferred
- Kids love you and their parents do too
- You love having fun but know when to buckle down and get to work
- You bring patience, positive energy, and a love of helping children build confidence
Preferred availability
Availability on Monday and Wednesday evenings and on Saturdays is preferred.
Physical requirements
This is an active role that involves standing and moving throughout class, bending, kneeling, reaching, and working at children's height. Duties include lifting, carrying, and moving small gym equipment and teaching props, as well as routine cleaning and sanitizing. These duties may be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.
Why you will love it here
- You'll watch kids walk out more confident than when they walked in - every single day
- You'll close your activity rings without even thinking about it
- You'll build relationships with kids and families that genuinely last
- You'll be part of a close-knit team that takes care of each other the same way we take care of our members, like family
- You'll go through structured training that sets you up to actually be great at this job, not just good enough
About The Little Gym
With 300+ locations worldwide, The Little Gym is the premier gymnastics-based enrichment center for kids 4 months through 12 years. For over four decades, we've helped millions of children discover confidence, build skills, and experience the thrill of achievement in a clean, safe, and joyful environment where every child grows at their own pace.
When you join The Little Gym of Bloomfield Hills, you're not just joining a gym, you're joining a team that shows up for each other and for every child who walks through our doors.
If this sounds like the job you've been dreaming about, we've been waiting for you.
When you apply
Please describe your gymnastics background, including years of training, competition, and/or coaching, the skills or levels you have worked with, and any experience teaching grade-school children.
When you work somewhere this fun, it doesn’t even feel like a job.
Want to wake up excited to go to work every morning, confident that you’re making a difference while having a blast? You’ve come to the right place. The Little Gym is the world’s premier enrichment and physical development center for children ages 4 months through 12 years. Programs offer children a Springboard to Life’s Adventures by using movement-based learning and imaginative play to help build the confidence and skills needed at each stage of childhood.
For over 40 years, our trained instructors have nurtured happy, confident kids through parent/child classes, gymnastics, dance and sports prep, plus enjoyable extras like camps, Parents Survival Nights and Awesome Birthday Bash parties. As a part of The Little Gym team, you will be part of a family dedicated to the growth and development of children all over the globe. We are looking for fun, outgoing, talented individuals who are looking to make a difference in their community. If this sounds like you, check out our open positions!