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Spring Hill RECenter Volunteer

Spring Hill RECenter 1239 Spring Hill Road McLean, VA 22102 Volunteer Manager Shawna Levins 703-827-0989 Volunteer at Spring Hill RECenter  Our volunteer program is an award-winner on the local, national and global level. Spring Hill was the first RECenter to partner with the Jane Goodall Institute's internationally acclaimed Roots & Shoots Jr. Volunteer Program. Our Roots & Shoots was selected as Volunteer Fairfax’s 2008 Youth Volunteer Group of the Year and was awarded the Park Authority’s Elly Doyle Park Service Award for Student Recognition. Spring Hill is also the first Park Authority RECenter to be declared an Official Certifying Organization for the President's Volunteer Service Award. In addition, Spring Hill's Volunteer program has received recognition from USA Today's Weekend Magazine's National Make A Difference Day, Jane Goodall Institute, National Environmental Education Foundation, Character Counts! and DC Greenfest. If you are looking for the chance to make a difference, please consider joining our award-winning team. Shawna Levins, Volunteer Program Manager COMPLETE LISTINGS POSITION DESCRIPTIONS HIGHLIGHTS... Marie Duval, French volunteer from Au Pair in America. Marie is absolutely without a doubt the grrrreatest kid on the planet! She has truly been a great all around volunteer and a stellar representation of how valuable our Au Pair Volunteers are to Spring Hill's Operations. She is a brilliant kid, fluent in English with her Master's degree in International affairs. Marie's year stay here is up and she is leaving to go home. She wanted to go to an American baseball game before she left and being the die-hard Yankees fan that I am, I took her to a Yankees game on Tuesday and we had the best time as the photo reflects from outside where we ate dinner in Little Italy. Marie will be SoOoOoO missed; I can't begin to tell you how our staff will miss her weekly presence at Spring Hill. She does it all...from helping to keeping all the machines in the Fitness Room clean, to sanitizing all the equipment in the Dance Studio & Wellness Studio, organizing the lost & found, cleaning out all the lockers in the ladies locker room, collecting the quarters each week from the Ladies Room lockers, transformed the pool deck stainless steel by working to remove the normal rust and mineral deposits that build up over time, helping with so many aspects of landscaping around the grounds and beyond. Marie is a genuine Rock Star Volunteer and we feel so incredibly blessed to have this wonderful partnership with our Au Pair agencies that refer their incredible staff to volunteer at our RECenter. Marie has been the total package that showcases how volunteers truly Power our Parks.   CURRENTLY IN NEED OF... Adapted Aquatics Class Assistant Front Desk Associate Landscaper Fitness Room Monitor Maintenance Support APPLY ONLINE NOW VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Saiid Ganjalizadeh Spring Hill RECenter’s 2012 Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Simply the most delightful member of our ensemble volunteer cast Ahhhhh-mazing charm that keeps even the most less than pleasant guest at bay Indomitable spirit that serves as an example for all who cross his path Incomparable team effort mentality Dependable hard work ethic All in all, Saiid's name spells out Volunteer of The Year. Despite being a brilliant and busy professor at Catholic University, Saiid has been a rock star member of our staff during the past five years and has contributed over 1000 hours of enhanced customer service. From helping to coordinate parking during soccer seasons to maintaining outdoor gardens during the dry seasons to manning the Front Desk during our busiest timeframes, Saiid's contributions on the weekends are invaluable to the flow of Spring Hill's operations. Saiid is peace of mind. Whenever he is on duty, we know no matter what we need that day, Saiid embraces the task with pure charm and gusto. Weekends at Spring Hill present challenges unlike any other days. If our Park Authority budget had a dime for every time staff has said to Saiid, "Oh My Gosh, Thank Goodness you're here!" we would never have another budgetary concern. Amid the craziness we call everyday life at the RECenter, Saiid proves day in day out how incredibly dependent we are upon our volunteers. Saiid is an extraordinary example of our mantra, "Volunteers Power Our Parks." VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE THE BENEFITS OF... Free RECenter facility use: Volunteers who maintain an average of four hours of service per week or three weekly classes per class session as an Adapted Aquatics assistant, can use their RECenter’s general facilities free of charge Free RECenter classes: Volunteers who have served a minimum of 32 hours and maintain an average of eight hours of service per week, or volunteer as an Adapted Aquatics assistant for four weekly classes per class session are eligible to take one free FCPA class per session on a space available basis. Family Discount Pass