Job Details

Middle School Head Coach

Manage and supervise athletic activities, contests, and practice sessions to promote individual growth in athletic skills, teamwork, and good sportsmanship.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Holds tryouts for team prospects and encourages students to participate.
• Assesses skills and determines team members and assigns team positions.
• Develops a regular practice schedule and organizes practice time to provide both individual and team development.
• Coaches and instructs players, individually and in groups, regarding the rules, regulations, equipment, and techniques of the sport.
• Monitors the academic performance of team members to ensure that eligibility requirements are maintained.
• Models sportsmanship-like behavior and reflects appropriate conduct towards players, school community, officials, and spectators regarding policies, procedures, performances, and problems.
• Communicates with the Principal and Athletic Director regarding policies, procedures, performances, and problems.
• Maintains eligibility forms, emergency data cards, physicals, equipment/uniform inventory, and other related records.

Physical Demands: This job requires lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs or more. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing and/or pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling and/or crawling, reaching, talking, hearing, seeing.

Vocational Preparation: The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education, apprentice training, on-the-job training, essential experience in other jobs.

Temperament (Personal Traits): Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Adaptability to dealing with students.

Capacity And Ability Requirements: Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty. Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully. Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures. Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions: Normal working environment.

General Requirements: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so assigned.