Assistant Boys Basketball Coach

About the role

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

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.

Requirements

• Not less than a high school education or general equivalency diploma.
• At least one (1) year of experience is preferred, but not required.
• Meets necessary health and physical qualifications.

Qualifications

• Vocational Preparation: May come from 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; adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.
• Capacity and Ability Requirements: Intelligence: 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.