Lamar Assistant Cheer Coach (Non-paid position)

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Holds tryouts for team prospects and encourages students to participate.
• Affirms 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.
• Counsels and instructs players, individually and in groups, regarding the rules, regulations, equipment, and techniques of the sport.
• Maintains eligibility forms, emergency data cards, physicals, equipment/uniform inventory, and other related records.
• Maintains communication with the Principal and Athletic Director regarding policies, procedures, performances, and problems.

Physical Demands

• 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.
• Pushing and/or pulling.
• Climbing.
• Stooping, kneeling and/or crawling.
• Reaching.
• Talking.
• Hearing.
• Sight.

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.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

Capacity And Ability Requirements

• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles.
• Ability to reason and make judgments.
• Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them.
• Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully.
• To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
• 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.