Volunteer Assistant Softball Coach (Non Paid Position)

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, so that with appropriate training, service may be provided in the specific role for which employed.
• Meets necessary health and physical qualifications.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• 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.
• 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.