Volunteer Head Coach - Basketball

Essential Functions

• Designing and implementing basic sports strategies.
• Scheduling team practices and games.
• Ensuring all team members get equal playing time.
• Improving team unity and sportsmanship.
• Teaching young athletes the fundamentals of the sport.
• Emphasizing skills development including safety, fair play, and sportsmanship.
• Setting realistic and age-appropriate expectations for team members.
• Ensuring the safety of the team during practice sessions and games.
• Planning and supervising games and practices.
• Informing players/parents about games, practices, events, cancellations, and make-ups.
• Supervising assistant coaches and team parents.
• Ensuring proper sideline behavior from team members and parents.
• Promoting the values of responsibility and commitment, and emphasizing the importance of academics first and foremost.
• Encouraging the involvement of parents in the sport as volunteers for ride-sharing, fundraising, etc.
• Providing a safe and fun environment for the children.
• Learning and following ALL association and league rules, policies, and procedures.
• Attending all association and league meetings, classes, and functions.
• Assuming responsibility for equipment that has been provided by the City of College Park.
• Attending any required training.
• Attending regularly scheduled staff meetings.
• The ability to travel to and from games.
• Informing the Recreation Leader of any problems.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Passion for youth development.
• In-depth knowledge of sporting strategies.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Patient and understanding.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees.
• Must be able to use tact and courtesy in dealing with the public.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate procedures and work processes and to exercise appropriate judgment in establishing priorities and work methods.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and to deal effectively and courteously with others, to work independently and in team settings.
• Ability to type or to use a personal computer with word processing and related software and to enter and retrieve information with reasonable speed and accuracy.
• Moderate physical activity.
• Requires handling objects of average-weight up to fifty (100) pounds, standing, sitting, and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Previous youth coaching or instructional experience is preferred.
• Complete all required training and obtain coach certification and pay the nominal fee for the same.
• First Aid and/or CPR certified.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Experience in communicating with diverse communities, and in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, as well as knowledge and understanding of the organizational structure, workflow, and operating procedures.
• Extensive hours and weekends will be required at times.
• Pre-Employment screening is required: criminal background check and drug testing.