Junior High Assistant Softball Coach -

Season dates: 07/29/2024-10/26/2024

Stipend amount for the season $1,568.32

Position: Eater Junior High Assistant Softball Coach

Reports to: Head Softball Coach, Supervision Received: Head Softball Coach, Athletic Director & Principal

Job Summary:

Position is responsible for assisting the head coach with organizing the softball program at the assigned school. Position assists with conducting practices, motivating students, and instructing student athletes in game strategies and techniques.

General Qualifications:

• Attends staff development meetings, clinics and other professional activities to improve coaching performance.
• Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Head Softball Coach, Athletic Director and/or Principal or other appropriate administrator.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:

• Assists the head coach with instructing students in the rules, regulations, equipment, and techniques of the sport.
• Organizes and directs individual and small group practice activities/exercises as directed by the head coach.
• Assesses student’s skills, monitors students during competition and practice, and keeps the head coach informed of the athletic performance of students.
• Assists with determining game strategy.
• Assists the head coach with supervising athletes during practices and competition.
• Follows established procedures in the event of an injury.
• Models sports-like behavior and maintains appropriate conduct towards students, officials, and spectators.
• Maintains the equipment room in orderly condition and assumes responsibility for its security.
• Distributes equipment, supplies, and uniforms to students as directed by the head coach.
• Accompanies and supervises the team to and from all contests.
• Performs support tasks such as distributing and maintaining eligibility forms, emergency information cards, and other related records.
• Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
• Assumes responsibility for a group until all athletes are dressed and have left the building.
• Consults with the Head Coach about any and all orders for team supplies and record keeping.
• Obtains, transports, checks and refills the medical kit to take to all events.
• Orders and supplies the medical kit through the district nurses.

Job Specifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):

Some experience as a softball coach at the junior high or high school level preferred. Must possess effective coaching techniques and skills. Must possess a thorough knowledge of the Illinois rules, regulations, strategies, and techniques of the sport. Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships

with school administrators, parents, and students.

Mental Requirements:

• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) and effectively communicate with co-workers, students, and parents/community members.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Concentrated, exacting mental and visual effort to plan and perform assigned work.
• Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.
• Frequent mental alertness and attention to detail, effectively organizing and prioritizing, meeting crucial deadlines and following up on assignments/tasks.
• Must possess effective written/oral communication and interpersonal skills with ability to deal with all levels of personnel and the general public in a professional and effective manner. Must be able to use initiative and independent judgment within established guidelines
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Remains calm, uses good judgment, and thinks quickly and rationally in difficult and stressful situations.
• Must concentrate on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to make decisions on behalf of the students, staff, and community. Diffuses stressful situations with others. Makes considerable contribution towards establishing positive relationships in all interactions.
• Positively develops cooperation of others. Consistently exceed expectations in response to requests.
• Encourages teamwork and places the success of the team above the individual gain.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school environment or outdoors. Duties may be performed away from school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Physical Requirements:

• Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels, outdoors and on the telephone.
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly
• Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height.
• To be able to bend, to stoop, to sit on the floor, to climb stairs, to walk and to reach overhead.

Background Check and EHR check requried