Extra Duty: 6th Grade Girls Basketball Coach

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation•Evansville, IN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This is an extra duty position for a 6th Grade Girls Basketball Coach at Helfrich Park Middle School for the 2026-27 school year. The primary function is to develop and implement an exemplary athletic program that provides the highest quality education and growth opportunities for every student athlete. The role involves ensuring compliance with school policies, working cooperatively with staff, relating positively to parents and community, demonstrating professional growth, completing records and reports accurately, accepting responsibilities beyond the team setting, and assuming responsibility for the care of materials, equipment, and facilities. The coach is also responsible for ensuring a clean, orderly, and safe environment. Instructional responsibilities include fostering positive interactions among student-athletes, building supportive relationships with the school and community, demonstrating enthusiasm for coaching and learning, promoting self-direction and self-motivation in students, and creating clearly defined standards of behavior and academic performance. Subject matter expertise includes comprehensive knowledge of basketball, effective instruction, and adapting strategy to student needs. Planning involves developing and sustaining an organized athletic program with long-term planning and utilizing diverse strategies for student athlete development. Delivery includes clearly conveying coaching expectations, explaining their significance, utilizing appropriate coaching techniques, and maintaining a system for monitoring student progress.

Requirements

Prior coaching experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement an exemplary athletic program.
Provide the highest quality education and growth opportunities for every student athlete.
Ensure full compliance with all school and school board policies and regulations.
Work cooperatively with the entire staff.
Relate positively to parents and other community representatives.
Demonstrate professional growth.
Ensure the timely and accurate completion of all required records and reports.
Demonstrate proficiency in standard English, both spoken and written.
Accept and fulfill responsibilities beyond the team setting as they pertain to school expectations.
Assume responsibility for care of materials, equipment, and facilities.
Ensure a clean, orderly, and safe environment that supports the well-being of all student athletes.
Foster and model positive interactions among student-athletes while building supportive relationships with the school and community.
Demonstrate enthusiasm for coaching and learning.
Promote self-direction and self-motivation in students, empowering them to take responsibility for their learning, growth, and success.
Create clearly defined standards of behavior and academic performance.
Exhibit comprehensive knowledge of the sport or area being coached, ensuring effective instruction and guidance for student athletes.
Effectively adapt instruction of strategy and fundamentals to align with the individual needs, abilities, and interests of student-athletes.
Develop and sustain an organized athletic program guided by well structured, long term planning.
Demonstrate effective planning and organization while employing a diverse range of appropriate strategies and resources to enhance student athlete development.
Clearly convey fundamental coaching expectations to student athletes and explain their significance for personal, athletic, and academic growth.
Utilize appropriate and varied coaching techniques and learning activities.
Maintain an effective system of monitoring student progress and to inform appropriate persons.