Parks and Rec Coach

County Of Albemarle • Charlottesville, VA

2d

About The Position

The Middle School Coach organizes, leads, supervises, and teaches recreational sports to middle school students. Sports include basketball, cross country, flag football, soccer, track, and volleyball. The coach teaches sport-specific skills through instruction, drills, scrimmages, practices, and games, while promoting teamwork, sportsmanship, cooperation, work ethic, personal responsibility, and healthy competitiveness. The role involves regular communication with students and adults, including parents, and requires dependable supervision of students.

Requirements

• Personal skills that support positive relationships with middle school students, parents, and the community.
• Knowledge of the principles of individual and team fundamentals for the listed sports.
• Ability to organize and prepare practice schedules.
• Ability to develop and maintain discipline emphasizing teamwork and good sportsmanship.
• Ability to organize, promote, lead, supervise, and teach recreational sports to middle school students.
• Ability to secure cooperation and communicate with students and adults.
• Dependability, initiative, and resourcefulness.
• Frequent walking and standing; some lifting and carrying of objects weighing 12–20 pounds; daily participation in leading practices and games.

Responsibilities

• Organize, promote, lead, supervise, and teach recreational sports to middle school students.
• Teach sport-specific skills, run drills and scrimmages, and lead practices and games.
• Organize and prepare practice schedules.
• Teach and encourage teamwork, sportsmanship, cooperation, work ethic, personal responsibility, and competitiveness.
• Maintain discipline and secure cooperation and communication with students and adults.
• Provide constant supervision of students and maintain contact with parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed