SCOPE

Serves as head coach for a middle or high school athletic program and reports to the school athletic director and school principal.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES & EVALUATION CRITERIA

• Promotes all sports in the school and community
• Plans the athletic program
• Organizes and supervises all practices and meetings
• Teaches fundamental skills, team play, strategy, and rules and regulations of the game
• Teaches and models good sportsmanship
• Ensures that all students meet all academic eligibility requirements and sports safety requirements including  sports physicals, parent/guardian consent, and student accident insurance coverage and limits
• Keeps informed of all rules and regulations established for middle/high school participation by the KHSAA and BCS
• Completes all coach requirements regarding sports safety including CPR and AED certification and the KHSAA  Sports Safety Course as well as all NFHS course as required by level of education in a timely manner
• Completes all trainings and other compliance requirements as assigned and by the designated deadline
• Performs all other duties as assigned by Principal and/or Athletic Director

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The work is performed while standing or walking. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping,  pushing and pulling of arm controls and fine manipulations. The work is repetitive. The work, at times, requires  bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching with the ability to lift, carry, push and pull light weights. The work  requires activities involving exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity and driving automotive  equipment. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 64 (sixty-four) semester hours of credit from an accredited college or university or training as  required and approved by the KHSAA

• NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching

• Effective communication skills