High School Assistant Golf Coach

ALBANY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ONE Laramie, Wyoming

JOB DESCRIPTION

High School Assistant Golf Coach

POSITION SUMMARY

The High School Assistant Golf Coach is responsible for providing instruction and coaching to students as a means of developing golf skills and contributing to all student athlete success in the classroom and on the field. The Assistant Golf Coach is further responsible for ensuring and encouraging sportsmanlike conduct amongst all students and staff.

This position is posted for the 2022-2023 school year.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The High School Assistant Golf Coach:

• Uses a variety of coaching techniques and methods along with media to meet the needs of student athletes and the golf program as a means of improving the abilities of student athletes in the assigned sport. • Assists with the supervision of all high school golf activities, contests, and practice sessions to promote individual growth in athletic skills, teamwork, discipline, respect, and good sportsmanship. • Works with other members of school staff to plan and put in place instructional goals and objectives to ensure overall educational development of student athletes. • Follows performance criteria for competition and evaluates student athletic abilities on an initial and regular basis. • Helps to ensure all necessary precautions and safeguards are in place to protect student athletes, equipment, materials, and facilities. • Helps to monitor and enforce student eligibility criteria for extracurricular participation. • Assists in the development and coordination of a continuing system of evaluations of all coaches within the golf program and makes changes based on findings and the ongoing needs of the golf program. • Accompanies and supervises student athletes during athletic competitions in assigned sports when traveling to compete. • Helps maintain a regular system of files containing all material relevant to the golf program, including eligibility forms, transfer forms, grade reports, and ensures that all ACSD1 District policies are followed. • Applies and enforces student discipline during athletic contests, practice sessions, and while on trips of school property in accordance with ACSD1 policies and the student handbook. • Encourages sportsmanlike conduct in all phases of athletic participation. • Assists in the maintenance and inventory of all fixed assets of the golf program. • Assists in the process of cleaning, repairing, and storing all program athletic equipment.

Annually establishes and meets performance goals.

Other duties as assigned.

TASKS LISTED UNDER THE HEADING OF CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE EXAMPLES OF THE VARIETY AND GENERAL NATURE OF DUTIES PERFORMED BY EMPLOYEES IN POSITIONS ALLOCATED TO THE CLASSIFICATION. THIS SPECIFICATION SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED TO DESCRIBE ALL OF THE DUTIES WHICH MAY BE ASSIGNED TO AN EMPLOYEE AT THIS LEVEL NOR SHOULD PERSONS ASSIGNED BE EXPECTED TO Necessarily PERFORM ALL THE DUTIES DESCRIBED.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

Ability to use effective communication skills, robust knowledge of the sport of golf, including strategy, rules, and coaching ability, to use time effectively, good organizational skills, ability to maintain a positive relationship with other staff by collaborating and working cooperatively with them, including supervisors, knowledge of physiological, psychological, emotional, and educational behavioral development of children and/or adolescents, and ability to help coaches achieve consensus.

ENTRY QUALIFICATION

Mandatory Candidate must hold or be eligible to hold a Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTS) endorsement as a Head Coach-Golf Assistant Coach-Golf or a Head Coach endorsement in another sport. Preferred, 1 year of experience as a high school golf coach. Valid Wyoming teaching certification, Bachelors degree in a related field.

PHYSICAL ABILITIES AND WORKING CONDITIONS

The Physical Abilities and Working Conditions listed in this section are representative of but are not intended to provide an exhaustive list of Physical Abilities and Working Conditions which may be required for this position. Albany County School District 1 encourages persons with disabilities who are interested in employment for this position and need reasonable accommodation of those disabilities to contact the Chief Human Resources Officer for further information.

• Vision, which may be corrected to read small print, view a computer screen for prolonged periods.
• Hearing, which may be corrected to answer telephones and tolerate exposure to noisy conditions.
• Speech to be understood in face-to-face communications to speak with a level of proficiency and volume to be understood over a telephone.
• Upper Body Mobility, use hands and fingers to feel, grasp, and manipulate small objects, manipulate fingers, twist, and bend at the wrist and elbow, extend arms to reach outward and upward, use hands and arms to lift objects, turn, raise, and lower the head.
• Strength to lift, push, pull, and/or carry objects which weigh as much as 50 or more pounds on a frequent basis.
• Environmental Requirements, encounter constant work interruptions, work cooperatively with others, work independently, work outdoors, and indoors.
• Mental Requirements, read, write, understand, interpret, and apply information at a moderately complex level, essential for successful job performance, math skills at a high school proficiency level, judgement, and the ability to process information quickly, learn quickly, and follow verbal procedures and standards, give verbal instruction, rank tasks in order of importance, copy, compare, compile, and coordinate information and records.

ADDITIONAL WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL ABILITIES REQUIRES TRAVEL TO MULTIPLE SITES.

EVALUATION

Evaluation of this position shall be by the High School Athletic Director, Head Coach.