Elizabethton City Schools Position Posting

Job Title: EHS Head Volleyball Coach

Reports to: Building Principal & EHS Athletic Director

Job Summary:

Position is responsible for planning, organizing, and scheduling for all aspects of the EHS Volleyball program. Other responsibilities include conducting practices, motivating students, and instructing student athletes in game strategies and techniques. Must have an active teaching license

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

Experience as an assistant or head coach at the high school or college level preferred. Must possess effective coaching techniques and skills. Must possess an understanding and knowledge of the 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.

Essential Duties & 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. The duties below do not represent an all-inclusive list:

• Make certain the members of the team understand the rules, regulations, use of equipment, and techniques of the sport.
• Organizes and directs individual and small group practice activities/exercises.
• Assesses athlete's skills, monitors students during competition and practice and keeps tother coaches informed of the athletic performance of students.
• Supervising athletes during practices and competition.
• Follows established procedures in the event of an injury.
• Models' sportsman-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/athletes.
• Participates in special activities to include parent's night, banquets, award nights, and other gatherings, meetings, and assemblies.
• Performs tasks such as distributing and maintaining eligibility forms, emergency data cards and other related records.
• Models' nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.

Other Duties:

• Attends staff development meetings, clinics and other professional activities to improve coaching performance.

• Performs any other duties as assigned by the Athletic Director, Principal or other appropriate member of the administration.

Working Conditions & 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 the shoulder.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT DR. JONATHAN MINTON, EHS PRINCIPAL, AT:

jon.minton@ecschools.net