Middle School Boys Basketball Assistant Coach

Company Description

The Stonehaven School exists to glorify God by cultivating truth, goodness, and beauty in students through a distinctly Christ-centered classical education. Our school is refreshingly unique in its class offerings, thoroughly classical in its approach to learning, and intentionally focused on the cultivation of virtue in our students. The Stonehaven School strives to be the premier classical Christian K-12 school in the Metro Atlanta area with a reputation for Christian virtue and academic excellence. 

The foundational commitments of The Stonehaven School include the following:

• We believe that every aspect of our children's education must be intentionally founded upon biblical truth.
• We are committed to the traditional and long-established, exemplary forms and standards in education handed down from ancient and medieval educators.
• We believe that true education culminates in wise and virtuous students who are being conformed to the image of Christ.
• We are dedicated to teaching and learning with excellence as unto the Lord.
• We believe that true education recognizes that hearts and minds are shaped not only by ideas and knowledge, but also by practices, habits, routines, and liturgies.
• We seek to assist parents in their God-given task of educating their children in the Lord.
• We believe parents should actively participate in the life and community of the school.

The Stonehaven School is a non-profit 501(c)(3), non-denominational, classical Christian school, accredited through both the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) and the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS).

Job Description

We are hiring a part-time Middle School Boys Basketball Assistant Coach to begin work in the 2026-2027 school year. The goal of our coaches is to further instill Christian virtue into the moral fiber of our athletes. Our coaches are not forming and shaping an athlete that can do something but rather an athlete that can be someone. Athletics provides a unique and awesome opportunity to develop discipline, perseverance, and responsibility. A natural result of this focus will be a passionate desire to win and succeed in our athletic endeavors. Our coaches seek to nurture a will toward excellent performance in harmony with good sportsmanship, humility, and grace. We expect all student-athletes and coaches to model Christ-like behavior in victory and defeat. The development of godly character helps point to the ultimate goal of doing it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and giving thanks to the Father through Him (Colossians 3:17). 

Key coach attributes and job responsibilities are as follows: 

Candidate Attributes

• Strives to consistently exhibit love, joy, peace, and spiritual maturity in their daily work and relationships with others in the school
• All coaches will maintain a faithful daily walk with Christ and be active in a local Protestant Christian church
• Will work collaboratively and respectively with all coaches to the glory of God and the betterment of the Stonehaven Basketball program. 

Job Responsibilities

• Host a student interest meeting the fall, at which time basic information on the upcoming season is explained and distributed
• Help organize student participation in our summer program (open gyms and external camps), practices during the season, and games
• Work with team parent-volunteer to ensure that all parents receive timely communication
• Maintain a disciplined and orderly team environment
• Report schedules and results of games to athletic director for school communication
• Ensure the safety and well-being of athletes
• Nurture, love, and guide the students with Biblical principles of competition
• Dress professionally and appropriately as outlined in the staff handbook
• Enforce Stonehaven’s discipline policy as outlined in the staff handbook
• Communicate as needed with parents and athletic director regarding athlete’s progress and behavior
• Promote academic integrity and success

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have coaching experience with a demonstrated passion for training students at the high school level or higher and have a strong knowledge of basketball fundamentals, systems, and player development.

• Accepts without verbal or mental reservations The Stonehaven School’s Statement of Faith and Academic Philosophy and is committed to upholding both.
• Serves Christ under the authority of a local Protestant Christian church whose beliefs and teachings are in fundamental agreement with The Stonehaven School’s Statement of Faith.
• It is expected that the coaches will comply with all applicable policies of The Stonehaven School and with all administrative directives.
• Coaches at The Stonehaven School are expected to possess a love for God, a love for the students they teach, a love for the sport they are coaching, a love for the parents they serve, and a love for the school.

Additional Information

The Stonehaven School does not discriminate in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, age or sex. The school acknowledges that all persons are created in God's image (Genesis 1:27), and He makes no such distinctions (Galatians 3:28) in his redemptive plan for mankind.