2025-2026 SMS Assistant Track Coach

Socorro Consolidated Schools

Job Title: Assistant Coach

Required Qualifications:

• Current New Mexico coaching license

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior coaching experience in a successful program (of the same sport)
• Current employment as a licensed teacher by Socorro Consolidated Schools

Supervised By:

Respective Principal/ Athletic Director/Head Coach

Supervises:

NONE

Position Purpose:

Provide students with a successful and rewarding athletic experience that fosters leadership, self-discipline and encourages the highest standards of conduct, academic and athletic achievement.

Essential Job Functions:

• Demonstrate professional knowledge of game rules and strategies
• Demonstrate effective methodology in teaching basic skills and position play
• Demonstrate ability to organize assistant coaches and other team personnel for optimum effectiveness during practices and games/matches/competitions
• Demonstrate knowledge of and compliance with school and NMAA policies, procedures, requirements and regulations of the school athletic program
• Demonstrate the highest standards of ethical conduct, decorum and sportsmanship at all times
• Demonstrate ability to motivate students to achieve in academics AND athletics
• Demonstrate professional knowledge and skill using the safe practice of weight training activities, basic first aid procedures (including CPR)
• Demonstrate ability to establish and maintain positive and effective communication and interpersonal relationships with assistant coaches, students, staff, administration, parents, community and media
• Demonstrate effective supervisory skills and procedures to ensure a safe environment for student participants.
• Demonstrate accountability for care of facilities, keys, uniforms, equipment and supplies
• Demonstrate ability to maintain accurate inventories, manage team finances and prepare and submit reports, requisitions and other required information in compliance with established school procedures and timelines
• Demonstrate interest in self-improvement by engaging in on-going professional growth activities
• Demonstrates the ability to create a program with a long-term vision and create a team cultute of inclusivity

Primary Job Location:

Respective athletic fields and gyms

Evaluation:

Respective Athletic Director, Principal and Head Coach 

Job Title: Assistant Coach

Must be Capable of Working under the Following Unusual Conditions:

• Chemicals/Skin Irritants (Soaps, Cleaning Agents, Etc.)
• Cold/Heat (Outside Work)
• Contact with the Public

Vision Requirements:

• Normal Vision
• Corrected Vision

Hearing Requirements:

• Normal Hearing
• Corrected Hearing

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