High School Speech & Debate Coach — Lead a 90-Year Legacy

Cardinal Gibbons High School; Colorado; On-site; USD 2,000 - 4,000; Part time

Job summary

Littleton High School is seeking a qualified assistant coach to help run the Speech and Debate Club. Ideal candidates have strong debate experience and can balance progressive and traditional styles, with encouragement for those not strictly focused on debate.

This position involves staying informed on rules, meeting with students regularly, and judging at tournaments. It requires teaching theories and skills, conducting practices, and collaborating with other coaches to grow the program.

Qualifications

• Strong debate experience and ability to balance progressive and traditional styles.
• Comfort with public speaking and event formats.

Responsibilities

• Stay informed on rules and judging standards for forensic events and set practice expectations for students entering tournaments.
• Meet with students regularly, about 2x per week.
• Supervise and judge weekend and evening tournaments, roughly 11 events per season, mostly Saturdays with some Fridays.
• Oct–Apr flexibility on total events attended.
• Teach theories and skills of various competition events and support research for competitions.
• Lead practices to reinforce and assess skill development.
• Continuously assess program strengths and weaknesses to drive yearly improvement.
• Coordinate with other speech/debate coaches to support team goals.

Skills

Debate experience

Public speaking

Event knowledge

Job description

Littleton High School is seeking a qualified assistant coach to help run the Speech and Debate Club. Ideal candidates have strong debate experience and can balance progressive and traditional styles, with encouragement for those not strictly focused on debate.

This position involves staying informed on rules, meeting with students regularly, and judging at tournaments. It requires teaching theories and skills, conducting practices, and collaborating with other coaches to grow the program.