Varsity Dive Coach — Inspire Elite Athletes (Part-Time)

Braintree High School; Braintree (MA); On-site; USD 2,000 - 5,000; Part time

Job summary

Braintree High School in Massachusetts is seeking a Varsity Dive Coach to instruct student-athletes in fundamental skills, strategy, and training for individual and team success. This one-year position emphasizes discipline, sportsmanship, and well-being of players, with supervision during practices, games, and travel.

Responsibilities include planning practices, enforcing MIAA rules, maintaining records, coordinating equipment and budget, monitoring academics, and promoting community relations.

Qualifications

• Employment as a teacher in the system is preferred but not required.
• Successful previous experience as a player or coach, preferably in the assigned sport.
• Must have substantial knowledge of the technical aspects and procedures pertinent to the particular sport including rules of Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA).
• A proven ability to work in a polite and friendly manner with various constituencies: i.e., students, teachers, parents, administrators and the community or public.
• Availability to meet practice and contest schedule as necessary.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the School District may find appropriate and acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Reports to the Head Coach, Athletic Director and/or Headmaster as appropriate.
• Plan and schedule a regular program of sports practice and interscholastic contests as prescribed by the Athletic Department.
• Institute the established fundamental philosophy, skill, and technique training appropriate for student-athletes participating in the particular sport.
• Have knowledge of existing local, league, and state sports regulations and oversee the consistent implementation of such using proper administrative channels.
• Maintain and provide, as assigned, all appropriate documentation and record keeping to fulfill system and/or state requirements including, but not limited to, individual physical examinations, interscholastic registration/permission/medical forms, equipment/uniform inventories and the like.
• Monitor the well-being of players and safeguard school facilities and property in which the assigned sport is conducted; this includes supervision of players at practices, games, while on transportation vehicles and until all players are known to have departed for their homes.
• Oversee and monitor the appropriate and respectful use of all school facilities, sports equipment, and school property inclusive of general cleanliness and the security of such at all time that student-athletes are present.
• Work closely with the Head Coach and Athletic Director in the issuance, collection, inventory and storage of all sport related equipment, supplies, and uniforms.
• Participates with the Head Coach in the development of the budget and recommends the purchase of equipment, supplies, and uniforms in this budget process as appropriate to the particular sport.
• Monitor student-athlete academic progress and other performance criteria for eligibility in interscholastic competition in the particular sport season per state and district regulations.
• Enforce good school citizenship and sportsmanlike behavior at all times and participates in due process procedures concerning potential penalties for the breach of such standards by individual student-athletes.

Skills

Coaching experience

Experience as player

Team leadership

Job description

Braintree High School in Massachusetts is seeking a Varsity Dive Coach to instruct student-athletes in fundamental skills, strategy, and training for individual and team success. This one-year position emphasizes discipline, sportsmanship, and well-being of players, with supervision during practices, games, and travel.

Responsibilities include planning practices, enforcing MIAA rules, maintaining records, coordinating equipment and budget, monitoring academics, and promoting community relations.