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Description
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Varsity Head Volleyball Coach
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Create an enthusiastic, tight-knit, supportive, hard-working, motivating, character-based, and fun team culture that attracts student participation.
• Build a culture of success through a values-based framework.
• Supervise and instruct sport-specific skills, techniques, strategies and related aspects of athleticism, fitness, health, nutrition, sleep, etc.), utilizing encouraging and age-appropriate methods.
• Model respectful and professional interaction with athletes, colleagues, parents/guardians, opponents, officials, etc.,
• Communicate program information and keep parents/guardians informed and updated through (at least) weekly in-season email correspondence. Cultivate connected and supportive relationships with parents/guardians more generally
• Teach and reinforce sportsmanship and the importance of all team roles among athletes.
• Foster positive and professional relationships and enthusiasm with athletes as well as parents/guardians, colleagues, officials, etc.
• Establish and maintain clear direction and goals for the program, consistent with the NWS culture and community, articulating philosophy, goals, and expectations verbally and in writing with players and parents/guardians.
• Communicate closely with Athletic Director regarding logistical and philosophical plans and details.
• Lead and work collaboratively with program coaches and other colleagues.
• Maintain WIAA coaching standard compliance and continually develop coaching expertise.
• Daily availability during the season for practices and competitions, and occasionally on weekends as needed.
• Understand and adhere to NWS Coaching Handbook protocol and WIAA/NFHS sport rules and regulations.
• Be an energetic self-starter in addressing all details of leading a thriving high school program.
• Current training in First Aid, CPR, concussion management, and sudden cardiac arrest.
• Clear Washington State Background check.
• Desired but not required: Willing and able to drive a small, non-CDL bus for practices and contests.
Compensation/Details: Competitive coaching stipend, based on experience.
This is a stipend only position. Season starts August 25 and ends early/mid-November. There is the opportunity for summer coaching as well, and this is highly encouraged.
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