Assistant Football Coach

Assistant Football Coach

Teach Iowa AGWSR Comm School District - Ackley, Iowa (Open in Google Maps)

Job : 5730479

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 21, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Jun 1, 2026

Title: High School Assistant Football Coach

Reports To: Activities Director & Head Football Coach

The function of a coach is to educate students through participation in interscholastic competition. An interscholastic program should be designed to enhance academic achievement and should never interfere with opportunities for academic success. Each student should be treated with the utmost respect, and his or her welfare should be considered in decisions by the coach at all times.

Demonstrated Experience or Willing to Acquire

Skills:

• Exhibits essential dispositions and ownership of the district mission of “Providing Excellence in Education so that each student will discover Life‑Long Learning and become a self‑respecting, contributing adult member of society.”
• Exhibits essential dispositions of being a collaborative leader and colleague
• Exhibits effective communication skills
• Effective outcomes in providing all students with behavioral and social‑emotional support
• Exhibits patience, tolerance, persistence, and flexibility for effective outcomes for all students
• Exhibits organization, growth mindset, grit, enthusiasm, and self‑reflection for effective outcomes for all students
• Prompt and regular attendance
• Shows appropriate hospitality to all students, parents, colleagues, and stakeholders
• Demonstrate confidentiality as needed and required
• Success in working with students from diverse backgrounds or willingness to acquire these skills.
• Comply with AGWSR Community Schools Board Policy/Regulations and Handbook Policy

Demonstrated Experience or Willingness to Acquire

Skills:

• Monitor athletic performance daily. Use multiple data points to guide and individualize coaching
• To strive always for playing excellence that will produce successful teams or individuals within the bounds of good sportsmanship and mental health of the student
• To ensure growth and development that will raise the number of individual participants; that will give impetus to increasing attendance at each contest and that will enable a program of continuing upkeep and improvement of facilities. This includes keeping an updated inventory of equipment used, needed, and/or desired.
• To provide opportunity for a student to experience success in an activity he or she selects.
• To develop an understanding of the value of activities in a balanced educational process
• Participate in relevant professional development
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible
• Adapt coaching methods and coaching materials to meet athletes' varying needs
• Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems
• Confer with students and parents about the inherent risk of injury and teach proper techniques related to your activity to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury
• Leading through communication to others to convey information effectively
• Using logic, reasoning, and critical thinking to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• The coach shall be aware that he or she has a tremendous influence, for either good or ill, on the education of the student and, thus, shall never place the value of winning above the value of instilling the highest ideals of character (from NFHS)
• The coach shall uphold the honor and dignity of the profession. In all personal contact with students, officials, athletic directors, school administrators, the state high school athletic association, the media, and the public, the coach shall strive to set an example of the highest ethical and moral conduct (from NFHS)
• Represent AGWSR Community Schools effectively in the community, state and nation

All coaches shall adhere to the National Federation of State High School Associations Code of…