Head Football Coach - Sumter

Head Football Coach – Sumter High

SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT

Head Football Coach, Exempt

• Minimum of three years of coaching experience.
• Must possess or demonstrate the qualifications to obtain South Carolina educator certification.
• Alternate qualifications acceptable at Board discretion.

Athletic Director / Principal

• Builds and maintains a productive sports program. Provides and ensures the maintenance of adequate and safe areas of play. Ensures that all participants undergo thorough conditioning and proper education on the fundamentals of the sport.
• Provides leadership and assists principal in selection, assignment, and evaluation of athletic coaches and staff members.
• Fosters good school-community relations by keeping the community aware of and responsive to the athletic program.
• Assumes responsibility for organization and scheduling of all interscholastic athletic events.
• Assumes responsibility for contracting officials, team physicians and law enforcement as required, and assumes general responsibility for the supervision of home games.
• Responsible for the health and safety of student athletes. Ensures proper safety and first aid procedures are followed at all times. Follows all appropriate emergency procedures. Makes sure that all participants have a valid physical examination before participation.
• Promotes and maintains positive relationships with parents and student athletes.
• Conducts parent meetings prior to the beginning of the season.
• Ensures that the sports program complies with the rules and regulations of the school and District, the South Carolina High School League, affiliated Conference and Region.
• Complies with all other legal requirements of school athletic programs. Communicates to members of his/her team all policies, rules, procedures, and requirements as they pertain to the team.
• Ensures appropriate behavior of assigned coaching staff, players, and other team personnel at all times.
• Ensures effective practice organization.
• Works to accommodate the needs of the media and the sports program through media exposure.
• Ensures punctual attendance at scheduled coaches’ meetings and rules clinics. Promotes the sports program by performing “extra” activities, such as sponsoring fundraisers, sponsoring youth camps, attending team camps, etc. Promotes and supports the school’s booster club.
• Willingly performs other duties as assigned or requested.

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations. Requires mobility.
• Data Conception:
  Requires ability to compare or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communications:
  Requires ability to speak and signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and direction to subordinates and receiving from supervisor.
• Language Ability:
  Requires ability to read a variety of laws, policies and procedures, technical and professional studies, reference books and publications. Requires ability to prepare performance appraisals, policies, strategic plans, complex reports, schedules, correspondence, etc. with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
• Intelligence:
  Requires ability to apply logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; interpret technical instructions in mathematical, schedule or diagrammatic form; deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, follow and give verbal and written instructions; counsel and teach employees and students.
• Numerical Aptitude:
  Requires ability to add and subtract totals, multiply and divide, use mathematical formulas, determine percentages and decimals and determine time.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude:
  Requires ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape and visually read information.
• Motor Coordination:
  Requires ability to coordinate hands and eyes…