Girls Flag Football Head Coach

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Regis Groff is a 4A Athletic Program located in Northeast Denver.

Position: Head Coach

Reports to: Athletic Director

Location: Regis Groff Campus (Coop between KIPP: Northeast Denver Leadership Academy and Rocky Mountain Prep). 18250 E 51st Ave Denver CO 80249

Compensation for Flag Football Head Coach: $3800npaid in installments

KIPP Colorado and Rocky Mountain Prepare Denverbased communities of public charter schools that challenge every student to strive for college and thrive throughout life by helping them to discover and develop the knowledge skills and confidence necessary to succeed in college and beyond.

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

The coach is responsible for the planning directing and leading education based athletic program that seeks to develop athletes of empathy and integrity. Our ideal candidate displays a high degree of empathy communication positivity trust patience responsibility discipline flexibility and interpersonal skills.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE IS:

• Able to lead in environments of change: You consistently bring focus and prioritization to any work you do which provides a strong foundation for moving the work forward concurrently with organizational change and growth. You are judicious yet tenacious in planning and executing and this level of critical thinking enables you to navigate environments that at times may feel ambiguous.
• Driven by a mission to disrupt barriers facing historically disadvantaged students: You do the work you do every day with a deep conviction to address the systemic educational barriers that many students in our city have faced since they entered the school system. Because of this conviction you are a tireless advocate for every student and lead with the belief that every student can achieve.
• A systems builder and thinker: You have experience in developing systems necessary to push work forward. You can break big picture ideas into the necessary parts and construct the systems needed to drive toward bigpicture goals. You also recognize that effective systems include multiple inputs and as a result ensure you collaborate with a variety of stakeholders who bring diverse perspectives and experiences as part of your strategic planning.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Accept and implement cocurricular philosophy of the school.
• Follows the rules and regulations of the school and league of participation.
• Attend mandatory preseason rules meetings.
• Attend postseason coaches meetings.
• Meet with the Athletic Director regularly throughout the season to discuss progress.
• Time sensitive communication with the Athletic Director.
• Utilize provided development opportunities provided by the Athletic Director
• Organize schedule and supervise practice sessions. (minimum: 4 contact nights/week 5 preferred)
• Communicate any practice changes to the Athletic Director.
• Manage staff of assistant coaches and any managers.
• Supervise and be responsible for the equipment in your sport including handing out and collecting uniforms.
• Responsible for reporting scores and stats to MaxPreps within 24 hours of meetcompletion.
• Responsible for communication and dissemination of information to players families and the broader school community as needed related to practice schedules tryout information and any other relevant program information.
• Maintains appropriate supervision of his/her program at all times (locker rooms practices events bus rides etc.. Supervises any and all space used by athletes while they are present including postgame and postpractice.
• Assures that the team will reflect proper attitude and conduct at all times.
• Represents the school in a professional manner in demeanor language and conduct.
• Create and coordinate all offseason development opportunities necessary for building a competitive program.
• Any ad hoc duties assigned by the Athletic Director.

• Experience preferred demonstrable understanding of the sport seeking to coach
• Teamwork and teambuilding skills
• Communication skills
• Unwavering commitment to growing personally and professionally as an antiracist antioppressive organization.

• Bachelor of Arts or Sciences degree
• Speaks Spanish
• Demonstrated success working with students from historically marginalized communities