What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Golf Coach position at Janesville Waldorf Pemberton School District?
- Hold organizational meetings for team prospects and encourage potential athletes to participate in the sport.
- Follow schedule set by activities director for practice and competition facilities.
- Plan effective and organized practices that maximize coaches and players abilities, and properly prepare team for competitions.
- Assess athletes’ readiness for practice and competition. Practice plans should include progression of skill development and conditioning improvement.
- Be physically present to provide supervision. Supervision must be included on the field of play, locker room, training room, and anywhere the sport requires them to be. Athletes must be denied access when coach cannot be physically present to supervise.
- Athletic practice must be characterized by instruction that accounts for a logical sequence of fundamentals that consider the developmental level of the athlete and that lead to an enhanced progression of player knowledge, skill, and capability. Instruction must move from simple to complex and known to unknown.
- Practices must account for a progression of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal conditioning regimens that prepare athletes sequentially for more challenging practices and competitive activities. Consideration must be given to student readiness and maturational factors. In addition, consideration should include weather conditions and their impact on student health. Athletes should not be subjected to intense or prolonged conditioning during periods of extreme heat and humidity, or when frostbite may be a factor. *Injured athletes who require the services of a physician may not return to practice or competition without written permission of the physician.
- Properly prepare to provide appropriate and sequential instruction and identify and avoid dangerous practices or conditions. Instructors must demonstrate appropriate and safe techniques and must include warning about unsafe techniques and prohibited practices.
- Athletes should be matched with consideration for maturity, skill, age, size, and speed. To the degree possible, mismatches should be avoided in all categories.
- Control impulsive behavior, give competent instruction, provide structured practices that are appropriate for the age and maturity of athletes.
- Practices are to include JWP Core Values and principles transcending the field of play to the best of one’s ability.
- Assess equipment so it functions and works properly. Also, maintain inventory of all equipment and uniforms. All uniforms are distributed by a school board approved coach and are all collected at the end of the season. Equipment should fit in accordance with the manufacturer’s specifications. Athletes must wear protective equipment any time they are exposed to the full rigors of contact in practice or competitions. Any defective equipment should not be used and reported to the activities director.
- Communicate effectively with players, coaches, activities department, and parents about expectations, goals of the program, practices, changes in the schedule, and games.
- Provide proper transportation, along with the activities department, to and from competitions. Athletes must travel with team to event site as a team, unless prior approval and written permission from guardians and activities director. Athlete must sign out with coach after competition to leave with parents/relatives. Athlete must have guardian approval, guardian note, and coach approval to leave with non-family members.
- Create game strategies that best fit team’s capabilities
- Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
- Complete the Emergency Action Plan to use during practices on and off site.
- Complete all learning modules on the Coach’s Clipboard on MSHSL.
- Expected to be able to administer accepted, prioritized, standard first aid procedures in response to a range of traumatic injuries - especially those that are potentially life-threatening.
- Monitors the academic performance of team members to ensure that eligibility requirements are met; and encourage student athletes to maintain a high academic standard.
- Conferences with guardians, as necessary, regarding the athletic performance of their student.
- Follow state, section, and school regulations governing the athletic program.
- Follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or Athletic Director or the appropriate administration.
JobID: 1540
Position Type:
Athletics/Activities/Coaching
Athletics/Activities/Coaching
Date Posted:
1/29/2025
1/29/2025
Location:
Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Schools
Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Schools
Date Available:
03/17/2025
03/17/2025
General Definition of Work
Responsible for coaching student athletes in meet strategies and techniques to prepare them for athletic competition, life, and future athletic competition. Position teaches student athletes to develop an appreciation of the sport. The Assistant Golf coach will primarily be working with junior varsity and junior high golf teams, while assisting the Head Golf Coach with the varsity program. The coach will travel with the team to every meet. Practices will be at Prairie Ridge Golf Course in Janesville, MN.
Qualification Requirements
Perform essential functions listed below satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to perform the essential job functions.
Essential Functions
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Thorough knowledge of District’s Activities Handbook, and the coaching of the sport.
Education and Experience
Playing or coaching experiences is preferred, but not required.
Physical Requirements
This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires standing, walking, sitting, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and reaching with hands and arms and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts and observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to extreme cold (non-weather), exposure to extreme heat (non-weather), exposure to the risk of electrical shock, exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment and Exposure to bodily fluids; work is generally in a moderately noisy location.
Stipend Position- Assistant Coach: $4,000
