What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Sports Volunteer position at South Sound YMCA?
Job Details
Job Location: Youth Development - Olympia, WA
Position Type: Seasonal
Salary Range: Undisclosed
Description
To provide an enjoyable and safe sporting experience for an assigned group of athletes while they learn confidence, individual and team games skills, sportsmanship and fair play.
Qualifications
- Possess organizational skills, patience, maturity, and dependability
- Sound Character, strong morals, values, and personal ethics
- Enthusiasm and a positive spirit with a commitment to equal participation
Desired:
- Current CPR/First Aid certification
Tasks and Activities
- Attend the mandatory coaches training
- Show up to all practices and games on time
- Coach an assigned group of children and focus on skill development, safety, fair play, sportsmanship, and fun
- Effectively communicate to the individual team every week with updates about practices, game times and special events
- Use email communication to receive updates from the Youth Sports office and reply to necessary notifications in a timely manner
- Adhere to YMCA policies, rules, and objectives
- Responsible for maintaining care of all YMCA Sports equipment
- Lead by example among team parents to support the responsibilities of the referee and league leadership
- Work to establish and improve team unity and spirit
- Ensure equal playing time for all players, regardless of the score
- Uphold the YMCA mission and philosophy during practices and games to set positive examples for athletes
