Women's Volleyball Coach
JOB TITLE: Women’s JV and Women's Frosh/Soph Volleyball Coaches - Part Time
REPORTS TO: Director of Athletics
ABOUT ATHENIAN
The Athenian School is an independent college preparatory boarding and day school that serves students in grades 6 - 12, from throughout the East Bay, California, the US and the world. Since our founding, we have been dedicated to educating students through experiential, collaborative and interdisciplinary learning. We foster critical thinking and value reasoned discourse, and mutual respect. Please read through our site to learn more about our community. We look forward to meeting you as you consider Athenian!
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Athenian School seeks two part-time coaches to help develop our women’s JV and Frosh/Soph Volleyball teams with the primary aim of ensuring an accessible, equitable, inclusive and competitive experience for all participants.This candidate will help student-athletes to develop good sportsmanship, become positive role models, stress team over individual achievement, and promote overall team success and values.
This person will work collaboratively with the Athletics Department, other coaches, faculty and staff to nurture participation and growth from all athletes. Responsibilities include practice plans, game management, statistics management, and program coordination and communication with coaches, parents, student-athletes, faculty and staff. Coaches manage uniform and team equipment needs, post match results to the website, and manage the team website. Must be available for practice during weekdays from 3:00-6:00pm and travel with team to away matches departing as early as 2:00pm and returning as late as 9:00pm.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
We seek candidates that have experience coaching at the high school (grades 9-12) or college level. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills as well as technological fluency. They will model flexibility, a mission-aligned approach to supporting student growth and strong initiative. They will possess the ability to collaborate effectively with students and colleagues, a clear love of athletics, and an understanding of and appreciation for working with adolescents. Candidates must also have a passion for working with adolescents and a commitment to democracy, justice, equity, inclusion, service, and environmental stewardship.
BENEFITS, COMPENSATION, PROFESSIONAL GROWTH & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Athenian provides excellent benefits and salaries are competitive and commensurate with work experience and education. The stipend for this role ranges from $3,000 - $3500. Community members enjoy meals on campus and use of athletics facilities, including a pool, gym and fitness center.
All employees are expected to attend all-school functions relevant to their role and to participate in supporting the student experience with other school duties as requested by their direct supervisor.
NON DISCRIMINATION COMMITMENT
The Athenian School is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to basing judgments concerning the employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities. The School is firmly committed to equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and applicants in all areas of employment. The School does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic characteristic or genetic information, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.