Position Type: Extra Duty/Coach Cheerleading Head
Date Posted: 5/12/2025
Location: Smith-Cotton High School
Date Available: 08/01/2025
Closing Date: Until filled
Head Coach Job Overview - Extra Duty Salary Schedule
- Employed for a period of the length of assigned sport as determined by athletic coordinator and/or administrator
- Reviewed annually with recommendation for re-employment in May
- Reports to Athletic Coordinator and/or Administrator
Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree
- Teacher Certification by the State of Missouri
- Understanding of the relationship of the sports program to the total school program and its goal
- Capacity to make thoughtful decisions based on facts, knowledge, and insight and the courage to stand by the results
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals, small and large groups, by correspondence or oral expression
- Ability to organize and plan effectively
- Possess an ethical and professional attitude toward colleagues and the policies of the district
Other Working Conditions - Employed the term of the assigned sport with extra duty contract (not covered by tenure provisions)
- Have a full teaching schedule and teaching responsibilities
- Spend the necessary time required to fulfill the duties of the position
- Work cooperatively with administration and staff throughout the district
Responsibilities and Duties - Possess a thorough understanding of, and an ability to relate to, youth
- Capacity to accept criticism calmly and with dignity, and without adopting a defensive attitude
- Provide student supervision, disciplinary guidance, counseling and assistance to self-realization
- Project an inquiring attitude toward the continual development and improvement of the program
- Ability to determine the scope and character of the program in cooperation with the administration
- Administer and be responsible for the budget and expenditures in the sport
- Responsible for the care, storage and inventory of equipment
- Assign, supervise and evaluate assistant coaches
- Responsible for the conduct and discipline of the players
- Cooperate with the athletic coordinator and administration in scheduling activities
- Administer the letter recommendations within the provisions of school lettering policies
- Plan and execute practice sessions, competitive strategy and player assignment
- Execute the plans, policies and specific duties directed by the athletic coordinator and administrators
- Responsible for the administrative details involved in eligibility qualifications and team transportation
- Perform such other tasks and assume such other responsibilities as may from time to time be assigned by athletic coordinator or administrator
DISCLAIMER - This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job. Other duties will be required to be performed as assigned by district administration.