Youth Sports Coach - Kirk Family YMCA

Description

• Under the guidance of the Youth and Family Coordinator, the youth sports assistant plans and implements instructional age-appropriate sports programs to participants.
• ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
  • Ensures proper technique and safe teaching skill development.
  • Explains and demonstrates use of apparatus and equipment.
  • Explains and demonstrates principles, techniques and methods of regulating movement of body, hands, or feet to achieve proficiency in sport of basketball, soccer and t-ball.
  • Observe participants during practice to detect and correct mistakes always encouraging positive feedback.
  • Explains and enforces safety rules and regulations.
  • Explains basic fundamentals of the sport of basketball.
  • Keeps records of attendance.
  • Follows YMCA Youth Sport Philosophy at all times.
  • Notify supervisor of any damaged equipment or shortages.
  • Wear appropriate activity attire and footwear.
  • Arrive 5-minutes prior to your shift.
  • Motivate and encourage participants with positive feedback.
  • Execute Branch emergency action plan as necessary.
  • Organize and maintain all equipment.
  • Other duties as assigned.
• WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS

  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Regularly required to talk or hear.
  • Required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle; or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; kick, throw, run or jump and taste or smell.
  • Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and or move up to 45 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.