Upper School Girls Varsity Soccer Coach at Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, Oregon

Job Description:

OUR MISSION: Oregon Episcopal School prepares students for higher education and lifelong learning by inspiring intellectual, physical, social, emotional, artistic, and spiritual growth so that they may realize their power for good as citizens of local and world communities.

ABOUT US: Oregon Episcopal School occupies a wooded 59-acre campus where 880 students in Pre-K through 12th Grade share an excellent faculty, an inquiry-based curriculum, and a strong sense of community. The school values employees who seek to continually develop the OES Essential Competencies in students and themselves. As an Episcopal school, we are rooted in a rhythm of gathering and reflection that values and respects all beliefs and cultures. As such, we educate toward a larger purpose-- toward inclusion and respect, service and justice, and commitment beyond

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

Provide a positive learning environment for the athletes
Conduct practices that place emphasis on the importance of teamwork, skill development, learning rules and strategies, and student-athlete improvement.
Travel on team bus to and from all games
Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations
Attend all games and practices scheduled
Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with the entire athletic department & coaching staff
Take necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
Maintain the highest order of professionalism and always display the highest level of ethical and moral behavior including building positive relationships with athletes, staff, parents, and community. The coach will create a student-centered environment and team culture of success as defined by the national coaching standards
Models non-discriminatory practices and sports-like behavior while maintaining appropriate conduct towards students, officials and spectators
Teach sportsmanship, cooperation, work ethic, personal responsibility, and competitiveness to all student-athletes. The coach will also enforce the school and department behavioral and academic expectations of student-athletes
Supervise student-athletes before, during, and after practices and contests
Be at all practices and games on time and not leave until all student-athletes have left
Provides instruction to students of rules, regulations, equipment, and techniques of sport
Organizes and directs individual and small group practice activities/exercises
Assesses students' skills, monitors students during competition and practice
Provides determining game strategy
Work with Athletic Trainer to follow all established procedures in the event of an injury
Supervises and maintains the press box/equipment room in orderly condition and assumes responsibility for its security
Participates in special activities to include Senior Night, End of Season Celebration, award nights
Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

High School diploma or GED
Previous Soccer coaching experience preferred
Reasoning Ability
Ability to communicate with high school students, parents, coaches, and OES staff