Ability: required to communicate with persons of varied educational and cultural backgrounds, dealing with frequent interruptions, exhibiting strong leadership, maintaining confidentiality, meeting deadlines and schedules, modeling sportsmanship and enforcing sportsmanlike behavior among students, motivating participating student athletes, providing a firm, fair, and consistent discipline approach, providing leadership direction and team building, traveling to off-campus athletic events, traveling to off-campus competitions, and working extended hours that may include evenings and/or weekends. Purpose Statement The position of Head Coach is done for the purposes of implementing the athletic program for assigned sports in accordance with applicable rules and regulations, providing supervision of other coaching personnel, providing supervision of students during all aspects of the program, using sound instructional techniques in overseeing program activities, serving as a positive role model to student athletes, and serving in a liaison capacity for the school and program with other schools both within and/or outside the district to the community and to various organizations.