About This Role
Heading the baseball program, the Head Baseball Coach is responsible for organizing and supervising all aspects of the sport, including coaching staff, administrative duties, and student athlete development. This role requires a strong commitment to good sportsmanship and fostering positive mental health among student athletes.
Responsibilities
- Have thorough knowledge of all athletic policies approved by the Rowan Salisbury Schools Board of Education and implement them with the team's staff
- Have knowledge of existing system, state, and league regulations; implement them consistently and interpret them for staff
- Understand the proper administrative line of command and refer all requests or grievances through proper channels
- Be aware of all public/staff/departmental meetings that require attendance
- Establish the fundamental philosophy, skills, and techniques to be taught by assistants
- Design conferences, clinics, and staff meetings to ensure staff awareness of the overall program
- Train and inform staff, encouraging professional growth by recommending clinic attendance
- Delegate specific duties, supervise implementation, and analyze staff effectiveness at season's end, evaluating all assistants
- Maintain discipline, adjust grievances, and work to increase morale and cooperation
- Perform other duties as assigned by the athletic director/principal
- Provide proper safeguards for maintenance and protection of assigned equipment sites
- Advise the head coach and recommend policy, method, or procedural changes
- Serve as a mentor to each athlete to promote the development and demonstration of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship
- Give constant attention to student athletes' grades and conduct
- By presence at all practices, games, and while traveling, provide assistance, guidance, and safeguards for each participant
- Provide training rules, schedule, calendar, and any other unique regulations of the sport to each athlete and their parents
- Follow programs and policies concerning injuries, medical attention, and emergencies
- Direct student managers, assistants, and statisticians
- Assist athletes in their college or advanced educational selection
- Be accountable for all equipment
- Properly mark and identify all equipment before issuing or storing
- Monitor equipment rooms and coaches' offices, authorizing who may enter, issue, or requisition equipment
- Permit athletes to only be in authorized areas of the building at appropriate times
- Examine locker rooms before and after practices and games, checking on general cleanliness of the facility
