Role of Assistant Junior Coach
These are the guidelines of the responsibilities of Assistant Junior Coaches for Farnham Park Baseball and Softball Club.
Responsibilities:
Assistant Junior Coaches are responsible to the Head Junior Coach of Farnham Park Baseball and Softball Club.
Skills required:
- A knowledge and understanding of softball
- Confident with good leadership skills
- Enthusiastic and a good motivator
- The ability to communicate with groups and individuals
- The ability to listen to and mentor people
Main Duties:
- To work with the Head Junior Coach
- To assist with the junior coaching sessions as required
- To develop and maintain high ethical standards in coaching, commit to develop their coaching knowledge and skills and assist in the preparation and running of each session
- To undertake training appropriate to their role, e.g. Child Protection training
- To ensure that all coaching/training sessions take place in a safe environment (undertake risk assessments
- To offer feedback on players’ performances
- To attend competitions with junior teams
- To assist in the selection of teams
- To attend junior club meetings and report to the main committee where appropriate
- To inform the Junior Co-ordinator, in advance, of any sessions/games that can not be attended