About the Role
The Volleyball Coach leads Bank Street’s Upper School Volleyball Clinic, conducting weekly practices and coaching games throughout the fall season. This role is well suited to a dynamic coach with experience working with 5th through 8th grade students and an understanding of social and emotional learning.
Responsibilities
- Create and submit practice plans
- Conduct practices and coach games two to three days per week
- Set up and clean up equipment and facilities before and after practices and games
- Implement appropriate safety measures to ensure the well-being of students
- Supervise students and staff members throughout the sports clinic
- Build relationships with students, faculty, and family members
- Serve as an effective communicator who can mentor students
- Model professional leadership and encourage positive behavior by adhering to Bank Street rules and regulations
- Oversee the dismissal of students after every practice and game
- Communicate weekly with families via email
- Handle administrative responsibilities as necessary
- Uphold Bank Street’s principles and values of equity, diversity, and inclusion
Requirements
- High school diploma
- Experience playing or coaching volleyball with youth athletes or school-age children
- Availability to attend all team practices, games, and meetings across the fall season
- Current First Aid and CPR certification, or the ability to obtain certification prior to the start of the season
- Willingness to collaborate as part of a team and to develop skills in working with individual children, small groups, and the whole group
Skills
- Sportsmanship
- Integrity
- Youth development
- Social and emotional learning
- Communication
- Mentorship
- Leadership
- Equity
- Diversity
- Inclusion
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Part-time
- Hourly
Experience Level
- Experience working with 5th through 8th grade students
Education Level
- High school diploma
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- Head Coach: $40 – $50 per hour
- Assistant Coach: $25 – $30 per hour
About the Company
- A leader in progressive education for more than 100 years, the Bank Street School for Children provides students, from nursery through 8th grade, an education that engages their natural curiosity, nurtures critical thinking, and helps to develop a sense of community and social responsibility.
- Through a teaching approach that is fundamentally hands-on and child-centered, Bank Street students develop the courage and confidence to think independently, work collaboratively, understand themselves and others more deeply, and possess the compassion to make meaning of the world around them.
- Bank Street is a leader in education, a pioneer in improving the quality of classroom practice, and a national advocate for children and their families.
- Since its beginnings in 1916, Bank Street has been at the forefront of understanding how children learn and grow.
- From early childhood centers and schools to hospitals and museums, Bank Street has built a national reputation on the simple fact that our graduates know how to do the work that is right for children.
- At Bank Street’s Graduate School of Education, students are trained in a model that combines the study of human development, learning theory, and sustained clinical placement to promote significant development as a teacher prior to graduation.
- Our children’s programs—Bank Street School for Children, Family Center, Bank Street Head Start, and Liberty LEADS—foster children’s development in the broadest sense by providing diverse opportunities for social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth.
- The Bank Street Education Center disrupts inequity through system-level change to help design better educational experiences for both children and adults.
- The College further supports and influences positive outcomes for children every day through professional development programs, research projects, and other key efforts engaging educators, intermediary organizations, and government officials at the district, state, and federal levels.
