Sport Coordinator & Official
i9 Sports - Greater Baton Rouge East, LA
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Salary
$18 / HOUR
Quick overview
The Sports Coordinator enhances the i9 Sports Experience by building relationships with players, parents, and coaches while ensuring instructional aspects are delivered, which includes observing, assessing, and assisting coaches. This position involves hands-on involvement with practices and games across all age groups and skill levels, as well as officiating youth games when assigned.
Requirements summary
Candidates must possess excellent communication skills, sport-specific coaching experience, and knowledge, along with being highly motivated self-starters capable of independent problem-solving. The role requires the ability to take charge to ensure player safety, maintain a positive attitude, and build professional relationships, with a commitment to working approximately 4 hours every Saturday and some weekday evenings for the season duration.
Job description
- Benefits/Perks
- A team-based atmosphere with a focus on Fun!
- Opportunity to foster community-based relationships
- Online training opportunities
Company Overview Founded in Tampa, Florida, i9 Sports® is the nation's first and largest youth sports league franchise business in the United States with over 1 million registrations in more than 500 communities from New York to Hawaii. Established in 2003 by Frank Fiume on the principle that the number one reason kids play organized sports is to have fun, not to become the next draft pick.
i9 Sports offers you sports leagues, camps, and clinics for kids ages 3-14 in today's most popular sports such as flag football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and baseball. With our focus on fun, safety, convenience, and good sportsmanship, i9 Sports is reinventing the youth sports experience for families across the country. It's the way youth sports should be. What does your company do?
- Job Summary The Sports Coordinator is responsible for enhancing the i9 Sports Experience for players and coaches.
- The Sports Coordinator will need to build relationships with players, parents, and coaches while making sure that the instructional aspects of the i9 Sports Experience are delivered.
- Observing, assessing, and assisting our coaches is paramount.
- The position entails hands-on involvement with practices and games among all age groups and skill levels.
- It will also involve officiating youth games as assigned. i9 Sports will provide training on all aspects of the role.
Responsibilities
- Empower volunteer coaches to lead practice sessions focusing on fundamentals, skill development, and fun
- Teach & demonstrate core concepts including Sportsmanship values (as guided by the i9 Sports app and training)
- Supervise the overall operation of designated sport on game day
- Understand & enforce the i9 Sports rules books (soccer, flag football, & baseball/t-ball) ensuring a fun, learning, and safety environment for all players
- Keep time and score during the game (as assigned); manage an age-appropriate level of instruction and competition
- Consistently demonstrate a positive attitude and superior customer service skills
Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills
- Sport-specific coaching experience & knowledge
- Highly motivated self-starter; can work independently & solve problems
- Awareness & ability to take charge of any situation to ensure the safety of players
- Positive attitude and a strong ability to build professional relationships
- Ability to work 4 hours every Saturday and some possible weekday evenings for a duration of the season (at least 7-8 weeks) with opportunity to stay onboard for next season.
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Each franchised location is independently owned and operated and is solely and exclusively responsible for determining local hiring decisions, compensation, benefits, and other terms of employment.
Compensation
$18.00 per hour
- With over 3.5 million registrations in communities across the country, i9 Sports is the nation's largest multi-sport provider focused solely on high-quality, community-based youth sports programs.
- We offer youth sports leagues, camps and clinics for kids ages 3 and up in today's most popular sports such as: flag football, soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, and lacrosse.
- To achieve our mission of helping kids succeed in life through sports, i9 Sports provides a youth sports experience unlike any other, teaching the importance of good sportsmanship on the field and in life.
- We are committed to providing age-appropriate instruction, making sports fun for kids, and convenient for today's busy families.
- To us, it's The Way Youth Sports Should Be.
Each franchised location is independently owned and operated and is solely and exclusively responsible for determining local hiring decisions, compensation, benefits, and other terms of employment.
Benefits
- Online Training Opportunities
- Team-based Atmosphere
- Focus on Fun
- Opportunity to Foster Community-based Relationships