Coach - MS Cross Country

Position Type:

Athletics/Activities/Coaching

Date Posted:

5/2/2025

Location:

Benton Community Middle - High School

Date Available:

2025-2026 School Year

Closing Date:

Until filled

The Benton Community School District (BCSD) has an opening for the following position: Head MS Cross Country

.

If you have questions about this position, please contact:

Ryan Junge, Middle School Athletic Director

, Ext. #1351

Location: Benton CSD High School

600 1st St.

Van Horne, Iowa 52346

Job Description:TITLE: Head MS Cross Country Coach

REPORTS TO: Activities Director, Principal or designee

JOB GOAL: To coordinate all aspects of the assigned sport and to work cooperatively with all personnel in maintaining a quality program with the policy framework of the school district.

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

Part Time

REPORTS TO: Activities Director, Principal or designee

QUALIFICATIONS:

Certificate, Endorsement, or other legal credential required.

Prior Job experience (if necessary or preferred).

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Enforce all rules of the District, conference, state, and national association as they pertain to the respective activity. Adhere to the beliefs, goals, and vision of the school district for coaching and helping students be the best they can be.

2. Coach individual participants in the skills necessary for excellent achievement in the activity involved.

3. Obtain completed and signed parental permission form, insurance form (if necessary) and physical examination card (if necessary) prior to beginning practice. Have participants fill out the eligibility form.

4. Cooperate with the administration, Activities Director, fellow coaches and students to promote the best interest of the entire activity/athletic program.

5. Have meetings with assistant coaches to coordinate coaching methods at different levels; assign duties to all assistant coaches and assist the activities director in evaluating the performance of assistant coaches in grades 7-12.

6. Conform to the school district’s policy in ordering equipment and supplies for the activity involved.

7. Prepare a roster of all team members.

8. Assume responsibility for conduct of contestants involved in the activity.

9. Assist in the preparation of and administration of the activities program budget.

10. Assume responsibility for student participants until all participants are dressed and/or have left the building. Secure all gates, dressing rooms, locker and gymnasium facilities before leaving the area.

11. Accompany and supervise the team to and from all contests.

12. Conform to District and State policies in handling injuries; reports all serious injuries immediately to the Activities Director.

13. Use proper collection, care and storage of all equipment and uniforms during athletic season. Prepare and delivers a complete inventory of all equipment to the Activities Director at the conclusion of the season.

14. Attend meetings when scheduled by the Activities Director, unless excused by an appropriate supervisor. Attend booster meetings when they do not conflict with coaching.

15. Coordinate and schedule off-season activities, such as, open gym, weight lifting, camps, etc. – and ensure that such are within the rules of the Iowa High School Athletic Association.

16. Keep statements to the press constructive and positive. Student participants or personnel should not be singled out for criticism.

17. Plan schedule and supervise a regular program of practice in season.

18. Enforce discipline and sportsmanlike behavior at all times and assist in establishing/overseeing penalties for breach of such standards by individual participants.

19. Perform other job related duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.

2. Ability to stand for long periods of time and handle material by lifting, pushing, bending or stretching.

Benton Community is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Inquiries by employees or applicants for employment regarding compliance with equal employment opportunity and affirmative action laws and policies, including but not limited to complaints of discrimination, should be directed to the Affirmative Action Coordinator by writing to the District Affirmative

Action Coordinator, Benton Community School District, P.O. Box 70, Van Horne, Iowa, 52346, or by telephoning . Inquiries related to sex discrimination, including claims of sexual harassment

pursuant to Title IX, should be directed to Phillip Eastman, Title IX Coordinator, 100 School Drive, Norway, Iowa, 52346,, .

Inquiries by employees or applicants for employment regarding compliance with equal employment opportunity and affirmative action laws and policies, including but not limited to complaints of discrimination, may also be directed in writing to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions, 500

W. Madison St., Suite 2000, Chicago, IL. 60661, or TTY .

or the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 400 E. 14th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309-1004, or, This inquiry

or complaint to the federal office may be done instead of, or in addition to, an inquiry or complaint at the local level.

Further information and copies of the procedures for filing a complaint are available in the school district’s central administrative office and the administrative office in each attendance center.

The Benton Community School District has an established policy of Equal Employment Opportunity with respect to race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The district has an established policy of taking affirmative action in recruitment, appointment, assignment and advancement of women, minorities and disabled. The district expects the administration to know of and fully accept the equal opportunity and affirmative action policies and to make certain that no employee or applicant for employment shall suffer any form of discrimination because of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.