Middle School Athletic Director

The Athletic Director will perform the duties at the assigned school during the assigned athletic program. The Athletic Director will also cover any other event that requires administration present, and the High School Athletic Director (AD) has a conflict with another contest, or the contest requires more administrative presence to run the event safely and organized.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• The AD is to positively promote the athletic program to scholars, staff, parents and the community.
• Emphasize the importance of skill development and learning along with healthy competition, good sportsmanship and the importance of academics in relationship to athletics.
• Encourage continuation of athletic participation in a GRPS high school and cooperate with the Athletic Department and other middle school ADs to deliver the best program possible.
• The ADs should be professional at all times by positively representing GRPS and GRPS Athletics, displaying empathy for others which includes, colleagues, scholar, and all staff and faculty, work effectively with colleagues and scholars by practicing punctuality, respect for deadlines, collaborative problem solving and honest communication, dress appropriately for any and all contact with our scholar-athletes and the public, build trusting relationships by acting with integrity, courtesy, and responsibility, even in the face of stress or other demands, maintain required standards of confidentiality and safety and maintain work areas in a clean and orderly manner.
• The ADs are required to schedule physicals, provide scholars with information regarding the date of the physical and the medical history form, work with the doctor the day of the physical, keep records of the date of all physicals, keep scholars medical history form on file for a minimum of 7 years and ensure that no one is participating in any athletic activity without having a physical.
• Make sure no one is participating in any athletics activity without having paid the insurance fee, collect money from each athlete, deposit the insurance money in the appropriate acc

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior coaching and/or athletic experience.
• Must have reliable transportation and a valid Michigan driver’s license.

The Grand Rapids Public Schools will not discriminate against any person based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, height, weight, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, veteran, or military status.