Youth Baseball Assistant Coach

Key Responsibilities:

• Supports the Tigers Nike RBI Baseball Head Coach in all phases of RBI Baseball program.
• Commitment to complete mandatory MLB & Club training requirements (i.e. U.S. Center for SafeSport and Positive Coaching Alliance).
• Assists in the design, planning, and implementation of Baseball training, conditioning, practice, and competition programs.
• Teaches Baseball skills in one or more specialty areas (i.e., pitchers, catchers, hitting, infield, outfield) during practices, games, and individual/group training sessions.
• If assigned, accepts coaching assignment that will prepare scouting reports, game plans, and scorecards.
• If assigned, accepts coaching assignment to organize all athlete uniform needs and equipment requests.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with high energy and enthusiasm.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; to meet people where they’re at.
• Plans and Aligns: Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Develops ways to get work done; managing time and resources to effectively organize people and activities.
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: Openly and culturally appropriately communicates with diverse groups of people. Awareness of cultural responsiveness.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Critical Thinking: Practices objective rather than subjective modes of reasoning and action. Maintains perspective when assessing qualitative and quantitative information, to ensure decisions align with the mission of the department. Appropriately challenging and questioning status quo beliefs & practices.
• Problem Solving: Builds a deliberate approach to address challenges and opportunities; manages situations by drawing on one’s knowledge and experiences, calling on other references, resources, and seeking additional support from colleagues.