Upper Division Assistant Debate Coach
Upper Division Assistant Debate Coach
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05-04-2025
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Berkeley Preparatory School a school free of government interference located in beautiful Tampa Florida.
Founded in 1960 Berkeley Preparatory School is an independent coeducational Episcopal affiliated college preparatory school with a current enrollment of 1400 students in grades PreK through 12. Notably the school operates completely free of interference from state and local governments. Employees at Berkeley are amongst the most wellcompensated in the industry and are supported assiduously in tangible and intangible ways.
At Berkeley we seek to educate the whole child by nurturing students intellectual emotional spiritual and physical development so they may attain their highest potential. We are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse learning community that develops the character of and a strong sense of social responsibility in each student.
Berkeley is located on a beautiful and wellequipped 86acre campus consisting of 29 stateoftheart buildings. Our proud mascot is the Buccaneer. Graduates are passionate wellrounded individuals who have learned the core values of discipline diligence and integrity while mastering a rigorous engaging curriculum and enjoying a myriad of cocurricular opportunities.
The tax advantages of living in Florida are significant and the Tampa Bay region offers an incomparable lifestyle replete with sunshine yearround outdoor activity and rich culture. Safe and easy to navigate Tampa Bay is a wonderful place to make a life.
Upper Division Assistant Debate Coach
The successful candidate will have experience competing in and coaching policy debate. Position responsibilities include:
1. Travel to Tournaments 4 Tournaments Per Semester)
- Commit to attending at least four Policy Debate tournaments per semester.
- Supervise students during overnight and day trips ensuring safety professionalism and adherence to school policies.
- Assist with logistics coordination including travel lodging meal planning and tournament registration.
- Ensure debaters have all the necessary materials speech docs and evidence files.
- Support students with preround preparation and postround analysis helping them adjust their strategies between rounds.
- Serve as a liaison between students parents and tournament officials keeping all stakeholders informed.
- Maintain a professional and ethical presence at all competitions ensuring students uphold the highest standards of sportsmanship.
2. Coaching and Judging at Tournaments
- Provide realtime strategic coaching before and after rounds helping students refine their arguments and adapt to judge preferences.
- Judge Policy Debate rounds offering detailed constructive feedback to competitors.
- Assist students in analyzing opponent strategies judge paradigms and tournament trends to maximize competitive success.
- Stay current with NSDA TOC and other Policy Debate league rules to ensure proper coaching and feedback.
- Help coordinate team entries registration and paperwork to meet tournament deadlines.
- Encourage students to selfassess performances and set strategic goals for improvement.
3. Guiding Research and Conducting Practice Drills & Rounds
- Oversee indepth topic research based on the annual NSDA Policy Debate resolution.
- Teach students to construct advanced affirmative and negative cases including disadvantages (DAs) counterplans (CPs) topicality (T) kritiks (Ks) and theory arguments.
- Ensure students develop robust and wellorganized evidence files teaching them how to cut cards tag evidence and organize blocks effectively.
- Conduct drills to improve clarity argument efficiency rebuttal depth and technical debating skills including:
- Spreading (speed drills) & enunciation training
- Crossexamination strategies
- Impact calculus and weighing mechanisms
- Framework and debate philosophy instruction
- Organize structured practice rounds ensuring students get experience in various judge paradigms and argument styles.
- Guide students in using digital debate tools (e.g. Verbatim DebateSynergy Open Evidence Project) for better efficiency.
- Encourage students to stay engaged with current events policy research and legal trends relevant to the debate topic.
4. Running Debate Meetings and Program Development
- Plan and lead structured Policy Debate practices ensuring a mix of lectures drills research sessions and practice rounds.
- Work with debaters of varying experience levels from beginners learning structure and flowing to advanced debaters refining highlevel technical strategies.
- Provide oneonone mentorship helping students refine case construction rebuttal strategies and round adaptation.
- Foster a team culture that values research collaboration and competitive success.
- Assist with recruitment efforts promoting Policy Debate to new students and engaging with parents and faculty to grow the program.
- Help manage team resources including digital case files research assignments and evidencesharing structures.
- Support students in preparing for seasonal and nationallevel debate camps for skill development.
- When asked communicate with parents and students to provide information pertaining to the program (in consultation with other faculty members involved).
Candidates will also be asked to teach a few sections of Upper Division classes and perform other duties as assigned.
Compensation and Benefits:
The appointment is available August 2025 and is a fulltime salary exempt position and eligible for full benefits. The compensation package will be very competitive nationally and commensurate with experience certification attainment and the national independent school and college markets.
All inquiries and nominations are kept confidential.
Berkeley Preparatory School does not discriminate on the basis of age sex religion race color sexual orientation gender identity genetic information disability national or ancestral origin or any other status protected by law in the administration of its educational policies scholarship programs athletic programs and other Berkeleyadministered programs or in the administration of its hiring and employment practices.
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Employment Type
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