RRHS - Head Cheer Coach

RRHSHeadCheer Coach

2025/2026 SY

Minimum Qualifications:

25Years Coaching Experience

New Mexico licensure; must hold or be able to obtain a 501 coaching license

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Oversees the entire cheer program.
• Supervise practices with injury prevention and safety as the top priority at all times.
• Clear and concise communication with supervisor athletes and parents is a critical piece of Head Cheer Coach expectations.
• Before allowing any prospective athlete to participatein his/her program (including practice he/she will verify that the athlete has completed and submitted to the school a Rio Rancho Public Schools InterscholasticAthletic Participation Form physical and proof of insurance. A copy of this must be kept on file in the school athletic office.

• Explain and discuss the RRPS Athletic Code of Conduct with those athletes in his/her program. Maintain a file containing a copy of the code of conduct for each athlete with the signature of the athlete his/her parent and the head coach indicating that each understands the terms of the agreements.
• Prepare and submit to the athletic office:
• A list of all lettermen in your program at the end of the season.
• A complete inventory of equipment at the end of the season.
• All requests for new equipment for the next year by the deadline set by the athletic director.
• Evaluations of Assistant JV 9^th grade coaches at the end of the season
• Compile and distribute to all faculty members assistant principals attendance office and on line a list of athletes that are to be excused from school on each road trip.
• Check with Athletic Coordinator on the Monday prior toall road trips to confirm the date and time of your scheduled departure. If you wish to adjust your departure time it can be done at that time.
• See that all equipment is properly stored and cared for at the endof the season.
• Provide a safe keeping place for valuables during practice andgame time.
• Demand that our athletes conduct themselves as ladies/gentlemen at all times when they are representing our city and school.
• See that all athletes under his/her jurisdiction are well informedas to all athletic eligibility rules and regulations.
• Limit the time athletes will be out of school to a minimum.
• See that no student in his/her program participates in more than the maximumnumber of games /contest than is permitted by theNMAA.
• To supervise his/her assistant coaches and all of the athletic teams who are a part of his/her program
• Be knowledgeable of rules and regulations regardinghis/her sport as presented in the NMAA handbook.
• Keep abreast of rules and rule changes in his/her sport.
• To at all times when serving in the capacity as a representativeof RRPS conduct him/herself in a manner that will not cause any embarrassment to the team school or community and demand the same expectations of all of his/her assistant coaches.
• Encourage athletes to participate in as many sports as possible.
• Develop criteria for earning a letter in their particular sport.
• Must conduct mandatory parent preseason meeting reviewing all expectations team rules information etc.

• Other duties as assigned

Work Hours:

Work hours will be in accordance withhours determined by the school district andthe individual schoolswithin parameters of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.

An Equal Opportunity Employer