Required Skills & Experience
- Experience supporting **students, children, teenagers, or young adults** in an academic, coaching, mentoring, behavioral support, or similar environment.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to provide structure, accountability, and consistent support.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to calmly address minor behavioral concerns and reinforce expectations.
- Professional judgment and ability to recognize when concerns should be escalated.
- Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries and confidentiality.
- Comfortable working collaboratively with educational and student-support professionals.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Previous experience in a **school, classroom, tutoring, academic support, mentoring, coaching, or youth development environment**.
- Experience supporting student-athletes or students balancing academics with extracurricular commitments.
- Experience helping students improve organization, study habits, time management, or academic accountability.
- Familiarity with student wellbeing and safeguarding practices.
- Experience working with students who need additional behavioral or academic structure and support.
Job Description
We are seeking a Academic & Behavioral Support Coach to support student-athletes in a structured classroom environment. This individual will help students stay engaged academically, manage their responsibilities, and develop stronger organization, accountability, independence, and positive classroom behaviors.
This position is focused on **academic and behavioral support rather than teaching curriculum**. The Coach will serve as a consistent presence in the classroom, helping students balance their academic responsibilities with demanding athletic commitments.
Day to Day
- Support student-athletes with staying engaged, organized, and on task throughout the school day.
- Monitor academic engagement, attendance, behavior, assignments, deadlines, and completion of work.
- Help students develop stronger **organization, time-management, study, and workload-planning skills**.
- Reinforce classroom expectations around attendance, punctuality, technology use, language, and conduct.
- Provide appropriate prompting, encouragement, and academic support without completing work for students.
- Address minor behavioral concerns calmly and consistently.
- Identify patterns of disengagement, behavioral concerns, or wellbeing concerns and communicate them through the appropriate channels.
- Build positive relationships with students while maintaining professional boundaries.
- Collaborate with education, academy, welfare, and safeguarding staff.
- Help students balance academic responsibilities with their athletic commitments.
- Maintain confidentiality and follow all applicable school, safeguarding, and compliance policies.