Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

IMMEDIATE OPENING:   Cross Country Head Coach

Part-time beginning August/2025-26 school year

Position Overview 

Head-Royce School in Oakland is looking for Cross Country Head Coach for the fall season. Our XCountry season starts on August 26th. This is a part-time position; no teaching position is available.

Head-Royce is a private, co-educational K-12 school located in Oakland and supports one of the best small-school athletics programs in the Bay Area.

Successful candidates possess the passion, energy, knowledge of tennis and desire to continue the tradition of our successful athletic programs. They must have the leadership and organizational skills to manage a team of driven and high-performing student-athletes and the communication skills to relate to the current generation of student-athletes, our athletics administration and families.

Team practices take place from roughly 2:30pm - 5:30pm four days a week (with no weekends). We host home matches on campus. We ask our coach(es) to drive school vans to away matches. The season starts on 8/16 and ends on 10/27.

• Equipment Each coach is charged with the responsibility of monitoring students to insure that they take proper care of issued uniforms, equipment, and supplies. The coach is responsible for the collection and return of all uniforms, equipment, and supplies at the conclusion of the season.
• Participation Coaches have the obligation to respect every sport and to encourage students toward full participation. At no time should any student be encouraged to forego one sport in favor of another except at the student’s own discretion.
• Officials Coaches are to respect and support game officials at all times.
• Assistant Coaches An assistant coach supports the head coach at all times when communicating with players, other students, parents, and faculty members. Public criticism of other coaches is always inappropriate and unacceptable.
• Coaches Certification All coaches who work at Head-Royce School must complete and pass a Coaches Certification course. Courses may be taken online, or in a classroom. Organizations that sponsor approved courses are NFHS, and ASEP. Coaches must possess a current Red Cross CPR/First Aid Card.

• A valid California driver's license; CPR and 1st-Aid training (or willingness to gain proficiency) and TB test and fingerprints clearance prior to coaching.
• Additionally, a California Coaching Certification is mandated by the state for all High School coaches (for which there is a short grace period). We have a stipend available for the season at competitive pay.

Other Requirements:

To Apply

Interested candidates are asked to apply via Lever. Priority will be given to applications received before Aug 31.

Located on a 22-acre campus in Oakland, California, Head-Royce (HRS) is a pre-eminent, co-educational, independent, K-12 day school with a 137-year history. Our mission is to inspire in our students a lifelong love of learning and pursuit of academic excellence, to promote understanding of and respect for diversity that makes our society strong and to encourage active and responsible global citizenship.

Head-Royce enrolls 900 students in the three separate divisions—Lower, Middle and Upper—and provides a dynamic, whole-child education to every student.

Please note - HRS is unable to provide immigration sponsorships such as H1B Visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and be willing to undergo both Livescan background check and TB screening as part of the hiring process.

Head Royce is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions including but not limited to employment, training, promotion, demotion, transfer, leaves of absence and termination based on qualifications and without regard to protected status. We will not discriminate based on age, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin or ancestry, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, registered domestic partner status, physical or mental disability, a medical condition including genetic characteristics, military or veteran status, reproductive health decision making or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws Head-Royce School seeks to be a community in which every individual is treated with sensitivity, courtesy and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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