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Speech and Debate Head Coach/Moderator 

About the Organization Mission Statement:


Inspired by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers, in partnership with families, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory's mission is to provide the finest education in an inclusive Catholic community of faith. We prepare our high school students to become service-oriented leaders with a commitment to living the Gospel.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHC) is a Lasallian Vincentian Catholic, co-educational college preparatory secondary school located in the heart of San Francisco, California. We provide academically rigorous, vibrant learning grounded in social justice and student centered pedagogy. Our entire community is committed to cultivating each student's unique talents and passions, providing myriad opportunities for students to discern and realize their individual intellectual, artistic, athletic, social, and spiritual potential. SHC is a San Francisco Archdiocesan High School that is cosponsored by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, District of San Francisco New Orleans and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

As an inclusive Catholic community of faith, we respect and support our students, faculty and staff and their sense of belonging in an increasingly diverse world. At SHC, such respect is grounded by our mission and carried out through our Lasallian Vincentian Catholic educational traditions. In these efforts, we prepare our students as future leaders to model our credo, "Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve".  
Category Student Life  
Description

Position Summary

Sacred Heart Cathedral is seeking a responsible and enthusiastic individual to coach and coordinate our speech and debate team. Primarily responsibilities are to coach debate (Public Forum, Lincoln Douglas, Congress, and others depending on need), tournament organization/registration, coordinate and communicate with students, parents, faculty, and promote the team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Teach debaters the skills required for competition in Public Forum Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, and other styles of debate as needed.

  • Collaborate with assistant speech and debate coaches to manage the team.

  • Attend debate tournaments and stay current with league, state, and national rules, procedures, judging standards, and tournaments for debate.

  • Maintain a detailed record of the speech and debate team roster.

  • Communicate regularly and reliably with designated student, parent and faculty representatives.

  • Create and maintain positive working relationships with debaters, student committee members, parents, parent committee members, faculty, and tournament representatives.

  • Advise the parent and student committees about which debate tournaments should be considered for entry, and decide which debaters should attend and at which level.

  • Work with the parents and faculty to ensure that speech and debate students have emergency and transportation forms for tournaments, and assist parent committee to obtain information about tournament logistics.

  • Work with the parent committee co-chairs, students, other coaches, and faculty representatives, to set practice/behavior standards required for students to enter and participate in tournaments.

  • Attend, coach and/or judge for a minimum of 8 league and/or individual tournaments, as needed, including overnight tournaments.

  • Model and support the philosophy of the speech and debate program including by consulting with participants about ways to recruit and encourage others.

  • Work with the parent committee and faculty to register participants in tournaments, pay fees, and communicate details.

 
Position Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Two Years of College Study (AA or Bachelors preferred

  • Experience in high school speech and debate.

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with students, staff and parents.

  • Ability to motivate and inspire strong work ethic and excitement for speech and debate.

  • Familiarity with Forensics rules and guidelines.

How to Apply:

Submit a cover letter and resume, or queries, to Christine.Buell, Assistant Principal for Student Life at cbuell@shcp.edu

Salary negotiable, based on experience

Position open until filled.

 
Full-Time/Part-Time Part-Time  
Exempt/Non-Exempt Non-Exempt  
EOE Statement Sacred Heart Cathedral is an equal opportunity employer:
The Archdiocese of San Francisco will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The Archdiocese of San Francisco will consider, for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.
Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
 

This position is currently not accepting applications.

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