Coaches and Scouts

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (90%).

• Contact the parents of players to provide information and answer questions.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and travel with team to away contests.

• Evaluate athletes' skills and review performance records to determine their fitness and potential in a particular area of athletics.
• Perform activities that support a team or a specific sport, such as participating in community outreach activities, meeting with media representatives, and appearing at fundraising events.
• Hire, supervise, and work with extended coaching staff.
• Plan strategies and choose team members for individual games or sports seasons.
• Monitor athletes' use of equipment to ensure safe and proper use.
• Identify and recruit potential athletes by sending recruitment letters, meeting with recruits, and arranging and offering incentives, such as athletic scholarships.
• Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
• Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs.
• Keep abreast of changing rules, techniques, technologies, and philosophies relevant to their sport.
• Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.
• Monitor the academic eligibility of student athletes.
• Explain and enforce safety rules and regulations.
• Explain and demonstrate the use of sports and training equipment, such as trampolines or weights.
• Adjust coaching techniques, based on the strengths and weaknesses of athletes.
• Provide training direction, encouragement, motivation, and nutritional advice to prepare athletes for games, competitive events, or tours.
• Counsel student athletes on academic, athletic, and personal issues.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams to develop game strategies.
• Instruct individuals or groups in sports rules, game strategies, and performance principles, such as specific ways of moving the body, hands, or feet, to achieve desired results.