Ultimate Job Opportunity - HRM Junior High Outreach Coordinators

Posting date: 03 October, 2024
Application Deadline:  31 October, 2024

Note: A Google Doc version of this job posting is available HERE.

DiscNS Juniors Committee is looking for qualified instructors for the 2024/25 HRM Junior High Outreach Representative position. Please read through all responsibilities and qualifications before submitting your application. 

If you are interested in this position or know of someone that would be well suited to it please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as well as complete and submit the application for further consideration. Application deadline is October 31st, 2024. 

Successful candidates will be required to provide a Criminal Record Check by their position’s start date, valid within 2 years.

Junior High Outreach Representative Responsibilities

The DiscNS Juniors Committee is seeking interested people to fill the role for two (2) Junior High School Outreach Representatives. These positions would include a stipend $1600 per representative with the expectation that there will be two representatives from DiscNS that would work together when visiting the schools. The 2024/25 season will run from November 2024 to June 2025. Outreach Representative selection will be completed by mid November 2024. 

Reporting to the DiscNS Juniors Committee, the HRM Junior High Outreach Representatives will provide a range of disc sport-related instruction, at the Junior High level, with a specific focus on Ultimate. The Representatives will be working in Junior Highs across the Halifax Regional Municipality and therefore are required to complete/provide a vulnerable sector and background check. 

Outreach Representatives will be responsible for the following:

• Organizing and running ultimate-focused gym classes in junior high schools within the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) during the months of November 2024 through June 2025.

• Representatives are expected to set expectations and schedules for the gym classes (including booking field times). The exact dates and times will be determined by the representatives and school liaisons. DiscNS Juniors Committee will assist in the initial planning/connecting with the schools.

• Work with and adapt existing DiscNS practice plans to introduce ultimate to the students.

• Create and execute practice plans. This may require modification for each school depending on available facilities, the number of students, and student skill level.

• Coordinate resources and any additional services required.

• Coaches are expected to work with DiscNS Junior Committee for any fundraising events or plans. Equipment (cones, discs, etc.) will be provided by DiscNS.

• Present themselves in a professional manner as a representative of DiscNS.

The initial timeline for this endeavor would need to be established through contact with each interested school, but is expected to commence in March and run through April. November through March, the Outreach Representatives are expected to create the initial practice plans for the schools. Equipment (cones, discs, etc.) will be provided by DiscNS. 

Qualifications

• Must have prior experience in Ultimate Frisbee or disc-related sports

• Must have access to transportation

• Be flexible in days and times to visit schools (This is a day time opportunity during regular school hours but the times through the day and days of the week may vary from school to school)

• Must complete/provide a vulnerable sector and background check

• Must be NCCP - Competition Introduction Qualified

• Experience coaching/teaching school aged children but not necessary

• This role requires a high degree of independent practice, skills assessment ability, and the ability to implement & execute a class plan

• Experience in offering brief, supportive intervention strategies focusing on conflict mitigation

• Ability to navigate and de-escalate situations

• Knowledge of social determinants of health/social context and its importance in coaching/instructing is an asset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Proficient in Microsoft office products

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants who have completed previous coaching qualifications must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Hours of Work

Part-time, contract position

Salary Information

$1600/person

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

DiscNS is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all levels. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer.

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Role of DiscNS

Here is what the Government of Nova Sotia expects from Provincial Sport Organizations (PSOs) like DiscNS: 

1. Current provincial sport boundaries allow for regular competition among a limited number players who regularly play among one another.  Play is to proceed under safe conditions.
2. The province looks to the PSOs to determine which events constitute a regular competition schedule within the region or province.  It looks to the PSO to provide clarity around who the regular competition players would be.  It also looks for the PSO to define safe play conditions, like cleaning discs, style of play, any schedule format requirements, and so on.

DiscNS does not say, nor does it want to say, how individual organizations run.  Whether an informal group who get together, a not-for-profit organization, or a business, DiscNS doesn't speak to their non-sport activities or operations.  If that group, organization, or business intends to run a disc-related sport event then the province looks to DiscNS to set the previously-mentioned parameters and suitability of the event. If a group, organization, or business expects to operate outside the PSOs for events then they should be applying to the province for special event permission.

Within the described framework, DiscNS acknowledges the typical local leagues and the regular MDGA competition series schedule as well-established "regular competition" in the province. 

If you have any questions on the role of the PSO relative to ultimate or disc golf in the province, please contact Mike McAllister at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Sport Nova Scotia for clarifications.

Feb. 19, 2021 6:40pm update: DiscNS looks to recognize "regular competition" as competition is presented to us.  If you want to have sport something recognized as a "regular competition schedule", please send the summary of your organization's past events and the event plan to continue the regular schedule to DiscNS to review.