Episcopal High School is seeking a candidate to assist with the School’s rowing program in both the fall and spring seasons as a boatman. This position is a part-time, seasonal, stipended staff position.

Episcopal has a rich academic and athletic tradition and is deeply committed to seeing athletics as a crucial classroom in which our students strive for excellence and develop as healthy, determined, collaborative, and ethical leaders for the future. For more information about EHS, please visit the  school’s website.

Equipment Maintenance and Repair:

• Carry out routine maintenance and refurbishment of rowing equipment to include:
  Hull & Rigger maintenance
  Oars (Paint, Collars, Handles)
  Electronics (Wiring systems, cox-boxes, megaphones)
  Other rowing equipment: Slings, Regatta Equipment & Tools

• Maintain all coaching launches
• Transport the launches to the rowing site at the beginning of the season
• Return launches to the school campus after the season
• Perform all scheduled maintenance on launch engines
• Clean and cover launches after each season
• Inspect the pontoon hulls for damage and repair as needed
• Maintain valid registration stickers
• Maintain and repair the current rowing dock, ramp, and pier
• Maintain boat cages as needed
• Regularly spray cages for vegetation/weeds in and around the boat cages
• Inspect and secure sunscreens on top of the boat cages
• Set up and secure the rowing facilities and equipment to include:
  Unlocking and locking the boat cages and coaching launches
  Setting up launches with keys, lifejackets, paddles, megaphones, and gasoline
  Rig boats as requested by the head coaches
  Maintain an inventory of all rowing equipment, and order parts as needed

Transportation of Rowing Hulls and Equipment:

• Trailering boats to the various regattas or races and back to Episcopal’s boat cages
• Maintain the overall maintenance of the boat trailer
• Checking the emergency braking system
• Checking the lights and interior decking of the trailer
• Checking the trueness of the boat racks
• Maintaining a valid inspection sticker for the trailer
• Oversee the loading of the boat trailer for each regatta as needed

Safety and Water Operations:

• Serve as the community liaison with local fishermen, instructing them on the hours of rowing activity 
• Monitor and ensure equipment is in safe order for all rowing activities

Interested candidates should send the following to Director of Athletics, Jen Fitzpatrick, at JSF@episcopalhighschool.org.

1. Professional resume
2. List of 3-5 references with contact information

About Episcopal High School

Founded as the first high school in the state of Virginia in 1839, Episcopal High School is an independent, co-ed, college preparatory boarding school that values academic excellence, honor, service, and transformational adult-student relationships. The School is a 100% boarding community with 450 students from 26 states and 19 countries. The School seeks to attract a talented and diverse student body, faculty, staff, and administration to enrich the learning experience and offers robust programming in academics, athletics, service learning, arts, and activities while emphasizing a strong spiritual ethos through its chapel program. With its campus just seven miles from the White House, Episcopal has developed its new McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage to create innovative uses of the educational resources of Washington to foster the skills and personal qualities identified in its Portrait of a Graduate developed with its Strategic Plan in 2018.

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