Track Coaching Opportunities for 2025-2026

DEPARTMENT: Athletics Department

REPORTS TO: Athletic Director 

Varsity Shot Put and Discus Assistant Coach (Winter/Spring) 

(full-time $4,102 or part-time $2,051 per season)

Georgetown Day School is seeking someone to coach full-time (up to 20 hours/week) or part-time (up to 10 hours/week) as a shot put and discus coach for both the winter and spring track seasons in the 2025-26 school year. Applicants should have experience throwing the shot put and discus and ideally coaching and/or teaching experience. This position may also involve supporting the sprint coaches at some practices. Availability at least two afternoons per week between 3:45 and 6:30 p.m. as well as on some Saturdays is expected. Applicants could potentially be considered for future fall employment as an assistant cross country coach as well if seeking three-season employment. Applicants should be ready to provide a resume and to speak with the head track/cross country coach.

Varsity Sprinting Coach (Winter/Spring) 

(full-time $4,102 or part-time $2,051 per season)

Georgetown Day School is seeking someone to coach full-time (up to 20 hours/week) or part-time (up to 10 hours/week) as a sprint coach for both the winter and spring track seasons in the 2025-26 school year. Applicants should have experience as track sprinters and ideally coaching and/or teaching experience. This position may also involve supporting distance and field event coaches at some practices. Experience with other events is appreciated. 

• In the winter, full-time coaches work five, two-hour practices per week from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.), about 4 weekday meets that can last until 8:00 p.m., and are expected to coach about 4 Saturday meets, averaging 8 hours. 
• In the spring, full-time coaches work five, two-hour practices per week (starting as early as 3:45 p.m. and ending as late as 6:45 p.m.), about ten weekday meets that can last until 8 p.m., and are expected to coach about 8 Saturday meets averaging 8 hours. 

Applicants could potentially be considered for fall employment as an assistant cross country coach as well if seeking three-season employment. Applicants should be ready to provide a resume and to speak with the head track/cross country coach.

Varsity Hurdle Coach (Winter/Spring) 

(full-time $4,102 or part-time $2,051 per season)

Georgetown Day School is seeking someone to coach full-time (up to 20 hours/week) or part-time (up to 10 hours/week) as a sprint coach for both the winter and spring track seasons in the 2025-26 school year. Applicants should have experience as track hurdlers and ideally coaching and/or teaching experience. This position may also involve supporting sprinting and field event coaches at some practices. Experience with other events is appreciated. 

• In the winter, full-time coaches work five, two-hour practices per week from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m.), about 4 weekday meets that can last until 8:00 p.m., and are expected to coach about 4 Saturday meets averaging 8 hours. 
• In the spring, full time coaches work five, two-hour practices per week (starting as early as 3:45 p.m. and ending as late as 6:45 p.m.), about ten weekday meets that can last until 8 p.m., and are expected to coach about 8 Saturday meets averaging 8 hours. 

Applicants could potentially be considered for fall employment as an assistant cross country coach as well if seeking three-season employment. Applicants should be ready to provide a resume and to speak with the head track/cross country coach.

Varsity Long Jump and Triple Jump Assistant Coach (Winter/Spring)

(full-time $4,102 or part-time $2,051 per season)

Georgetown Day School is seeking someone to coach full-time (up to 20 hours/week) or part-time  (up to 10 hours/week) as a long jump and triple jump coach for both the winter and spring track seasons in the 2025-26 school year. Applicants should have experience competing in the event(s) and ideally coaching and/or teaching experience. This position may also involve supporting the sprint coaches at some practices. Availability at least two afternoons per week between 3:45 and 6:30 p.m. as well as on some Saturdays is expected. Applicants could potentially be considered for future fall employment as an assistant cross country coach, as well, if seeking three-season employment. Applicants should be ready to provide a resume and to speak with the head track/cross country coach.

Qualifications 

Coaching and/or teaching experience (ideally)

Experience, Education, and Licensure 

Bachelor’s degree, preferred, but not required. 

Skills

Applicants should have experience with the exact sport they are interested in coaching 

Americans with Disability Specifications 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

To Apply

Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter, resume, and list of three references using our online application system through ADP/Workforce Now: http://www.gds.org/Recruiting (look for the Athletic Coaching opportunity). To find out more about the school, candidates should visit our website at www.gds.org.

As an inclusive school devoted to preparing our students to live, work, and lead in an increasingly globalized and multicultural society, GDS is particularly interested in professionals with demonstrated interest and experience in working in such a school setting and is driven by the core charge of working to enhance and bring joy to every student’s individual learning experience in equitable and meaningful ways.

About Georgetown Day School

Georgetown Day School opened its doors in 1945 as the first integrated school in a segregated city. Governed by a Board of Trustees elected by the parent body and administered by an appointed Head of School, it was founded by seven families who wanted to create a school committed not only to academic excellence and educational innovation but also to a value system emphasizing appreciation and respect for others. Believing that diversity was the ground out of which all deep and rich learning occurs, they established a school where all children would be welcome, celebrated, and challenged to be their best selves. Today, the School's philosophy, programs, and position in the national educational landscape strongly reflect its roots. Having grown from 12 children in 1945 to 1075 students in PK-12 today, GDS is recognized as one of Washington, D.C.’s and the nation’s most dynamic educational institutions. Since the school’s founding, GDS has called eight different locations home. In the fall of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools were all joined on one extraordinary campus.

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