Athletic Director
About Us:
Santiam Christian began in the Fall of 1979, with 55 students in grades 9-11 at New Life Center in Albany Oregon. The founding board was Mel Buck, President Howard Ropp, and Elden Stutzman.
In 1980, SC moved to the Adair Village campus we occupy today. Fundraisers back in the day consisted of Newspaper drives, catching chickens, food booths, and the county fair.
In the summer of 1984, over 2,400 volumes were catalogued for our library as the state of Oregon evaluated accreditation for Santiam Christian Schools. All the hard work paid off, and SC was accredited by ACSI in the spring of 1985.
On November 14, 1985, Santiam petitioned the U.S. government for 12 buildings and 16.5 acres for the price of $1.00. On February 28, 1989, SC officially obtained ownership of the parcel of land.
SC continued to grow and merged with Heritage school on July 1, 1990. At this point, the student body was 310 students, and it became apparent that we would need more space. God provided for us then, and has continued to provide for us again and again throughout our history. We have been blessed to have a continually growing campus that now includes Elementary, Junior High, and High School buildings, 2 playgrounds, athletic fields and facilities, fine arts, music, and theater facilities, science, woodshop, agriculture, and culinary labs, greenhouses, and more.
We are honored to participate in welcoming international exchange students into our halls, and delight in getting to know them, and learning from them while they are here. Hundreds of our students have participated in 30+ missions trips from China, to the Dominican Republic, to Ukraine. We are deeply honored to be apart of this community. It is our mission to serve SC students and families with the joy of Christ, provide a solid faith based education, and showcase the love of Jesus in everything we do.
The primary purpose of Santiam Christian Schools shall be to assist Christian parents who adhere to our Statement of Faith in the training of their children by providing a Christ-centered, academic environment that encourages the development of a Christian worldview emphasizing academic excellence, Christian character, responsible citizenship, and service to others.
Character - Leadership - Community
About the Position:
We are looking for a devoted follower of Christ, a detail-oriented, organized individual to join our staff as our school athletic director. The athletic director’s responsibilities include organizing sports functions, hiring and mentoring coaches, overseeing sports facilities, and managing the sports department for elementary through high school.
To be a successful athletic director, you should be passionate about sports and education and have a keen understanding of the development of young athletes. This person should have a vision to help develop our athletes from our younger grades to the high levels of high school play. This will be accomplished by creating a full school program that engages coaches, volunteers, and parents at every level. A top-notch athletic director should be energetic and detail-oriented with good leadership and communication skills.
Salary: $55,000 – $65,000 annually
Benefits: Health, dental, and tuition benefits
Location: Adair Village, OR
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the high school principal and the administration team to create a positive and energetic school-wide program.
- Works in collaboration with the assistant athletic director.
- Responsible for ensuring the health and safety of all students in the athletic program.
- Develop, organize, supervise, and evaluate the school’s interscholastic athletic programs.
- Represent Santiam Christian Schools at various state, regional, and national athletic associations.
- Schedule athletic contests and secure game officials.
- Attract, hire, and supervise qualified coaching staff for all athletic programs, ensuring they perform their duties at the highest level of professionalism.
- Ensure that all coaching staff have required current CPR, first aid, concussion protocol training, and certifications.
- Develop and provide appropriate training guidelines and materials for coaching staff, ensuring that coaches are properly trained in all organizational and philosophical aspects of the athletic program.
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee all school athletic activities, including, but not limited to, team sports, summer athletic camps, awards ceremonies, and other athletic events that the school holds.
- Conduct ongoing evaluations of student achievement through formal and informal assessments.
- Maintain and revise the coaches’ manual each year and set up appropriate meetings with the coaches to review the information and standards in detail.
- Maintain student health records in the Athletic office, ensuring that required information was disseminated to all coaching staff as required.
- Coordinate and disseminate information regarding athletic practices, contests, and activities to school personnel, students, and parents as needed.
- Secure appropriate forms and payments from athletic participants.
- Purchase and maintain inventory of all athletic equipment.
- Oversee the distribution, collection, cleaning, repair, and storage of all athletic uniforms and equipment.
- Work with the facilities department to ensure that school grounds meet athletic needs and that all athletic equipment, facilities, fields, and courts are properly maintained and secured.
- Coordinate awards activities for all team sports, purchasing awards and team sports photos.
- Maintain records of team and individual athletic accomplishments and submit copies to the Marketing department for historical purposes, as well as to promote, publish, and recognize athletic programs.
- Prepare, submit, and administer a yearly budget to fund the school’s athletic programs.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the High School Principal.
Education and Experience Expectations:
- Bachelor’s degree in sports management, athletic administration, or a related field.
- Two to four years of progressive experience in athletics management.
- Experience coaching elementary – high school children in a variety of sports activities.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with a robust servant-heart focus (internal and external).
- Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders of the school.
- Highly ethical team player.
- High energy, self-starter with the ability to successfully prioritize and multi-task in an atmosphere in which time-sensitive deadlines are the norm.
- Available to work evenings and weekends when necessary.
Required Spiritual Qualifications:
- Must be a “born-again” Christian who knows the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior (John 3:3, 1 Peter 1:23).
- Must be a spiritually mature and growing Christian who is active in their Christian life, with an understanding and commitment to the philosophy of Christian Education, compatible with that of Santiam Christian Schools.
- Accepts, without reservation, Santiam Christian School’s Statement of Faith Gives testimony that administration is a spiritual calling and that administrating in Santiam Christian School is God’s direction for their life for this school year.
- Affirms that the Bible is God’s Word and the standard for faith and daily living.
- Actively engaged in a church.
- Manifests by daily example, the highest Christian virtue, serving as a Christian role model (1 Timothy 4:12), both in and out of school, to pupils (Luke 6:40), parents, and fellow employees. Instruction is not only through rational explanation of formal subject material but even more powerfully through word, deed, example, and shared experience.
Personal Qualities:
- Sound organizational skills and practices.
- Use of acceptable English in written and oral communication.
- Demonstrates the character qualities of courtesy, flexibility, integrity, gratitude, kindness, self-control, perseverance, and punctuality.
- Meets everyday stress with emotional stability, objectivity, and optimism.
- Maintains a personal appearance of cleanliness and modesty in agreement with school policy.
