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Join Special Olympics Montana as a Local Program Coordinator in Great Falls!
ORGANIZATION: Special Olympics Montana
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Do you love sports? Do you love to share your passion of sports with others around you? Special Olympics Montana, Great Falls adult program is currently seeking qualified individuals to lead a newly developed team in the area. Help organize and lead a group of Special Olympics athletes and develop your own team of coaches and volunteers.
Special Olympics Montana provides year round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharking of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympic athletes, and their community.
The new adult program consists of 30 - 40 athletes 21 years of age and older based in the Great Falls community who participate in a variety of Olympic-type sports. Special Olympics Montana offers 4 sports seasons: Basketball, Bowling, Winter (which include snowshoe, cross country and alpine skiing, and snowboarding), and Summer Games (events include athletics, aquatics, bocce, and soccer among others). Local Program Coordinators are responsible for all aspects of the program from securing facility locations for practice, to recruiting qualified coaches for training athletes. Responsibilities also include timely submission of registration materials for local and state competition and participation in fundraising events.
Individual(s) must have strong leadership, communication and organizational skills. Special Olympics Montana will provide all training and orientations to the program. Do not need sports experience to apply. Join a dynamic team of Special Olympics Volunteers TODAY!
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About Special Olympics Montana
Location:
710 1st Ave N, Great Falls, MT 59401, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.
Description
Special Olympics Montana is a nonprofit organization designed to provide year-round, statewide programs of physical fitness, sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and closely related developmental disabilities.
Learn more at www.somt.org.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
710 1st Ave NGreat Falls, MT 59401
DATE POSTED
March 16, 2017
SKILLS
- Coaching
- Fitness Instruction
- Outdoor Recreation
- Recruiting
- Program Management
- Operations
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Year Round