Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official – Student

Position Overview

Recreation Services and the Intramural Sports program are seeking students to join our team as an Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official for the spring 2026 11v11 Outdoor Soccer season. The Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official is responsible for providing an atmosphere of fun in a competitive, yet safe, environment. Officials must be able to implement Intramural Sports policies and sport specific rules to maintain an appropriate level of control, fairness, and safety.

Officials should maintain a positive attitude on-site and should always be striving to improve their officiating skills.

A wide variety of skills are developed by Intramural Sports officials which include but are not limited to:

• Accountability
• Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Decision Making
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Teamwork

This is a seasonal position (Monday, March 23 through Thursday, May
7).

The duties of an Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official include:

• 80% Officiating Intramural 11v11 Outdoor Soccer games
  • Participant check-in
  • Pre-game captain's meeting
  • Participant safety provided through the unbiased administration of rules decisions based on training for that particular sport
• 10% Documentation of Intramural 11v11 Outdoor Soccer games
  • Verification of final score of all games worked with a signature on each completed score sheet
  • Assigning an appropriate Sportsmanship Rating to each team following each game
• 5% Field set up
• 5% Other duties as assigned

An applicant for the position of Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official must have:

• Work history that required being moderately physically active for hours at a time (maximum of four hours at a time)
• A baseline knowledge of the sport of soccer
• Current NFHS Concussion In Sports Certification or willingness to obtain within the first month of employment

The preferred applicant for the position of an Intramural Outdoor Soccer Official will have:

• Previous umpiring/officiating or sports participation experience
• A willingness to learn and have fun
• A passion for sports
• A positive and enthusiastic attitude
• A professional and cooperative demeanor

During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must: (1) have been enrolled in no less than 6 hours in the past spring semester or (2) be pre-enrolled in the upcoming fall semester in no less than 6 hours or (3) be enrolled in summer session or (4) be admitted to study in the upcoming fall semester.

Student Hourlies may be undergraduate or graduate students. (Exceptions granted for GRA/GTA/GA appointments DO NOT apply to Student Hourly appointments).

Review of this position occurs regularly through Monday, March 9.

• Availability to work on Sundays as evidenced in application material
• Availability to be present and engaged at both dates of the paid Intramural Outdoor Soccer Officials Training:
  Monday, March 23 from 5:00p – 7:30p; and Wednesday, March 25 from 5:30p – 7:00p

For questions about this position, please contact Jon Randle, Assistant Director for Intramural Sports, by email at jonrandle or by phone at

Compensation starts at $11.10/hour with opportunities for advancement.

Monday March 23, 2026