La Follette - Football - Head Coach

Overview

Athletics – La Follette High

Employment Type:

Exempt

Purpose of Position:
The Head Football Coach will oversee the entire La Follette HS Football Program and instruct the varsity high school football team. The Head Coach is responsible for helping each student-athlete gain success by reaching their full potential in the classroom and on the field.

Supervise the football program coaching staff including Varsity Assistants, Junior Varsity (JV), and JV2 coaches.

• Competitive playing experience in football at the high school level.
• Previous successful football coaching experience with a preference for coaches with prior successful experience as a varsity head football coach.
• Demonstrated knowledge of a wide range of contemporary high school and college football offensive, defensive, and off-season training systems.
• Commitment to year-round personnel skill enhancement, strength training, and program improvement.
• Successful experience providing positive motivation and development of student-athletes, including year-round monitoring of their conduct, behavior, and academic performance.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain open, positive communication with coaching staff, student-athletes, parents, and appropriate sub-varsity and youth program football coaches.
• Demonstrated knowledge of instructional progressions of high school and college football techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze opponent tendencies (scouting) and to design responsive strategies (game planning).
• Current certification in first aid with preference for coursework in sports-medicine, injury prevention, and/or rehabilitation, and cooperation with team or family physicians.
• Current certification, or must obtain within one month of employment, CPR/AED certification from a national certifying organization.
• Successful experience in athletic budgeting, supplemental fundraising, and long-range planning for enhancement and maintenance of equipment inventories.
• Successful experience in leading an integrated high school football program that encompasses all levels of competition within the program.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and coach diverse populations.
• Knowledge of WIAA eligibility standards and prior experience reinforcing good sportsmanship and compliance with athletic codes among team members and members of the football coaching staff.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate a football program into the total school experience of the student-athlete.
• Ability to integrate the student-athlete’s experience in the football program into the overall mission of Madison La Follette High School and its Athletic Department.
• If no teaching license, successful completion of an approved coach’s education course (ASEP), or the ability to complete the course before the second season of coaching.

• Valid teaching license.
• College playing experience.
• College coaching experience.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully implement a football program in a high school setting.

WIAA 2026 Fall Sports Season with optional work activities in the Spring of 2026

Will be expected to work evenings and weekends. Will also be expected to work in various outdoor weather conditions.

The job will require you to stand for extended periods of time while coaching at practices and games.