Other Sports Coach or Instructor

Highly relevant tasks include:

• Creating engaging and challenging environments which allow sportspersons to have a positive experience
• Coaching, training and instructing sportspersons by analysing performances and developing abilities;
• Planning and facilitating game strategies, developing play patterns and analysing game progress and performance;
• Motivating sportspersons and supervising practice sessions;
• Recruiting players and other coaching staff;
• Arranging entries into sporting competitions;
• Promoting sports and skills development, and overseeing the participation of young people in sport;
• Officiating at sporting events to enforce rules;
• Coordinating and directing sporting activities, and liaising with other stakeholders (e.g. other coaches, officials, support staff, parents) to interpret and enforce rules and regulations relating to sport.

Sports Coaches are employed by sporting clubs and associations, government agencies, government funded centres (such as the Australian Institute of Sport, state, territory or regional institutes or academies of sport), holiday resorts and centres specialising in particular sports, health clubs, community institutions and educational institutions (schools and tertiary, for example). They may also be self-employed.

Employment must be highly relevant

Applicants nominating this occupation are required to specify exactly which sport they are coaching – whether from the list of ANZSCO specialisations or other.

If applicants coach more than one sport, additional evidence to support the applicant’s level of professional competency and expertise in each of these areas may be required.

To receive a positive assessment outcome, applicants must be able to demonstrate they are employed and paid to coach a sport for at least 20 hours per week. For applicants who are employed on a casual or parttime basis, additional official documentation such as a summary of the number of working hours per week may be required. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that their primary engagement with their employer is for the purposes of coaching. Therefore, for applicants occupying dual roles, official contracts and /or appointment letters outlining primary tasks and working hours per week may be required.

Employment must be paid

For skills assessment purposes, full-time work is paid employment performed for a minimum of 20 hours per week. Irregular periods that average out to 20 hours per week over a year will not be considered. For example, if an applicant has worked in their nominated occupation for 12 hours per week over a three-month period, and has then worked 40 hours per week over a seven month period, only the seven-month period would be considered for skills assessment purposes.

Applicants nominating for this occupation are advised to provide any additional evidence to support employment claims, such as:

• professional development certificates
• coaching awards / achievements
• cover letter or coaching logbook**

** A cover letter or coaching logbook should detail your coaching activities (such as session goal, coaching techniques, session summary, feedback, action plan, and follow-up), helping you keep track of your hours completed in various contexts over a designated period. This may include working with different athletes, sports, and mentors.

Note: The above supporting materials are considered as supplementary evidence and will not substitute a formal educational qualification or highly relevant employment.