Destination Imagination Coordinator

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Extra Duty Coaching Position

• Recruit team managers
  • Ensure team managers get properly registered (background checks, code of conduct)
  • Ensure team managers get team manager training through Nebraska DI
• Support Team Managers with mentorship, regular check-ins, and reminders about upcoming Regional, Affiliate, and Global deadlines, special events, training, DI news, and rule updates
• Recruit participants and sets up practice schedules
  • School announcements
  • Parent/student informational meetings
  • Informational video
• Create and distribute participant registration forms and participation agreements
• Form teams of 2-7 participants according to grade level and interests
• Register teams with DI headquarters and Nebraska DI
  • Manages a budget (through curriculum office due to HAL funding)
  • Purchase team numbers for each team online and working with curriculum assistant to create a PO and get invoice paid
  • Assign each team a team manager and a team number
  • Input participant information into the online DI Resources Page
  • Distribute challenge documents to teams and team managers
• Register teams for tournaments
  • Register teams online
  • Distribute and collect required parental consent forms
• Recruit and register at least one volunteer appraiser for each team (each team is required to provide at least 1 volunteer appraiser for tournaments)
  • Work with appraiser volunteers to complete background checks
  • Work with appraisers to ensure they receive proper training
  • Arrange lodging for appraisers at away tournaments
• Organize transportation of students and trailer to tournaments
• Coordinate fundraising efforts for the DI program
• Acquire needed supplies for teams
• Stock and maintain the two DI trailers (one is supply storage, the other is storage for teams creations)
• Collaborate with NE DI board to host the Regional tournament (if happening in Columbus)
• Organize special events such as Instant Challenge Workshop and Parent Showcase
• Liaison between Nebraska DI and the schools
• Regularly communicate with parents and participants to educate them about the DI program and with reminders about fundraisers, practices, special events, and tournament deadlines and details.
• Recruit judges for competition
• Celebrate and recognize team achievements