Country School Guide Runner
About the Employer
Job Title: Cross Country � Human Guide/Guide Runner (Scituate High School) -
Position Summary: - The Scituate school department is seeking a dependable, student-centered human guide/guide runner to support a Scituate High School student-athlete with a visual impairment in participating safely and meaningfully in the cross country program.
Job Summary: - The guide runner serves as a running partner who provides navigation, verbal cues, course awareness, and safety support while allowing the student-athlete to determine their own pace, effort, and running goals.
Responsibilities:
• Attend and actively participate in scheduled cross country practices and competitions as assigned.
• Run or jog alongside the student-athlete and provide consistent navigation and safety support.
• Learn the athlete's preferred guiding method, communication cues, pace, and routines.
• Provide clear, timely verbal cues regarding turns, terrain, obstacles, changes in surface, other runners, and finish-line location.
• Train with the student-athlete when possible so that guiding communication and movement become familiar before competition.
• Work collaboratively with the head coach and athletic director to plan safe practices, course familiarization, transportation, and meet logistics.
• Follow all district policies, RIIL rules, meet-specific rules, and required safety procedures.
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries and protect student confidentiality.
• Encourage independence, confidence, sportsmanship, and full participation without taking over the athlete's role or decision-making.
• Communicate concerns about safety, fatigue, injury, course conditions, or other barriers to the head coach and appropriate school personnel.
• Maintain and properly use any approved guide equipment assigned for the position.
• Attend required meetings, trainings, and professional development.
• Perform other duties as assigned by administration consistent with the scope of the position.
Terms of Employment: - This position is a one-year, at-will appointment. Continued assignment is contingent upon satisfactory performance, program needs, and annual approval by the appropriate school and district administrators.