We are currently accepting applications / resumes for our 2018 season!  We encourage you to become part of an organization that has one thing in mind - giving our kids the most positive and rewarding team sports experience ever. 

Director of Football for 2018: Kevin Tracy
Director of Cheer for 2018: Elaine Reese

In an effort to better serve our volunteer coaches, Howard Country Recreation and Parks is using a volunteer website.  All program volunteers must use the volunteer website. This website provides coaches, volunteers, and team administrators the ability to:

• Complete a profile and then update your information as needed each year;
• Provide a headshot for badging and attaching course ceritifications to your profile
• Certifications remain on the site for future reference and access to leverage them for other purposes as you need
• Self-monitor requirements needed to complete your requirements
• Manage badge expiration so that it is easy to renew for the upcoming season
  

How to use the website:

 

• Go to the Howard County Volunteer website using the URL: www.hocovolunteer.org  
• As first time users, select the  “Coaches and Administrators Registry”  Hot Opportunity on the front page.  Once selected, the Coaching Registry requirements will be displayed. Click the blue “Sign Up” button. 
  
• You will be asked to create an account with a User ID and password.  Note: Email addresses do work as User IDs and may be the easiest for you to remember. Record your password in a safe place as it will be your password each time you enter the system. 
  
• Accept the Terms of Agreement which will allow you to complete an application. 
  
• Complete your application.  If you need an ASEP code to take the Coaching Essentials Course, you can request one in the system.  Within 48-72 hours of attaching an ASEP certificate in the system, a background review link will be sent to you by Hire Right. 
  
• If you do not have all of your required attachments, you can continue your profile at a later time by logging out and returning in the future to “My Dashboard” and then “Edit My Profile”. 
  
• After you have created your profile, the second step is to search for the specific program you are interested in coaching with.  For example, Coaching Elkridge Hurricanes Fall 2015.  You can use key word searches (Hurricanes or football) or you can go to Departments/Recreation and Parks/Coaching which will display a list all of the Coaching Opportunities. Once you find your Coaching Opportunity, use the “Sign Up” button which will let the program coordinator know you are interested in being a volunteer coach.  Remember that the placement as a coach in any program will not be approved until such time that you have completed all requirements of the Coaches and Administrators Registry.

All Coaches:

Becoming a volunteer coach is two-step process:

• Sign up for the Coaches and Administrators Registry Opportunity and complete each of the requirements identified and,
• Sign up for the specific program you would like to coach this season (i.e. Elkridge Hurricanes). 
  
  

In future years, your Coaches and Administrators Registry Opportunity will only need to be renewed with a new background check and issuance of a new coaching card. All of your information and attachments will carry over to subsequent years. 

If you have any other questions, comments, or concerns please contact Ray Hall.