Internship Opportunities
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Parisi Student Performance Coach
Position: Part-Time Paid Student Performance Coach
Reports To: Director of Internal Operations and Programming
Daily Guidance: Full-Time Performance Coach as delegated
Schedule: 12–25 hours per week, as stated in the updated employee agreement
Education: At least 80% completion of Exercise Science, Kinesiology, or a similar degree
Certification: Required Parisi training and certification before independent coaching
Your Role
Develop as a performance coach while delivering safe, energetic, and consistent Parisi sessions. This is a paid employee role with professional coaching expectations. Work under a designated, experienced paid coach until you meet training, certification, and competency requirements.
The Internal Operations Director approves readiness for independent delivery and manages scheduling. The Full-Time Performance Coach provides daily coaching guidance and feedback. The External Affairs Director coordinates approved outreach assignments through the internal schedule.
Your Primary Strengths
- Athlete interaction and engagement
- Exercise instruction and clear communication
- Learning, coachability, and consistent preparation
- Positive teamwork and safe supervision
Key Areas of Responsibility
Coaching and Learning the Parisi System
Coach only sessions and exercises authorized for your certification, training, and demonstrated competence. Explain, demonstrate, observe, correct, and encourage athletes using approved progressions. Seek help whenever a task exceeds your competence.
Complete required Parisi education, observe experienced coaches, and participate in feedback with the Full-Time Performance Coach. Demonstrate improvement in instruction, class management, and safety awareness.
Athlete Experience and Preparation
Learn athlete names, goals, and abilities. Maintain a positive and inclusive class environment with active supervision. Record attendance and required session information accurately.
Prepare equipment, support class transitions, and restore training areas within paid time. All preparation, required training, meetings, coaching, and assigned administration or outreach count as work. Record all hours and communicate school-related scheduling needs in advance.
Communication and Outreach
Use approved channels to communicate routinely with athletes and parents. Refer programming, scheduling, placement, complaints, and safety matters beyond your authority to the Internal Operations Director; the Full-Time Performance Coach may help with routine questions.
Refer partnership and prospective-business inquiries to the External Affairs Director. Attend approved team or outreach activities within the paid schedule and approved coverage plan. Bring conflicting assignments to the Internal Operations Director.
What Success Looks Like
- Reliable attendance and on-time readiness
- Required certifications and safe, accurate coaching
- Positive athlete interaction and professional communication
- Measurable learning and positive response to feedback
- Accurate records and organized training spaces
Key Performance Indicators
Review scheduled work and coaching sessions completed, certification progress, safety compliance, attendance, records, and coaching development. The Full-Time Performance Coach provides daily feedback; the Internal Operations Director leads the review with input from the External Affairs Director on assigned outreach. Set numerical targets separately in writing within assigned duties.
Decision Authority and Boundaries
Coach approved sessions and use taught, authorized modifications. Do not independently design programs, make advanced progression decisions outside approved protocols, manage employees, change schedules or prices, make business commitments, or supervise the internship program. Helping an intern does not replace the designated qualified paid supervisor.
The directors remain responsible for their respective areas, and ownership retains overall business accountability. This role does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe rehabilitation.
Your Coaching Focus
Learn continuously, seek feedback, communicate clearly, and coach within your approved competence. Build professional habits while helping athletes safely improve.
Parisi Performance Coaching Intern
Position: Proposed Unpaid Educational Internship
Duration: One semester or one semester plus summer
Reports To: Director of Internal Operations and Programming
Daily Mentoring: Full-Time Performance Coach or another designated qualified paid coach
Schedule: Individually agreed around academic requirements
Field of Study: Exercise Science, Kinesiology, or a related educational program
Your Role
Learn performance coaching through structured education, observation, mentorship, reflection, and supervised practice. The placement supports the intern’s education, with paid staff retaining operational and coaching responsibility.
The Internal Operations Director approves the educational plan, schedule, qualified supervision, and school coordination. The Full-Time Performance Coach normally provides daily mentoring when assigned. The External Affairs Director may arrange educational exposure to partnerships or community activities through that plan.
Unpaid classification depends on the actual arrangement. Michigan employment counsel should review wage-and-hour classification before the placement and when duties change. Academic credit or the internship title alone does not establish unpaid status. No paid job or certification is promised at completion.
Your Areas of Development
- Coaching communication and exercise instruction
- Speed, agility, strength and conditioning concepts
- Athlete interaction and age-appropriate progression
- Group management, safety awareness and professional boundaries
- Reflective practice and performance-coaching knowledge
Key Areas of the Internship
Observation and Supervised Practice
Observe experienced coaches and discuss session goals, movement mechanics, cues, demonstrations, class management, and Parisi methodology. Ask questions about why an exercise or progression is selected.
Progress from observation to demonstration and limited coaching segments only under active supervision of a qualified paid coach who is present and able to intervene. The Internal Operations Director approves increased learning responsibility with supervisor input. Never lead a class alone, replace absent staff, or count toward required staffing ratios.
Learning Activities and Academic Work
Learn approved assessment methods and practice documentation with simulated or de-identified examples where feasible. A paid coach validates any actual athlete record. Develop reflective logs, lesson plans, and a learning portfolio tied to agreed objectives.
Submit only de-identified, nonproprietary academic work unless the Corporation and relevant rights holder authorize disclosure. Complete agreed school requirements and learning reviews; protect athlete information and Parisi materials.
Educational Exposure and Preparation
Participate in setup and cleanup only as incidental parts of supervised learning. Approved observation of partnership or community activities must connect to written educational objectives and be coordinated with the Internal Operations Director.
Do not assume recurring reception, sales, cleaning, marketing, or other operational shifts normally assigned to paid staff. Neither director may use the intern for substitute staffing or routine administrative support. The supervisor may slow, repeat, or stop learning exercises for educational benefit.
Supervision and Academic Coordination
Agree on learning objectives, participation hours, supervisor, faculty contact, and feedback schedule before the placement. Maintain participation and learning logs. Schedule midpoint and final reviews and accommodate classes, examinations, and academic breaks.
The designated paid supervisor provides daily feedback and shares progress with the Internal Operations Director and faculty as appropriate. Report concerns or conflicting assignments promptly. Reassess the placement if duties become productive staffing work or educational benefit diminishes; any extension needs a documented educational purpose and renewed classification review.
What Success Looks Like
- Reliable participation and preparation within the academic plan
- Curiosity, professional behavior and positive response to feedback
- Improved safety awareness, communication and supervised coaching practice
- Useful reflection and completion of educational objectives
- Appropriate boundaries and prompt reporting of concerns
Learning Evaluation
Assess observation, safety awareness, supervised practice, reflective work, and response to feedback against agreed objectives. No enrollment, sales, billable hours, independent class coverage, or employee-productivity quota applies. Limit the placement to the period that provides beneficial learning.
Decision Authority and Boundaries
No independent coaching, programming, staffing, scheduling, employee supervision, purchasing, pricing, financial, or management authority. Paid coaches remain responsible for athletes and every supervised activity. This role does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe rehabilitation.
Follow approved safety, emergency-response, consent, and athlete-safeguarding procedures. Stop unsafe activity and alert the designated paid supervisor and Internal Operations Director; use appropriate emergency resources when needed. Use approved communication channels and obtain authorization and required consent for photos or video.
Your Learning Focus
Observe, ask questions, practice with supervision, and reflect on feedback. Measure progress by what you learn and how safely you apply it.
Standards Across All Roles
Every team member follows Parisi standards, approved intake and emergency procedures, athlete safeguarding, and appropriate guardian-consent rules. Use company-approved communication channels and storage, limit access to information to assigned activities, and protect proprietary materials. Do not use personal accounts for private athlete messaging or publish athlete images without required authorization and consent.
Promptly raise unsafe conditions, equipment defects, sensitive complaints, and confidentiality concerns. Performance-coaching roles do not provide clinical diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation. Individual signed agreements govern confidentiality, intellectual property, and restrictive covenants; this role guide does not expand them.