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Your Baseball Community Needs Your Help!

The season cannot happen without the 100% volunteer staff that makes it all possible.  Seeing the kids enjoy themselves, outside, without a device is very rewarding.  But, as our kids grow and age out of the program, we need to backfill our roles to keep DAA Baseball available and affordable for the community.  Many of our volunteers have been doing their roles for over 5 years…it’s time for new volunteers to help.  

How Much Time is Involved?  It’s not that much time, please ask to learn more.  Most of the Board members have multiple kids, playing on multiple teams, different sports, full time jobs, etc.  Please learn more about the roles before making a decision.

Please take the time to review the open positions we have available for NEXT season.  NO Baseball knowledge is needed….just a desire to lend a hand and be involved.

Position Available Role Timing
Baseball Sports Director (Baseball President)

This role is the overall leader of the organization. This role requires coordinating the work of the whole Baseball board. The BSD is responsible for:

 

  1. Reviewing all budgets: Spring/Fall In-house, Travel Teams and Capital Projects.
  2. Attending monthly DAA main board meetings.
  3. Leading the monthly baseball board meetings.
  4. Making decisions when there is impasse amongst other team members.
  5. Handling various issues ranging from municipality issues, parent feedback, other baseball league coordination throughout the season.
  6. Administrating the discipline process when necessary for players, coaches, and fans
  • This position is a year round responsibility.
Junior Sports Director

 

  • The JSD reports to the Baseball Sports Director.
  • The JSD coordinates all the activities of the League Directors that run junior in-house baseball.
  • The JSD coordinates the registration process, makes decisions on team composition if necessary, works on projects as necessary, helps set-up clinics and player development opportunities, organizes the in-season schedule in conjunction with the scheduler.
  • The JSD ensure league directors and coaches are adhering to DAA baseball norms.
  • The JSD also ensure uniform and trophy ordering is handled appropriately.
  • The JSD attends monthly baseball board meetings and this position is a year round responsibility.
  • This position is a year round responsibility.

Travel Director

  1. Handles all internal DAA Travel responsibilities associated with the current season such as coordinating schedules, uniform ordering & umpire scheduling.
  2.  Liaison between Suburban Travel and DAA. This requires attendance at monthly. Suburban meetings (in Bensalem) and actively communicating back to DAA important and relevant information.
  3.  Cal Ripken Registration and organization. This requires engagement and interaction with the local Cal Ripken reps to ensure all teams are registered and eligible for the tournament.
  4. Facilitate Travel Team budgets between travel teams, baseball treasurer, and baseball President.
  5. In addition to the above this role requires organization and attention to detail. You will be communicating both internally with all Travel Coaches and externally with Suburban Travel and Cal Ripken. All Travel related issues will be the responsibility of the Travel Director.
  6. This position allows you to have an upfront seat to how the organization operates and a lens on what’s happening around the league. It’s extremely rewarding and allows you to engage with many across the organization.

In Season (October - June)

  • Varies, but usually 1-3 hours per week. This will vary based on what month we are in. Busiest period is March through June. March/April additional time will be spent due to coordinating schedules, umpires, and fields.
League Directors
  • For each in-house age group, DAA Baseball has a league director that coordinates the formation of teams from the registration file and assigns coaches. The LD helps coaches navigate their schedules and is the liaison between the coaches and DAA resources. They are invited to attend the monthly board meetings but are not required to do so.
  • The LD’s are most busy in February-April then have less activity once the in-house season starts. The LD’s have no responsibility from the end of season in June through February.
Baseball Secretary

This role is a voting member of the executive board. Those interested should be organized and proficient with Microsoft programs, Word, Teams, OneDrive and willing to take on league communication though an administrative role in Demosphere.
Responsibilities Include:

 

  1. Keeping updated email communication list for both executive board members and general baseball committee members
  2.  Coordinating monthly TEAMS administration calls between executive board members and baseball committee members
  3. Maintaining accurate minutes of meetings and sharing those minutes with baseball committee members
  4. Maintaining the baseball committee OneDrive for file storage
  5. Sending league communication through SportsEngine to DAA Baseball families inclusive of registration deadlines, fundraising efforts, and inclement weather updates
  • Social media postings (Instagram and Facebook) as well as the DAA Baseball website management are no longer responsibilities of this position, they are run through a paid position hired by DAA.
Field Maintenance Director
  • This is mostly a vendor management role to ensure the fields are repaired and maintained in good order and to the expectation of the municipalities.
  • The FMD procures field products, coordinates contractor delivery and work, sets and manages field improvements, trains coaches on how to properly prepare and maintain the baseball fields.
  • The FMD coordinates the maintenance of the field cart equipment.
  • The FMD also coordinates field maintenance day which is the pre-season kickoff to get the fields ready for spring baseball.
  • The role activity varies throughout the year but tends to be busiest in  Feb/March and during capita improvements.
   

 

 

THANK YOU for helping your baseball community!!!