Job Description: Scouting Supervisor, South Texas
Department: Baseball Operations – Domestic Amateur Scouting
FLSA Status: Club Employment Contract
Date Created: 9/5/2025
Date Reviewed: 8/10/2026
Job Summary:
To support the Amateur Scouting department through player evaluation and recommendations for the annual Major League Rule 4 Draft.
Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Experience:
- Professional or Amateur scouting experience for a professional baseball club preferred.
- Experience playing college and/or professional baseball preferred.
- Collegiate coaching with recruiting experience preferred.
Skills
- Independent judgment and ability to multitask is required to plan, prioritize, and organize diversified workload.
- High level of attention to detail and strong work ethic.
- Understanding of baseball operations structure.
- Must be trustworthy and comfortable with managing sensitive information.
- High level of interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of departments, seniority levels, and personalities.
- Working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Other
- Spoken and written fluency in English
- Ability to travel within the United States and internationally.
- Active driver’s license and clean driving record.
- May require relocation.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Player Evaluation – 40%
- Complete evaluation of all high school and college players within the territory.
- Have intimate knowledge of territory schools, coaches and players.
- File scouting reports that detail player assessments including medical information, psychological testing and potential signability of the player.
- Prepare follow lists of players within territory.
Makeup Evaluation – 25%
- Develop working relations with all baseball-related people, groups, and associates within territory.
- Coordinate player and/or family meetings.
Communication & Analysis – 25%
- Able to interpret analytics.
- Effectively communicate to build successful relationships with cross-checkers and the scouting director.
Administrative – 10%
- Complete necessary documents and administrative duties in a professional and thorough manner.
- Complete expense reports in a timely and professional manner.
- Full and complete knowledge of all Major League Baseball rules and regulations.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or department director.
Reports To: Regional Crosschecker
Next Role to Develop Toward: Performance-Based
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit, stand and walk for extended periods throughout the day
- Ability to bend, squat, reach, and climb stairs regularly in the course of daily dutie
- Comfortable working in varying conditions (heat, humidity, cold, outdoors, and spaces like locker rooms).
- Ability to handle repetitive tasks such as watching games, workouts, etc.
- Sufficient hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity for tasks like using a stopwatch, radar gun, and note-taking surface (notebooks, tablet note-taking, etc).
- Ability to work long and variable hours, including weekends and holidays.
- Ability to drive and/or fly short and long distances, day or night in various conditions.
Expectations:
- Adhere to Cincinnati Reds Organization Policies and Procedures.
- Act as a role model within and outside the Cincinnati Reds Organization.
- Perform duties as workload necessitates.
- Demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload.
- Meet department productivity standards.
- Willingness to learn. Open to new methodologies.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
The Cincinnati Reds are an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the Cincinnati Reds to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion or creed, sex, age, military or veteran status, disability, citizenship status, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
Disclaimer:
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this position. The above description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties. Additional duties, as assigned, may become part of the job function. The duties listed above is, therefore, a partial representation not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of a person in this position.
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