Employment Opportunity - Women's Basketball Head Coach

Reporting to the Director of Athletics and Recreation, the primary purpose of the Women’s Basketball Head Coach is to provide leadership to the student-athletes and Women’s Basketball program. This is achieved through the coaching, recruitment, retention and community relations duties required in organizing a competitive and successful team, while promoting academic success for the student-athletes.

Key accountabilities include leading a competitive program, promoting student-athlete academic success, maintaining an active recruiting plan, fundraising, promoting positive community relations, and utilizing instructional techniques to ensure successful delivery of coaching strategies.

The incumbent provides a wide range of services such as sport technical expertise, promotion, conflict resolution and guidance to student-athletes in an inclusive environment. The position requires knowledge and understanding of community, provincial, national and international trends in sport development activities and opportunities.

The Women’s Basketball head coach is guided by values that are endorsed by all Athletics Department members and that define the Athletics Department culture. These values include a commitment to the following:

• The pursuit of professional and personal excellence
• Fairness, honesty, and integrity
• Projection of a positive image in the community
• Academics-before-athletics approach for the student-athletes
• Safety of all program participants

Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Develop and revise training material to maximize athletic and team performance through use of various instructional strategies to run practice sessions
• Recruit student-athletes
• Create a balanced training schedule that enables student-athletes to succeed academically.
• Support student-athletes at competitions locally, provincially and nationally
• Assess the mental and physical condition of student-athletes to ensure safety of the participants and provide a safe environment for volunteers, student-athletes and colleagues
• Understand and follow all department, institutional, conference, and national policies & procedures.

Administration

• Ensure student-athletes meet ACAC and CCAA eligibility requirements and complete all student athlete forms adhering to deadlines related to eligibility, scholarship, and department requests.
• Collection of Student-Athlete Information and documentation related to athletic therapy, medical, drug education, and personal information forms
• Track and administer scholarship offer letters within the parameters of the department policies.
• Select, hire, and train all program required support staff (assistant coaches, equipment managers, trainers)
• Participate in and coordinate team, department, and institution fundraising initiatives and manage team fundraising account

Communications

• Communicate department information with student-athletes and assistant coaches and fulfill all other sports information requests from the department
• Check emails and respond to student-athlete inquiries and department requests in a timely manner.

Community Involvement

• Develop and encourage participation in team community service initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Effective problem solving skills and decision making skills
• Proficient in computer use , specifically word, excel, email
• Financially accountable
• Ability to communicate effectively and maintain working relationships with internal staff
• Excellent administrative and organizational skills
• Ability to multitask and work quickly high attention to detail
• Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability to perform sustained physical labour
• Knowledge of institutional, department and conference policies and procedures

Education and Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a related field; a master’s degree is preferred.
• Coaching experience at the College, University, Junior, Provincial, National, or Professional level.
• The incumbent must hold a Valid Class 5 Driver’s License
• NCCP Level 2 Certification (or equivalent); willingness to work on NCCP Level 3 certification (or equivalent).
• Physical stamina to participate in training programs and practices is recommended.
• Evenings & weekends required

Closing Date: Application review will commence will continue until the position is filled.

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Concordia University of Edmonton encourages applications from members of racialized groups, visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, women, persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression, and others who may support a diversity of perspectives at CUE. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.  We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.