Assistant Baseball Coach

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Staff

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Department:

Baseball

Locations:

Wooster, OH

Posted:

Aug 16, 2024

Closes:

Sep 16, 2024 - 11:59 PM EDT

Type:

Full-time Exempt

PositionID:

180097

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About The College of Wooster:

Wooster offers an excellent, comprehensive liberal arts education, culminating in a rigorous senior project, in which each student works one-on-one with a faculty mentor to conceive, organize and complete a significant research project on a topic of the student's own choosing. Through this distinctive program, every Wooster student develops abilities valued by employers and graduate schools alike: independent judgment, analytical ability, creativity, project-management and time-management skills, and strong written and oral communication skills. Founded in 1866, the college enrolls approximately 2,000 students.

The College offers a comprehensive benefits program that includes: Health, Dental, Retirement, and Tuition Remission for eligible positions.

Job Description:

Summary:

The Assistant Baseball Coach supports the Head Coach in coaching duties of one of a variety of individual or team intercollegiate team sports programs governed by NCAA Operating Bylaws. The assistant coach develops players both on and off the field, promoting good decision-making, scholarship, and sportsmanship. They contribute to the baseball program's efforts, collaborating with the College to raise awareness of the team's and individual players' accomplishments on campus and in the community. The position assists the Head Coach with all aspects of recruitment, training of student-athletes, and the total organization and administration of the program.

Essential Departmental Duties and Responsibilities:

Assists the Head Coach in organizing, preparing, and conducting practices, training, and competition.
Coaches and develops a specific position group, both on and off the field, in line with the program's vision.
Creates position-specific practice plans for individual/group sessions (15-40 min) that address the program's needs for the day, week, or season.

• Supports practice and gameday preparations.
• Assists with general facility maintenance.
• Provides input regarding individuals and the practice plan/gameplan decisions.
• Responsible for scouting report duties as assigned.
• Assists with implementing and supervising athletic training, strength, and conditioning workouts, and provides technical support and training to athletes.
• Contributes to recruiting efforts, including identifying prospects, communication with recruits and coordinating campus visits.
• Identify potential prospective student athletes via mailings, video, emails, tournament in person scouting, HS in person scouting, JC in person scouting, and use of contacts and referrals.
• Communicates with recruits, tracks interactions using recruiting software, organizes campus visits with the Head Coach and Admissions, and compiles recruit contact information.
• Communicates with high school coaches, coordinates mailings and visits with Admissions, attends home visits with Head Coach, sends personalized notes, follows up with top recruits, and makes regional recruiting trips.
• May perform administrative duties including ordering and maintaining equipment and supplies, monitoring budgets, and event management.
• Maintains a good working relationship with other College departments and athletic administrative and coaching staff.
• Assists as a team member and support source for The College of Wooster Athletic Department.
• May be assigned additional duties in teaching, committee and administrative work. These responsibilities are determined annually by the Head Coach, Chair of Physical Education, and Director (Associate Director) of Athletics and Physical Education.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Knowledge and understanding of the sport, and sport specific certification, as appropriate.
• Knowledge of NCAA regulations and guidelines governing the recruitment and retention of student-athletes.
• CPR, First Aid, and AED Certification is required (and can be completed after hire).
• The ability to obtain College driver certification is desirable.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Proficiency in writing reports and correspondence.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively and professionally with students, faculty and staff, and the public are required.
• Capability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Knowledge:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Basic Word/Excel and ability to learn and operate recruiting software.

Abilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to the priorities and ideals of The College of Wooster and the Department of Athletics and Physical Education.
• Commitment to CoW's mission, vision and values and demonstrated ability to create and sustain an organizational climate based on inclusion, social justice, and equity.
• Commitment to supporting students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to read, understand, follow, and enforce safety regulations.
• Knowledge of financial/business analysis techniques.
• Manages several projects simultaneously and works well under pressure.
• Flexibility to respond to changing priorities.
• Ability to foster a cooperative work environment.
• Maintains composure in high-pressure situations.
• Must have the ability to interact in a sensitive, courteous, and understanding way with members of a diverse academic community; including students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
• Strong professional ethics and discretion with an attitude of respect for all employed at CoW.

Work Environment:

• Assistant Coaches are required to work flexible hours, including evenings, weekends, or holidays.
• Travel for athletic contests, recruiting, coaches meetings and convention/caucus attendance is required.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Assistant Coach regularly travels in outside weather conditions, is exposed to wet or humid conditions, extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, and is occasionally exposed to fumes, smoke, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Physical Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the coach is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The individual must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Additional Information:

The College of Wooster does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex/gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, political affiliation, religion, creed, ethnicity, national origin (including ancestry), citizenship status, disability, age, marital status, family responsibilities, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy, or by state, local, or federal law. All offers of employment are subject to verification of the legal right to work in the United States as required by federal law. The College of Wooster is committed by policy and practice to diversity, equity and inclusion. For more information see our nondiscrimination policy.

Application Instructions:

For highest consideration please submit a resume, cover letter, and a list of 3 professional references which includes name, telephone number and email address.

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