Assistant Coach for Track and Field

• Full Time

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Assistant Coach for Track and Field

• Full Time

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Bethel University has an opening for an Assistant Coach for Track and Field.

Affiliated with the Missionary Church, Bethel University, is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the Crossroads League and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).

The track and field coach must be committed to the College's mission of Christ-centered higher education.

Responsibilities include:

• coaching
• a pastor's heart
• discipleship/mentoring
• recruiting
• scheduling
• supervising assistant coaches
• budget management
• travel arrangements
• program promotion
• ensuring program compliance with the NAIA, the Crossroads League, and the NCCAA.

Additional duties will be evaluated based on the candidates skill set. The track and field coach is also responsible for encouraging the student-athletes in their spiritual, academic, athletic, and social development.

Candidate should have a minimum of three year's collegiate coaching experience with demonstrated success in recruiting quality student athletes. Bachelor's degree is required.

As part of the online application, please upload a cover letter, resume, one page statement of philosophy of Christ-centered intercollegiate athletics, and the names of at least three professional references.

About Bethel University

The mission of Bethel University, affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination, is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethel's liberating academic programs challenge the mind, enlarge the vision, and equip the whole person for lifelong service.

Launched in 1947, Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250,000 residents, seven colleges (including Notre Dame), the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana, 15,000 businesses, 50 parks, and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1,500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states, 90 students born outside the United States, and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8,000 guests annually to arts productions, 25,000 annually in conference services, and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.

Bethel's 20,000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average, 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States, a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests, and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.

For more information visit our website at www.bethelunviersity.edu

Bethel University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, disability, national or ethnic origin in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and federal laws. In keeping with the mission of the institution, Bethel University seeks applicants with a strong commitment to the values and lifestyle of evangelical Christianity and who profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a Christian institution, we require faculty and staff to adhere to the University's Lifestyle Covenant and to enforce a religiously based statement of responsibilities for all University employees. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Bethel University, as an educational institution operating under the auspices of the Missionary Church, reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Sections 702-703, United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended).