Executive Associate Athletics Director for Peak Performance

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Key Accountabilities

| Description |
Dartmouth Peak Performance (DP2) System Leadership

• Directs the creation of structures and operational systems that maximize the impact of technical expertise, environment, and service delivery on Dartmouth student-athletes’ ability to optimize performance through combination of best practices and innovation.
• Creates collective vision and philosophy for Dartmouth Peak Performance and develops and executes strategic plans for DP2, revising as appropriate to incorporate emerging information and technology and to meet the changing needs and requirements of student-athletes and head coaches.
• Develops systems and processes that facilitate continued communication and dissemination of knowledge across all performance departments to further student-athlete health and performance.
• Advises and develops organizational best practices to further advance and integrate sport science protocols into team processes, training programming, and periodization strategies.
• Develops assessment tools to provide analysis of student-athlete health and performance.
• Identifies key performance indicators (KPIs), in collaboration with sport coaches and other IST performance disciplines and oversees the processing and communication of data (i.e., collection, upload/entry, filtering, modeling, interpretation, and reporting).
• Develops benchmarks (e.g., normative data) of attributes needed for athletic health and performance.
• Regularly completes performance audits to determine progress, gaps, needs, and areas for improvement against KPIs.
• Leads collaborations to address fundamental performance-based questions and interdisciplinary initiatives around common ‘Performance Solutions’ that will give clarity of mission and promote a multi-disciplinary approach.
• Leads department research initiatives to identify critical qualities and metrics related to enhancing student-athlete performance, health and safety, and talent identification and partners with Dartmouth faculty, staff, and industry colleagues to develop research programs designed to enhance student-athlete development and performance where appropriate.
• Collaborates with sport coaches and team staff to support, develop, and inform talent identification processes.
• Oversees the delivery and implementation of sport science services across all integrated support team (IST) disciplines and is capable of influencing student-athlete performance planning, resources, and organizational processes through data collection, coordination, and analysis.
• Develops a network of experts on all aspects of physical and mental athletic development and initiates, develops and implements resources and programs to meet the health and performance needs of student-athletes in collaboration with practitioners, coaches, and colleagues on- and off-campus.
• Develops and improves data collection protocols for current and new assessments. Manages and administers safe, legal, and ethical practices for the dissemination of athlete, team, and related institutional performance data.
• Contracts outside consultants as necessary to supplement campus services.
• Maintains relationships with sport science technology vendors. | | Percentage Of Time | 55% |

| Description |
Peak Performance Team Management

• Leads, develops, and integrates sport performance practitioners to create a true “high performance” environment and team comprised of athletic department staff members responsible for academic support, leadership development, strength and conditioning, and career services, and campus staff responsible for athletic training, medical, nutrition, sport psychology, and integrative health services, with direct supervision over strength and conditioning, athletic training, medical, nutrition, and sport psychology and the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Peak Performance.
• Develops and utilizes a competency framework to scale practitioners against ‘best practice’, drive a high standard of fundamental services, evaluate the effectiveness of the performance-impact of the sport performance practitioners, and identify, direct, and support areas for individual development.
• Primary athletics department liaison with College Health Services (Dick’s House). | | Percentage Of Time | 30% |

| Description |
Department Administration

• Serves as a member of the Director of Athletics and Recreation leadership team.
• Contributes to department-wide administration, policy implementation, and planning efforts to support student-athlete health and performance.

• Supports department initiatives identified by senior administration to include: creating budget strategies and fundraising/development initiatives. | | Percentage Of Time | 15% |

| -- | Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and cultural awareness through actions, interactions, and communications with others. | | -- | Performs other duties as assigned |

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