Women's Basketball Head Coach & Fundraising Coordinator

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Women’s Basketball Head Coach and Athletics Fundraising Coordinator

Department: Athletics

FLSA Class: Salary, Exempt

Reports To: Director of Athletics, Pos. 10340001

Status: Regular, Full-Time

Location: College Place, WA

Grade: S9

Created: 2018

Updated: 6/2025

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Women’s Basketball Head Coach and Athletics Fundraising Coordinator

Department: Athletics

FLSA Class: Salary, Exempt

Reports To: Director of Athletics, Pos. 10340001

Status: Regular, Full-Time

Location: College Place, WA

Grade: S9

Created: 2018

Updated: 6/2025

Position #: 10340008

Pay Range: $53,915.20 to $61,267.27 Annually
New hires generally start at the low to mid-point within the pay range, with placement dependent on qualification and
experience.
Benefits: May include medical, retirement, paid time off, and more. To learn more, visit: wallawalla.edu/benefits

POSITION SUMMARY

This person is responsible for coaching the women's basketball team and fundraising. They are responsible
for the organization of the women's basketball team, including all administrative duties, coaching
responsibilities, and leadership/spiritual development of the team. This includes organization of activities,
scheduling events, and management and training of student-workers. This person must play an active role in
the athletics department as needed.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Women's Basketball
   

• Formulate a successful philosophy to promote educational welfare, sportsmanship, and spiritual

development of the student-athlete

• Management and supervision of all in-season and out-of-season activates of the women's
basketball team. This includes planning practice, weight training, open gyms, and all other
basketball related activities

• Be knowledgeable about all NAIA rules and regulations, Cascade Collegiate Conference

obligations, and rules of the game (including changes to the rules), and oversee all required duties
based on those rules are fulfilled
• Oversight of all team travel plans
• Recruiting and vetting of all players that are to join the team
• Work with the athletics department on fundraising opportunities
• Creating a spiritual development and leadership development plan for student-athletes
• Organizing community outreach program for women's basketball team to participate in
• Manage the year-round budget for the basketball program.
• Track all players academic success, NAIA eligibility, and progress towards a degree.
• Review student-athletes’ academic progress reports and end-of-term grades to determine

motivational needs, foster academic success, and maintain athletic qualification.

1. Athletic Fundraising Coordinator
   

• Work with the Director of Athletics and coordinate athletic sponsors and donors for the

department and individual teams.

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• Meet monthly with the Vice President of Advancement and Alumni Engagement (or their

designee) to review needs and strategy regarding fundraising efforts.

• Manage a portfolio of prospective donors and facilitate aspects of the gift cycle in collaboration

with the Advancement Office.

• Coordinate solicitation, program sponsorships, and gifts in kind according to WWU established

policies and procedures.

• Adhere to fund-raising processes and utilize relationship management tools as directed, including

utilizing database systems for data collection, analysis, and reporting.

• Participate in the planning and implementation of logistics for fundraising events, seeking

sponsorships and participants, etc. for events such as:

o Eugene Winters Golf Classic
o Howlin’ Wolves Series
o Wolves Fun Run

1. Performs other duties as assigned formally or informally, orally or in writing.
   

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

“Non-essential” If a duty takes up less than 5% of the employees’ time and is not viewed as a critical function
it is likely considered “non-essential” within the context of the ADA. These duties could be reassigned to
another employee in order to allow a disabled individual to hold the position.

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SUPERVISION RECEIVED & GIVEN

Supervision Received: Employee has broad management responsibility for a large program or set of related
functions. Administrative direction is usually received in terms of goals; review is received in terms of results.

Supervision Given: Yes, assistant coaches and student workers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree preferred.
• Licenses/Certifications: N/A
• Experience/Skills

• Years of experience: 3-5 years, 5-10 years preferred.
• Quality/Compliance: Achieving a standard of excellence with our work processes and
outcomes, demonstrating strong attention to detail, honoring University policies and all
regulatory requirements, and maintaining confidentiality.

• Customer Focus: Striving for high customer satisfaction, going out of their way to be helpful
and pleasant, making it easy as possible on the customer rather than our department or the
University.

• Communication: Balancing listening and talking, speaking and writing clearly and accurately,

influencing others, keeping others informed.

• Collegiality: Being helpful, respectful, approachable and team-oriented, building strong working
relationships and a positive work environment, and ability to relate to and work with diverse
groups of people.
Initiative: Taking ownership of work responsibilities, doing what is needed without being asked,
following through.

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• Efficiency: Planning ahead, managing time well, being on time and dependable, being cost

conscious, thinking of better ways to do things.

• Coachability: Being receptive to feedback, willing to learn, embracing continuous improvement.
• People management: Setting clear expectations, reviewing progress, providing timely feedback

and guidance, holding people accountable.

ADDITIONAL JOB-SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum: Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access. Preferred: Database
Management Software.

WORK CONDITIONS/ENVIRONMENT

Job Conditions:

• Frequent: Travel, Working more than 40 hours/week, Weekend Work, Computer use, Fasted-paced

work, and Speaking, reading, and understanding English.

• Occasional: On-call/after-hours work and Driving/operating machinery or vehicles.

Lifting/Moving:

• Frequent: Pushing, Pulling, Lifting and Carrying 50-100 pounds.

Physical:

• Frequent: Stooping, kneeling, crouching and/or crawling, Walking and/or running, Moving from
one location to another, Standing, Sitting, Climbing or balancing, Reaching, handling, fingering,
and/or feeling i.e. computer use, Talking and/or hearing, Using feet/legs to control equipment,
Seeing/vision.

Environment:

• Frequent: Indoor, Outdoor and Fumes/Dust/Odors.
• Occasional: Wet/Dry Conditions, Cold/Heat and Noise/Vibrations.

Equipment: Computer, copy machines, whistle, UTV, Tables, chairs, game scoring equipment and phone.

APPLY NOW

Applications are being accepted now, with the position filled as soon as a qualified candidate is
identified.

• For external applicants, apply here.
• For internal applicants (active employees, not including student employees), apply here.

Please also submit a cover letter and resume along with the employment application. Within the
employment application, an option is provided to upload your cover letter and resume.

Thank you for considering employment at Walla Walla University!

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