Intercollegiate Athletics - Assistant Women's Basketball Coach - Full-Time

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Position Summary & Description

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) invites applicants for a full-time Assistant Women's Basketball Coach to assist in all aspects of the IUP Women's Basketball program at the Division II level and to create a quality student-athlete experience in academics, athletics, and community service.

Duties:

Position Summary & Description

The Office of Intercollegiate Athletics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) invites applicants for a full-time Assistant Women's Basketball Coach to assist in all aspects of the IUP Women's Basketball program at the Division II level and to create a quality student-athlete experience in academics, athletics, and community service.

Duties:

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• Assist in monitoring and encouraging academic progress and success of student athletes to ensure continuing eligibility to participate in NCAA competition and to graduate.
• Assist in game preparation (e.g. player conditioning, training, skill building, scouting other teams, and player development coaching).
• Assist in player recruitment by maintaining contact with high school/club coaches to identify potential prospects, conducting campus visits, developing a recruiting schedule and recommendations for scholarships.
• Assist in coordination and participation in fund-raising activities in support of IUP's athletic program.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Director of Athletics or Head Women's Basketball Coach. Instructional Duties:
• Provide instruction to student athletes in position technique.
• Provide instruction to student athletes sport strategy.
• Provide instruction to student athletes in game analysis.
• Provide instruction to student athlete regarding specific game plans.
• Provide instruction to student athletes regarding physical conditioning and strength training.
• Provide instruction to student athlete regarding NCAA rules.
• Provide instruction to student athletes regarding university and program policies and procedures.
• Provide instruction to student athletes in leadership & conduct.
• Provide instruction to student athletes in community responsibility.
• Provide academic monitoring and counseling to student athletes.
• Provide instruction to camp attendees. Non-Instructional Duties:
• Monitor student athlete academic ineligibility.
• Scouting competition.
• Monitor compliance with IUP, PSAC, and NCAA rules and regulations.
• Recruit student athletes.
• Participate in fundraising activities and other fiscal responsibilities.
• Other specific duties as assigned by the Director of Athletics, or Head Women's Basketball Coach.

Position Qualifications

Required:

• Previous NCAA collegiate women’s basketball playing experience.
• Experience with summer camps administration or coaching. Candidates must have the communication skills and cross-cultural abilities to maximize their effectiveness with diverse groups of students, colleagues, and community members.
  

Candidates must communicate effectively and perform well in the interview(s).

Essential Functions

This position is heavily involved in outdoor activity and has periods of heavy exertion. Incumbents must have the following abilities:

1. Ability to travel to field locations and meeting/training sites by motor vehicle when required.
2. To work under a variety of adverse weather conditions such as extreme heat, cold, rain, wind, dust and snow.
3. To be able to work extended hours under adverse conditions in response to emergency conditions.
4. To work in hazardous situations such as around moving heavy equipment, in and around traffic, at heights, on steep grades, and on ladders and uneven surfaces.
5. Employee must be able to observe and react to hazardous warnings, back-up alarms, flashing lights, voice commands and hand signals.
6. To perform manual laboring duties such as lifting and carrying various weights.
7. Setting up, operating, testing and measuring equipment.
8. Using hand tools such as hammers, pry bars, and taking and transporting material samples.
9. Work often requires stooping, kneeling, bending, stretching and prolonged standing.
10. To withstand exposure to chemical agents, exhaust gases and lubricants, solvents, poisonous plants, animals, and insects and potential injuries such as bruises, scrapes, cuts, strains and sprains.
11. To wear all types of required protective gear such as a hard hat, footgear, hearing and eye protection, gloves and respirators.

Special Instructions to Applicants

To apply for this position , please submit a cover letter, a resume, and unofficial copies of transcripts, via our online application system: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/iu....

Automated reference requests and a confirmation email will be generated upon submission of your application. Candidates who fail to submit all of the aforementioned materials will not be considered.

If the degree listed as required for this position was earned at IUP - no official transcripts are required to be submitted as part of this employment application. IUP HR will verify IUP obtained degrees and only request official transcripts from candidates if needed. Official transcripts will be required prior to hire date for applicants who did not earn the required degrees at IUP.

Applications must be received no later than June 2, 2024 by 11:59 p.m.

Committed to excellence through diversity, IUP is an equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V and is a proud member of the State System of Higher Education.

All offers of employment are contingent upon verification of earned degrees through the receipt of official transcripts, confirmation of work eligibility, and satisfactory completion of background checks.