Assistant Athletic Performance Coach
About the role
The Assistant Athletic Performance Coach position at the University of Iowa is seeking an experienced strength and conditioning coach with a bachelor's degree in an exercise-related field and certified by either the CSCCa or NSCA.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree (or international equivalent) in exercise related field;
- CSCCa Strength and Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC) or NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS);
- One year of experience working as a strength and conditioning coach in a collegiate or professional setting;
- Demonstrated extensive proficiency in:
- designing speed, strength, and conditioning programs in a progressive manner;
- assisting the rehabilitative phase of injury recovery;
- sports technology for monitoring and performance assessment;
- force plates and/or velocity based training
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Demonstrated experience in performance management, including effectively teaching and supervising small and large groups of student-athletes;
Demonstrated experience and working knowledge of:
- Utilizing basic office support software (word processing, email, presentation software and spreadsheets)
- Operating effectively within a highly regulated team environment.
Desired Qualifications
- Higher education coursework in a related field;
- Experience coaching elite-level athletes at the collegiate level is highly desired;
- Experience coaching baseball student athletes at the collegiate or professional level is highly desired;
- Demonstrated experience and working knowledge of:
- NCAA Division I strength and conditioning processes, issues, considerations;
- Management and implementation of performance/readiness metrics.
Application Process
Visit our website at http://jobs.uiowa.edu and search for keywords “Assistant Coach”. Only applications submitted at https://jobs.uiowa.edu will be accepted.
Job openings are posted for a minimum of 7 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.
Applicants must upload a resume and cover letter and mark them as a relevant file to the submission. Applications without both a cover letter and resume will be considered incomplete and ineligible for consideration.
Successful candidates will be subject to a credential/education verification and criminal background check and be required to self-disclose any conviction history.
Five professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.
As a part of the University of Iowa’s review of your application and consistent with its policies and practices, the University may access and/or view information about you that is job-related and publicly available on the internet, including but not limited to information on social media sites. The access, viewing and/or use of such information is governed by the University’s Policy on Human Rights, as well as state and federal law.
For questions or additional information, please contact athletics tanner-erwin@uiowa.edu
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Equal opportunity employer
The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, or associational preferences.