Associate Head Coach Women’s Basketball

The Women’s Basketball Associate Head Coach is responsible for assisting the Head Coach in organizing and managing all phases of a Division I Women’s Basketball program, including recruiting, team travel, strength & conditioning, student-athlete academic monitoring, public speaking, competition scheduling, budget management, and community/donor relations.

Duties:

• Coaches team at practices and competitive events. May have responsibility for practice and competition oversight in absence of head coach.
• Oversee academic and personal well-being of student-athletes.
• Assist in building a nationally competitive Division I basketball program through successfully recruiting and retaining high-level student-athletes.
• Collaborates with the Head Coach, Athletic Trainers, and Strength and Conditioning Coach to design academic year (in-season and out-of-season) and summer conditioning programs.
• Assist with budgeting, reconciling expenses, and proposing purchases for the sports program.
• Serve as a key liaison to the broader (University) community, engaging in alumni, fundraising, and other key stakeholder activities.
• Organizes community service events for the team.
• Responsible for assisting in all phases of a Division I intercollegiate women’s basketball program, which includes scheduling, recruiting, travel coordination, budgets, and fundraising.
• Must be committed to the academic goals of the university and follow the rules and guidelines set forth by the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience coaching women’s basketball programs.
• Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.