Northern Illinois University
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Description
Essential Duties:
- Manages team of respective sport to ensure competitive performance of team and satisfactory growth and development of student-athletes.
- Schedules and conducts regular practice sessions to advance the skill set of all team members. Coaches the team during scheduled events.
- Maintains detailed statistics and records, evaluation reports, etc. for each student-athlete. Determines and implements strategy to obtain maximum team level and individual performance.
- Ability to communicate with and relate well to the female student-athlete.
- Determines competitive event schedule (may be years in advance), coordinating with teams both inside and out of the Conference.
- Recommends participation in post-season games when invitations are received.
- Maintains continual and thorough familiarity with all applicable NCAA, Conference, and University rules and regulations, and complies with same.
- Responsible for internal compliance and communication with assistant coaches, support staff, student-athletes, and prospects organizations, etc.
- Supervises all contact with prospective student-athletes to avoid violations of NCAA and other recruiting rules and regulations.
- Works closely with Academic Counselor to monitor the scholastic progress of each student-athlete. Ensures that athletes meet requirements established for athletic eligibility.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Minimum three years coaching experience in women’s volleyball at an NCAA Division I or II institution.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to NCAA rules and regulations.
- Demonstrated successful recruitment and retention of quality student-athletes particularly at the regional level (Midwest) including knowledge of AAU and high school programs [as applicable].