Head Men’s and Women’s Tennis Coach

University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is seeking an experienced individual to lead and expand our Men's and Women's Tennis program as the head coach. The successful head coach must be able to articulate a vision to develop the program to compete for conference championships while maintaining its strong academic achievement.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Recruit highly successful tennis student-athletes who are both physically and academically talented, who represent UIS and Department of Athletics with good character, and who strive to graduate from UIS.
• Teach and instruct advanced level skills, techniques, and game strategies inherent in the highest level of competitive play; developing UIS tennis student-athletes to successful competitive achievements.
• Responsible for fundraising, marketing, promotion, and alumni and community engagement of UIS tennis and the Department of Athletics at UIS, including building a base of support for UIS tennis.
• Responsible for scheduling, organizing, and conducting practices and competitions, including team travel.
• Responsible for a strategic vision for success and administration of UIS men’s and women’s tennis programs including budgeting, strategic planning, organizing, and reconciling tennis accounts to ensure expenditures compliant with budget.
• Identify, manage, mentor, and oversee ethical and talented UIS tennis assistant coaching staff.
• Collaborate with athletic training staff, academic support personnel, strength and conditioning, compliance staff, and other campus personnel to enhance and support the UIS tennis student-athlete experience.
• Accountable for compliance with all NCAA Division II and Great Lakes Valley Conference rules; including submission of all compliance forms, adherence to all compliance policies and procedures, and attendance of mandatory NCAA rules education sessions.
• Monitor academic performance and progress of men’s and women’s tennis student-athletes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Proven tennis coaching experience for a minimum of three years.
• An understanding of NCAA Division II regulations.
• Demonstrated success in developing student-athletes.