Job Overview
Responsibilities:
- Cultivate a welcoming and competitively minded performance teaching and training environment to support student athlete holistic health, safety and success.
- Inspire competitive excellence by encouraging and developing emotional and mental resilience.
- Design and lead year-round, periodized strength and conditioning programs and activities for assigned sports.
- Effectively instruct and motivate participants on safe and proper execution of lifts, drills, exercises, and/or movement patterns to enhance athletic skill, ability and capacity.
- Plan and manage team and individual testing and analyze testing results and biometric markers for practical application.
- Maintain continuous communication with assigned head coaches to ensure that the training program outcomes support team objectives and priorities
- Provide head coaches with analysis of biometric data and performance indicators to improve individual performance and team outcomes and for modifications to training, practice and competition plans.
- Actively collaborate with sports medicine personnel to provide holistic care, including injury prevention and exercise modification strategies. Play active role in the reconditioning of student-athletes returning to activity from injury.
- Bachelor’s degree required. Two years related experience at the NCAA Division I level or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
- Current National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification (CSCS) or Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) Strength & Conditioning Coach Certified (SCCC) certification required at time of hire. Current adult CPR/First Aid/AED certification is also required at time of hire.
- Ideal candidates have strong analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to operate independently and collaborate effectively in a team environment; are committed to promoting inclusive excellence and the university’s mission, vision, and values; have demonstrated discretion and professional judgment relative to student care; and possess working knowledge of, and commitment to, NCAA rules and guidelines.
- All positions at Seattle University require a criminal history background check.
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