Head Softball Coach
University (TX)
Central Region
Sports Services
Posted/Updated: 05/16/19
Central Region
Sports Services
Posted/Updated: 05/16/19
Job Summary
Job Description
- Responsible for oversight of recruiting, coaching and training student-athletes in the sport of softball.
- Prepare them for success in competition at the NCAA Division I level and to ensure their satisfactory academic progress through graduation.
Responsibilities
- Academics
- Create and reinforce an environment of academic expectations, achievement, and success that supports and encourages academic progress and graduation.
- In a manner consistent with institutional academic integrity, direct all communication concerning student-athletes academics through appropriate administrative and academic lines of communication.
- Administration
- Operate, manage, administer, direct, supervise, promote, and develop the sport program.
- Required documents and related administrative responsibilities must be handled in a thorough, complete, and timely manner.
- Schedule all competitions for the program in conjunction with the Director of Athletics or designee.
- Promote execution of the Athletic Department's strategic plan by adhering to its mission and core values and acting upon its goals and strategies.
- Budget
- Use university resources wisely.
- Adhere to university and department fiscal procedures and practices.
- Operate within the budgetary allotment allocated by the University.
- Coaching
- Ensure that team members are improving, developing, and progressing as athletes during their collegiate careers.
- Position program to achieve competitive goals as established in conjunction with athletics administration.
- Communication
- Maintain effective, proactive, and responsive communication throughout the athletics program.
- Emphasizing relationships with sport administrators and support services.
- Compliance
- Operate the sport program with an atmosphere of compliance, integrity, and within the scope and intent of NCAA, conference, and university regulations.
- Compliance-related activities and paperwork required of the sport program are the responsibility of the Head Coach.
- Fundraising
- Assist in promoting the University by soliciting and encouraging contributions to and support for the University's Department of Athletics.
- Make public appearances as a representative of the sport, the Department, and the University.
- Participate in efforts designed to foster increased external participation in, and support for, the Department and the University.
- Public Relations
- Cultivate and maintain effective relations with associations, conferences, alumni, media, civic groups, students, faculty, parents, and friends.
- Recruiting
- Recruit and retain student-athletes who can compete successfully on a level consistent with program expectations and who can be successful in an academic environment and graduate from the University.
- Role Model
- Be a professional representative of the University.
- Be a role model for student-athletes, the Department, and the community.
- Operate within the rules, regulations, and policies of the University and the Athletics Department.
- Sportsmanship
- Foster a positive environment that encourages and supports sportsmanship, and ensure that public statements are supportive of the University and the Athletics Department.
- Student-Athlete Development
- Contribute to the total development of the student-athletes in the program in a manner consistent with the educational values of the University.
- Provide support and assistance to service units and student-athletes with regard to academic progress and graduation.
- Team Player
- Be a positive team player.
- Set a positive example for the Department by supporting the mission and philosophy of the Athletics program and the University.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Three years' experience coaching softball at the collegiate level.
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Knowledge of NCAA rules and regulations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree.
- Proven success coaching softball at the NCAA Division I or NCAA Division II level.
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