Assistant Softball Coach

Assistant Softball Coach

Reports to: Head Women's Softball Coach

Job Status: Exempt

Job Summary:

Responsible for assisting head coach with recruiting and teaching a team of student-athletes the skills of their sport; mentoring the athletes in academic and personal character development; and administrative responsibilities as assigned by the head coach, all within a Christian university environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a representative of the University displaying courtesy, tact, consideration, and discretion in all interactions with other members of the HCU community and with the public
• Assist head coach in planning and executing practice sessions
• Work with student-athletes in developing skills of softball
• Assesses competitor performance
• Helps to formulate workout sessions and game plans
• Assists in recruiting efforts which involves evaluating current and potential talent at high schools and junior colleges
• Mentors students on an individual basis and in groups in developing life-skills, character building activities, and modeling Christian values for students
• Operates within the rules as required by the conference and the NCAA
• Assists with the scheduling of opponents
• Arranges for equipment, uniforms and supplies to be available for team
• Plan and execute team travel with authority to commit expenditures up to departmental budget, subject to University purchasing guidelines.
• Assists in game-day operations and court prep
• Monitor academic progress of student-athletes and counsels with them about issues and progress relative to their coursework.
• Supervise team managers
• Assist in designing and monitoring strength and conditioning program
• Other duties as assigned

Management Responsibilities:

Directly supervises student-athletes and student workers. The nature of responsibility is immediate supervision and management over individuals within the department, in addition to providing work leadership.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree Required. A minimum of one year coaching experience is required, preferably collegiate level softball coaching experience or higher. Division I experience is desirable.

Licenses, Certificates, Registrations: None

Other Job-Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the sport
• Knowledge of typical sport-related injuries
• Ability to motivate and deal effectively with people
• Good communication skills
• Must be able to pass the NCAA recruiting test
• Knowledge of college softball recruiting is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of NCAA rules is essential

Job-Relevant Competencies:

• Able to generate enthusiasm and pride among players
• Ability to provide clear direction, delega