Collegiate and Youth Sports Performance Coach

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Posted Job Title

Collegiate and Youth Sports Performance Coach

Job Profile Title

Temporary Employee - Non-Exempt

Job Description Summary

This role involves the planning, coordination, and implementation of Young Quakers Community Athletics Sports and Penn Sports Performance programs. The position works directly with Penn Sports Performance and Young Quakers staff to provide strength and conditioning and sports programming for both collegiate and youth athletes. Duties include program design and implementation, communication, equipment management, and documentation. The position also requires direct supervision of Penn student-athletes. Programming takes place both on Penn’s campus and at schools in West Philadelphia.

Job Description

THE NETTER CENTER

Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is the University's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. It brings together the resources and assets of both the University and the wider community to help solve universal problems such as poverty, health inequities, environmental sustainability, and inadequate, unequal education as they are manifested in the University's local geographic area of West Philadelphia and Philadelphia at large. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and West Philadelphia that advance research, teaching, learning, practice, and service and improve the quality of life on campus and in the community. The Netter Center works with and serves as a model for other higher education institutions across the United States and around the world.

The Netter Center’s university-assisted community schools (UACS) is a strategy to educate, engage, empower, and serve all members of the community in which the school is located and engage students (K-16+) in real world, community problem solving.  The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI) is a major component of the University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS) program of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

PENN SPORTS PERFORMANCE

The Sports Performance Department, a Center of Excellence in Penn Athletics, is a highly dynamic, interactive, and visible component in which the Strength and Conditioning Department