Summary: Queens University of Charlotte, an NCAA Division II affiliate, seeks qualified candidates for the position of Assistant Coach, Sports Performance. This is an hourly, part-time (20 hours/week) position reporting to the Director of Sports Performance.

This position is not exempt from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and is eligible to earn overtime pay for hours worked above 40 in a single work week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:
• Under direction of Director, oversee student athletes’ exercise and weight training and activities, work with athletic trainers and coaches to build strength, improve flexibility, and assist in the rehabilitation efforts student athletes
• Ensure the health and safety of student athletes during all strength and conditioning activities
• Work with coaches and teams directly assigned by the Director
• Deliver strength training and conditioning programs using scientifically based principles to ensure safety of the student-athlete and effectiveness
• Assist the Director in developing and applying sports performance coaching techniques, overall team and individual player strategies
• Assist student athletes with individual performance and provide direction for improvements
• Develop, deliver and oversee weight room training
• Participate in summer sport camps

Non-Essential Duties
• Other duties may be assigned as needed

Experience, Knowledge and Skills Required
• Solid understanding of exercise and weight training techniques used to build strength, improve flexibility and ensure progression of student athlete rehabilitation
• College athletics administration experience
• Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Proven track record of consistently modeling positive behaviors at all times
• Strong follow-up and follow-through skills as well as ability to plan, organize and control projects through to completion
• Ability to handle and maintain confidential information
• Valid, unrestricted U.S. driver’s license required and willingness to regularly travel between Queens’ main campus and its Sports Complex
• Willingness and ability to work a flexible schedule to meet requirements of the position, including early mornings, nights and weekends.
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in experience and education

Physical Requirements (with or without reasonable accommodation)
• Visual Abilities: Read reports, create presentations and use a computer system.
• Hearing: Hear well enough to communicate with co-workers, vendors, and students.
• Dexterity, Grasping, Feeling: Write, type and use the telephone, copier, and computer systems.
• Mobility: Open files and operate office machines; move between departments and attend meetings across campus.
• Talking: Frequently convey detailed or important instructions and ideas accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Lifting, Pulling, Pushing: Exert up to 50 pounds for force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Work Conditions
• Must be willing and able to work a flexible schedule to meet requirements of the position, including early mornings, nights and weekends.
• Must be willing and able to occasionally travel (by car, air, bus or other modes as appropriate; overnight stays) with assigned team
• Work in fitness center, office environment and outdoors, involving contact with student athletes, staff, faculty students, parents, service providers and vendors.
• Work has deadlines, multiple interruptions and may be stressful at times.

The position will be removed from the website once an offer is extended and accepted, or when a sufficient candidate pool is identified. Due to limited staff resources, phone calls cannot be accepted or returned.

Benefits

Queens offers some benefits to part-time employees, including ability to contribute to the university’s non-matching supplemental retirement plan (403(b)). In addition, employees may choose benefits such as pet insurance, critical care insurance and legal assistance.

About Queens
Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, Presbyterian-affiliated comprehensive university located in the heart of Myers Park in Charlotte, NC, and is consistently ranked in the top tier of Southern Regional Masters Universities. The university has over 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students in programs offered six colleges/schools. Additional information about may be found at http://www.queens.edu.

Queens values campus diversity and demonstrates this in campus initiatives; we particularly encourage members of historically under-represented groups to apply. Only candidates who best match requirements of job will be contacted. 

Queens University of Charlotte is an equal opportunity employer and is firmly committed to supporting and celebrating all forms of diversity. Queens does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sex (including pregnancy, child birth and conditions related to pregnancy or child birth), gender orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, national origin, disability, political beliefs, veteran status, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law in the administration of its educational and admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic programs, employment and hiring policies, or other university-administered programs. Any applicant for employment who needs any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act should contact the Director of Human Resources at 704.337.2297.