Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop a competitive program consistent with the athletic department vision.
• Develop an overall recruitment strategy. Meet or exceed annual recruitment goals established in collaboration with the Director of Athletics; maintain or exceed optimal roster size annually.
• Monitor and support academic success and personal growth of each student-athlete towards retention and graduation.
• Schedule and conduct regular practice sessions within both traditional and non-traditional seasons as permitted by NCAA and departmental rules and regulations.
• Effectively teach individual skills, team concepts, and competitive values; plan and execute practice, conditioning, strength sessions, and game plans.
• Schedule use of facilities for practice and competitions. Responsible for arranging a competitive, balanced schedule. Collaborate with office partners on campus including strength and conditioning, sports medicine, health and counseling, and other support services to ensure that student-athletes are well prepared for competition and their overall development and growth.
• Ensure safety through careful monitoring of the condition of equipment and facilities utilized by the team. Responsible for submitting requests for repair, maintenance, and facility improvements as needed and in collaboration with department staff.
• Prepare and submit the sports’ annual budget and monitor all expenditures to ensure fiscal responsibility and a thoughtful use of resources.
• Initiate and coordinate the selection, purchase, fitting, and maintenance of team apparel and equipment – including uniforms, equipment, and supplies.
• Coordinate the hiring, training, and mentoring of assistant coaches and/or graduate assistants with the Director.
• Facilitate team travel arrangements.
• Demonstrate leadership, sportsmanship, and mature conduct as the head coach of the program.
• Support annual fundraising and alumni outreach in collaboration with the Director of Athletics and Office of Development.
• Ensure personal, team, and assistant coaches all adhere to all NCAA, conference, and college processes and rules.
• Attend provided/necessary training and meetings to support effectiveness within the position as required. Participate regularly in available professional development opportunities.
• Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required.
• Perform other functions as assigned by management including a secondary role.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelors required, Masters, preferred.
2. At least two years of coaching or playing experience in an intercollegiate athletics setting is strongly preferred.
3. Must have time management flexibility and be able to sustain long work hours, including evenings, early mornings, and weekends.
4. Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
5. First Aid, CPR, AED training certification required.

About Keuka College

Since its founding in 1890 as a college of liberal arts and practical learning, Keuka College has graduated generations of humanists and scientists, contributive citizens and caring leaders: women and men energetically engaged in the art of leading productive and fulfilling lives. Keuka College students are chosen for reasons of ability and character, and during their Keuka College years, they develop those abilities, discover others they did not know they had, and take responsibility not only of the course of their educations, but the pursuit of their own happiness. Keuka College is a warm, welcoming and diverse community of people of different faiths and beliefs, who share a fundamental optimism born of resilience and resourcefulness. Assembled on our serene college campus on the shore of one of the world’s most beautiful glacial lakes, and in other venues around the region and across the globe, Keuka College students are engaging in the mindful, mutually supportive work of deep learning—about themselves, about each other, and about the unmet needs of the world.

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