Assistant Football Coach - Offensive

Title:Assistant Football Coach Offensive

Position Purpose:

The Offensive Assistant Coach focuses primarily in the areas of planning and directing recruitment conditioning training and performance of studentathletes along with fiscal management of the program. This is a professional assistant coaching position and all of the duties of the position must be conducted in adherence with the policies rules and regulations of affiliated national regional and state intercollegiate athletic associations the NESCAC Conference and the College.

Job Duties:

In Season: (August to November)

• Coaches studentathletes at the direction of the head coach
• Attends practices games scrimmages and additional time working directly with studentathletes
• Participates in video review and editing training plan development and practice planning
• Performs recruiting functions at the direction of the head coach
• Works with the admissions office handling prospective students
• Communicates with prospective players coaches club coaches and families
• May assist with operational fiscal and administrative activities for the specific sports program
• Assists with administrative work within the Athletics Department or Student Affairs
• Attends training and professional development opportunities
• Completes other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor or designee that are consistent with the responsibilities of the position

Out of Season: (MidNovember to May)

• Prepares to coach for upcoming season including video review and editing training plan development professional development and practice planning
• Performs recruiting functions at the direction of the head coach
• Works with the admissions office handling prospective students
• Communicates with prospective players coaches club coaches and families
• Assists with administrative work within the Athletics Department or Student Affairs
• Attends training and professional development opportunities
• Completes other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor or designee that are consistent with the responsibilities of the position

Summer: (Memorial Day to midAugust)

• Travels to recruiting events
• Attends games and reviews talent
• Enters notes into recruiting database within 48 hours of the event

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelors degree required

Experience

• Experience playing or coaching the sport college level preferred.
• Experience and/or demonstrated success in supervising young adults and managing programs preferred.

Skills and Knowledge

• Commitment to equity and inclusion and serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse community.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships. Must be flexible collaborative and have a positive attitude.
• Ability to establish rapport quickly with students and their families while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Knowledgeable about the skills and tactics of the sport.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in basic data management systems Front Rush game film editing programs and basic computer applications (e.g. Word Excel PowerPoint).
• Willingness and ability to learn additional applications as needed.
• Ability and willingness to travel (by car air train or bus) domestically and internationally as needed.
• Ability and willingness to work weekends evenings and other nontraditional schedules.
• Personal commitment to excellence and the mission of a toptier small liberal arts college.

Benefits:

Bates College offers competitive salaries excellent benefits (health dental sick leave 24 days of vacation 2 personal days 13 paid holidays dependent care subsidy free parking access to library and athletic facilities & more) and a supportive collegial environment in a drug and smokefree workplace.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color national or ethnic origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression age disability genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students in the administration of its education policies and programs or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. All college faculty staff students contractors visitors and volunteers are responsible for understanding and complying with the NonDiscrimination Policy.

Inquiries concerning the colleges policies compliance with applicable laws statutes and regulations (such as Title VII Title IX and ADA/Section 504 and complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow Title IX Officeror via email at .

About Bates:

Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college attracting 2000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.

Since 1855 Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender race religion or national origin.

Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world. Bates engages the forces intellectual trends demographic changes and technology that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.

Bates has highly competitive admissions graduates over 90 percent of its entering students and more than half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates employs 200 faculty members and 550 staff.

The college is proud of deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community Maines secondlargest urban area with a population of approximately 65000. Bates is located on a beautiful 133acre traditional New England campus in Lewiston an emerging city with an entrepreneurial climate a lively arts scene and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland 140 miles north of Boston and 350 miles north of New York City.