Head Coach, Women’s Field Hockey

  • Full-time

Job Description

Summary:

Queens is excited to announce the launch of its Field Hockey program and seeks an experienced, visionary head coach to lead the team.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:

  • Plan, organize and direct all activities involved with Queens’ NCAA Division II intercollegiate Field Hockey program

  • Provide instruction and development for individual and team improvement, teach overall team and individual player strategies, analyze athlete performance, prepare student-athletes for the highest possible levels of competition

  • Recruit student-athletes within guidelines of the NCAA regulations and Queens’ academic admissions standards

  • Adhere to all NCAA rules and regulations for the sport

  • Monitor student-athlete academic performance to ensure academic success and compliance with policies

  • Coordinate activities for all home and away meets including team travel plan, lodging and equipment inventory Oversee the implementation of strength and conditioning programs for student-athletes

  • Coordinate transportation of student-athletes to competitions and off campus events

  • Evaluate and purchase equipment as necessary

  • Serve as primary budget manager for program operations

  • Participate in departmental meetings and activities including serving on committees and advisory board commitments

  • Provide informal support to student-athletes in areas of academic and personal matters

  • Participate in university fundraising and public relations activities

  • Participate in summer sport camps

  • Support staff to event operations on a regular basis

  • Adhere to the highest standards of student-athlete welfare

 




 

 


Non-Essential Duties

  • Other duties may be assigned as needed


Qualifications

Experience, Knowledge and Skills Required

  • Collegiate Field Hockey and/or coaching experience and ability to transfer the knowledge and skills gained to student athletes

  • Experience building a sports program from the beginning is preferred

  • Knowledge of conference and NCAA rules and regulations

  • 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

  • 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.

Additional Information

  • 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 travel (by car, air, bus or other modes as appropriate; overnight stays) with the team to coach the team at away games, as well as travel for to achieve recruiting goals.

    • Work in office environment and outdoors, involving contact with faculty, staff, students, parents, service providers and vendors.

    • Work has deadlines, multiple interruptions, high volume and may be stressful at times.

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-educational, Presbyterian-affiliated comprehensive university located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is consistently ranked in the top tier of Southern Regional Masters Universities. The university has more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students in programs offered by the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the James L. Knight School of Communication, the Wayland H. Cato Jr. School of Education, the Andrew Blair College of Health and the Presbyterian School of Nursing, and Hayworth School of Graduate and Continuing Education. Additional information about Queens University of Charlotte may be found at www.queens.edu/Queens-Overview.


Queens offers medical (PPO or a high deductible option with Health Savings Account), dental and vision insurance, domestic partner benefits, defined contribution retirement plan and supplemental retirement plan, paid holidays, tuition remission, Queens-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care), long-term disability leave, FMLA leave, reduced cost meals at Morrison Dining Hall, and employee assistance program (EAP).


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