Head Women's Flag Football Coach

Head Women's Flag Football Coach

Posting Category: E

About UIS: Located in the state capital, the University of Illinois Springfield is one of three members of the University of Illinois system. The University serves more than 4,000 students in 44 graduate and 56 undergraduate programs. You are encouraged to visit the university web page at http://www.uis.edu.

Application deadline: Open until filled

Minimum Starting Salary: $50,000 annually

Summary:
University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is seeking an experienced individual to lead our Women's Flag Football program as the head coach. The successful head coach must be able to articulate a vision to build the program and develop it to compete for championships while ensuring academic achievement. The coach teaches, develops, manages, implements, and advances the Women's Flag Football program within the philosophy, objectives, policies, and guidelines of NCAA Division II, the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), and Department of Athletics at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS). The Head Women's Flag Football Coach reports to the Director of Athletics.

Duties & Responsibilities:

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  Teach and instruct advanced level skills, techniques, and game strategies inherent in the highest level of competitive play; develop UIS women’s flag football student-athletes to successful competitive achievements.

• Recruit highly successful women’s flag football student-athletes who are both physically and academically talented, who represent UIS and Department of Athletics with good character, and who strive to graduate from UIS.

• Responsible for a strategic vision for success and administration of the UIS women’s flag football program including budgeting, strategic planning, organizing, and reconciling flag football accounts to ensure expenditures compliant with budget.

• Mentor women's flag football student-athletes on and off the field and monitor academic performance and progress, teaching student-athletes skills for academic and life-long learning.

• Accountable for compliance with all NCAA Division II and Great Lakes Valley Conference rules; including submission of all compliance forms, adherence to all compliance policies and procedures, and attendance of mandatory NCAA rules education sessions. Instruct UIS women's flag football assistant coaching staff and women's flag football student-athletes on applicable NCAA compliance education.

• Responsible for scheduling, organizing, and conducting practices and competitions, including team travel.

• Identify, manage, mentor, and over ethical and talented UIS women’s flag football assistant coaching staff.

• Collaborate with athletic training staff, academic support personnel, strength and conditioning, compliance staff, and other campus personnel to enhance and support UIS women’s flag football student-athletes.

• Responsible for fundraising, marketing, promotion, and alumni and community engagement of UIS women’s flag football and Department of Athletics at UIS.

• Coordinate flag football campus/clinics to increase local and regional exposure of UIS and UIS flag football.

• Attend GLVC, UIS, and Department of Athletics meetings as scheduled; hold office hours on campus in The Recreation and Athletic Center, and complete required NCAA and UIS training.

• Perform other related duties as assigned to support the department’s strategic goals and on-going initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required. Demonstrated coaching experience and proven ability to recruit, develop, and mentor student-athletes.

Preferred Qualifications:
Preferences will be given to candidates with advanced degrees, demonstrated experience coaching flag football, an understanding of NCAA Division II regulations, a tenure of successful collegiate coaching with a proven record of recruiting talented and academically qualified student-athletes.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Demonstrated ability in skill instruction, practice and game plan development, academic monitoring and development of student-athletes, fundraising and public relations
General administrative skills including budgeting and scheduling
Strong leadership skills
Knowledge and commitment to NCAA DII rules compliance
Strong ethical integrity
Strong knowledge of flag football rules, strategies, and techniques.
Strong communication skills, as well as strong organizational and administrative abilities.

Employment Policies and other information:

UIS is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive campus community. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

The University of Illinois may conduct background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer of employment. Background checks will be performed in compliance with state and federal law.

The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current or former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person.

UIS employment in this role is not covered by Social Security, and instead, is covered by the State University Retirement System.

• You will not pay Social Security taxes and your earning will not be on your Social Security Record. (Your record will, however, show your Medicare wages.
• Your pension from the State Universities Retirement System may affect the amount of your:

Applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply and may request a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (2008) to complete the application and/or interview process. Requests may be submitted by contacting UIS HR at hremployment@uis.edu or call 217-206-6652.

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