Responsible for assisting head coach with recruiting and teaching a team of student-athletes the skills of their sport; mentoring the athletes in academic and personal character development; and administrative responsibilities as assigned by the head coach, all within a Christian university environment.

Job Responsibilities

1. Coaching:

• Serves as a representative of the University displaying courtesy, tact consideration, and discretion in all interactions with other members of the HBU community and with the public
• Assist head coach in planning and executing practice sessions
• Work with student-athletes in developing skills of basketball
• Assesses competitor performance
• Helps to formulate workout sessions and game plans
• Coordinates recruiting efforts which involves evaluating current and potential talent at high schools and junior colleges

2. Teaching:

• Mentors students on an individual basis and in groups in developing life-skills, character building activities, and modeling Christian values for students

3. Administrative:

• Operates within the rules as required by the conference and the NCAA
• Assists with the scheduling of opponents
• Arranges for equipment, uniforms and supplies to be available for team
• Plan and execute team travel with authority to commit expenditures up to departmental budget, subject to University purchasing guidelines.
• Organize official and unofficial visits
• Monitor academic progress of student-athletes and counsels with them about issues and progress relative to their coursework.
• Supervise team managers
• Assist in designing and monitoring strength and conditioning program
• Other duties as assigned

MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

Directly supervises student-athletes and student workers. The nature of responsibility is immediate supervision and management over individuals within the department, in addition to providing work leadership.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s Degree and one to two years prior coaching experience at the high school level, club level, or higher. College coaching experience preferred.