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Senior Associate Athletic Director, Sport Administration

University of Delaware

University of Delaware

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Job No: 501096

Work Type: Staff

Location: Newark

Categories: Athletics, Full Time

Pay Grade: 32E

Context of the Job:

The Senior Associate Athletic Director (AD), Sport
Administration at the University of Delaware is a valued member
within the University and Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
and Campus and Community Recreation (DACCR), upholding and
embracing the departmental mission of ”Achieving Excellence
Together”.

Under the limited direction of the Deputy Athletic Director
(AD), Sport Administration and Student Success, the Senior
Associate AD, Sport Administration will be responsible for
collaborating with department leadership on all facets of sport
administration for UD Athletics’ 22 varsity athletics programs and
Spirit teams.

The Senior Associate AD will lead the Sport Administrator team,
Coaches and other Athletic Department leadership regarding the
design, establish and evaluate shared and sustainable visions,
plans and standards for all varsity programs. The focus of this
position will be to create and manage an environment conducive to
both academic and competitive success and the best possible
student-athlete experience. Driving a culture of analytics and
assessment to pursue continuous improvement in all responsible
areas. Leadership of sport administration will include helping to
enforce the rules and regulations in college athletics, especially
those designed to protect and champion for student-athletes.

Other responsibilities include developing and implementing
coaches learning and development programs, supervision and
evaluation of assigned coaches, supervision and evaluation of sport
administrators, regularly evaluating needs and resources of coaches
and sport programs, and ongoing assessment of success for varsity
programs in collaboration with Head Coaches, Sport Administrators
and DACCR Executive Team.

The Senior Associate AD is responsible for proactively building
and maintaining positive and collaborative working relationships
with colleagues across campus to enhance the Athletic Department
brand and the University of Delaware mission. In addition, this
position has extensive interactions outside of the University with
institutional representatives from conference offices and/or
visiting institutions, outside group representatives, parents,
alumni, fans, and the public.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Sport Administration

• Serves as a sport administrator for 2-3 varsity sports and as
an active member of the CARE team for assigned sports.

• Attend home events regularly, travel to away competitions on
occasion, and travel for all post-season competition/championships
for assigned sports.

Personnel

• Provide strategic insight and recommendations for sport
administrator assignments. Which includes but is not limited to
managing the professional development opportunities for current and
potential future sport administrators.

• Develop and maintain systems for documenting, tracking, and
evaluating coach and team performance; determine methods and seek
opportunities to implement proactive strategies to enhance
performance of coaches and/or teams.

• Partner with Internal operations and the Divisional Director,
Talent Management on salary and retention strategy review for
coaches.

• Partner with the Athletic Director, the specific sport
administrator, and the Divisional Director, Talent Management on
execution of strategy for head coach searches and onboarding.
Assist sport administrators on assistant coaching search
execution.

• Serves as a member of the sports programs celebration
committee, which is responsible for ensuring we are consistently
celebrating the success of all sports programs, coaches and
staff.

Operations

• Establish, implement and evaluate processes and procedures to
ensure suitable communication and execution of requests from
coaches/teams.

• Establish, implement and evaluate policies, procedures,
protocols, and/or practices to align with Athletic Department,
NCAA, and conference policies, procedures, protocols, and/or
practices as needed.

• Partner with Facilities, Operations and Event Management team
to provide recommendations regarding home game administration and
inclement weather practice schedules; assist with monitoring
adherence to standards.

• Responsible for the execution and department wide summary for
season ending pulse surveys for all sports programs, including the
exit interview process. The summary will be shared with the
FAR/FBA, University leadership and the DACCR Executive Team on an
annual basis.

• Responsible for the annual review and update of the Blue Hen
Expectations and sports program t

Location: Newark, DE

Posted: Aug. 19, 2024, 7:09 p.m.

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