Mohave Community College Hiring for Women’s Soccer Head Coach at Bullhead City, AZ Full Time

Salary: $50,250.00 – $56,280.00 Annually

Location: Bullhead City, AZ

Job Number: 13-01308

Department: Student Life and Community Engagement

Opening Date: 12/07/2023

About MCC
Located about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, Mohave Community College is a comprehensive community college serving Mohave County in the northwest portion of the State of Arizona and its neighboring communities in California, Nevada, and Utah. With over 13,000 students each year on campuses in Kingman, Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City, and Colorado City, and an extensive online education program, MCC’s mission is to serve our communities, empowering students to succeed through innovative pathways and quality education

Description

Mohave Community College is seeking an enthusiastic, energetic individual to lead our first ever women’s soccer team.

See more details here. 

What we’ll love about you: 

• Your record of excellence in leadership, working with others in the spirit of partnership, transparency and care, to inspire action. 
• Your unwavering commitment to the academic, emotional, and social development of all students. 
• Your ability to plan for change in ways that ensure broad buy-in and action that, in turn, significantly improves student success. 
• Your ability to build long-lasting, engaged, and collaborative relationships, paving the way for ongoing student success.
• Your strong ethical orientation and ability to make discerning, evidence-based decisions. 
• Your ability to build effective and cohesive teams with a common commitment to and focus on student success.

What you’ll love about us: 

• We create the future by cultivating relentless curiosity in our students and each other to unlock new opportunities and break barriers. We take risks, adapt to oncoming challenges and opportunities, and engineer new ideas as we learn together from our mistakes and successes.  
• We engage fearlessly, bringing passion and energy to our work by dreaming big, being bold, having fun, and fostering a caring environment. Celebrating each other and our results with enthusiasm makes our work meaningful and exciting. 
• We build together. Our individual differences and backgrounds strengthen our teams, where we seek input and ensure every voice is heard. We amplify our impact when we empower each other to take ownership and work together toward common vision. 
• We live authentically, being our best when we share information openly, create clarity, invite stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and communicate with utmost respect. 
• We care! We care about our students, our communities and each other, finding ways to actively engage and invest in the success of those we serve.

Typical Duties

Head Coach Functions:

• Responsible for planning and conducting fall in-season and spring off-season practices and competitions.
• Actively develop recruitment strategies in accordance with NJCAA bylaws, identify students to recruit and cultivate an expansive recruiting network. Effectively communicate with prospective student athletes by mail, phone, e-mail and social media as compliant with NJCAA rules. Participate in on-campus and off-campus recruitment efforts.
• Oversee overall management of program. Establish and arrange practice and competition schedules; ensure appropriate travel arrangements have been made. Adherence to assigned program budget. Responsible for the distribution and recovery of all equipment and uniforms.
• Engage in various projects and related programs and activities promoting Soccer and the Athletics Department. This includes conducting soccer camps and clinics throughout Mohave County.
• Participate in public relation opportunities with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and news media.
• Provide student-athletes with instruction regarding physical health and safety and promote student-athlete safety and well-being.
• Monitor the academic progress of student-athletes and ensure compliance with NJCAA, ACCAC and Mohave Community College regulations; provide council to student-athletes regarding goals, academic success and other personal and sport related issues.
• Seek out opportunities to serve on conference sport committees.
• Carry out other duties as assigned by supervisor(s), including participate in college committees and represent college/soccer program in community events and civic organization meetings.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor?s degree required. Master?s degree in a discipline taught at the College required if seeking to be eligible for adjunct faculty positions outside of coaching.
• Superior knowledge and compliance of all National Junior College Athletic Association rules and regulations.
• Minimum of two years of successful soccer coaching experience required. Collegiate coaching experience preferred.
• Current CPR/AED certification or ability to obtain upon hire.
• Valid AZ driver?s license or ability to obtain upon hire.

Core Competencies:

• Coaching and Developing Skills -?Ability to encourage and guide employees in order to make their performance more effective and to enhance their self-perception and problem solving skills. Plan and support the development of individual’s skills and abilities so that they can fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities more effectively.
• Leadership -?Ability to provide direction and guidance to a group of people and to encourage cooperation between team members in order to attain an objective. ? Involve team members in solving problems and making decisions and inspire others to follow the lead. Obtain input from others, ? ? ? facilitate change, and inspire confidence and optimism through a clear vision?
• Teamwork – Ability to engage in cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interest of a common cause. Encourage cooperation, collaboration and partnerships.
• Relationship Building -?Ability to build relationships based on mutual trust and respect. Maintain self-awareness of own emotions and behaviors, and awareness of?another’s emotions and behaviors, when interacting with them.
• Effective Communications -?Conveys clear and timely messages that positively influence the thoughts and actions of others. Effectively expresses ideas and information both in speaking and writing that is appropriate to the complexity of the topic and the knowledge and understanding of the audience.
• Decision-Making & Judgement -?Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities. Uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions, taking sound action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Tact and Diplomacy -?Ability to diplomatically handle challenging or tense interpersonal situations. Thoughtfully intervene in conflicts grievances, confrontations, or disagreements in a constructive manner to minimize negative personal impact, improve communication, diffuse tension, and resolve problems.
• Ethics and Integrity – Ability to operate in an ethical and trustworthy manner. Respects and maintains confidentiality. Avoid situations and actions considered inappropriate or which present a conflict of interest. Earn the trust, respect and confidence of employees through consistent honesty, forthrightness and professionalism in all interactions.
• Diversity and Inclusiveness -? Ability to foster a healthy, productive, ethical, and fair campus community in which people of all backgrounds and cultures feel included, welcome and valued. Helps create a work environment that embraces and appreciates diversity. Seeks different points of view and leverages diverse perspectives in group processes and decision-making.
• Innovation & Creative Thinking – Ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns and relationships and to create meaningful new strategies, programs, services, and markets. Visualizes potential problems and solutions without needing tangible, “real life” examples.

Application Instructions

It is the responsibility of each applicant to have all the following documents on file in the Human Resources office by the deadline date in order to continue in the application process for this position. Application materials will not be returned.

1. A complete online employment application form. Please do not state ‘see resume’ on any part of the application. Blank spaces may be cause for rejection of the application.
2. Cover letter addressing the criteria listed in the job announcement and your qualifications for this position.
3. Resume or curriculum vitae. Optional, but encouraged.
4. Transcripts of all college work. (Unofficial transcripts or photocopies will be accepted to establish the application file. Official transcripts will be required if the candidate is offered the position.)

Important Notes: 

• If any of the above listed materials are missing or incomplete, the application will not be considered.
• Items 2-4 may either be attached electronically to the application or mailed to the address below (position number must be included on all documents):

Mohave Community College
 Human Resources
 1971 Jagerson Avenue
 Kingman, AZ 86409