Assistant Coach Baseball

Job Title: Assistant Baseball Coach

Department: Athletics

Reports To: Head Baseball Coach

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Code: E-1

Maryville College encourages all employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Questions may be directed to the Employee COVID-19 Coordinator and Director of Human Resources, Keni Lanagan, keni.lanagan@maryvillecollege.edu.

Summary: Assists the head baseball coach in carrying out all assigned and auxiliary duties of the baseball program, while serving as the primary hitting coach.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Primary hitting coach for the baseball team.
• Assists in the recruiting of all potential student athletes.
• Complies fully with NCAA, Collegiate Conference of the South, and Maryville College policies.
• Establishes good rapport and generates respect among students, campus colleagues, and the local community by conducting oneself in an ethical manner.
• Assists in the supervision, scheduling, and maintenance of facilities.
• Attends all practices, meetings, and contests.
• Assists in filing all reports relative to baseball, as assigned by the head coach.
• Assists in the selection, training and supervision of student assistants and managers.
• Assists in the organization and supervision of all off-campus trips.
• Maintains office hours as assigned by the head coach.
• Serve as a Game Manager for select home athletic events.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position may supervise student employment jobs, as necessary.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university. Former college baseball student-athlete playing experience is preferred. Two-three years of related baseball hitting coach experience and/or training.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

A valid Tennessee Driver’s license is required.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to walk and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.,

Required: All applicants must apply through the Maryville College Careers portal website on the page of the desired position.

Maryville College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For additional information about working at Maryville College, please visit our Careers at MC webpage.