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Head Football Coach/Assistant Professor of Kinesiology (Tenure Track)

Posting Number: F01060
Location: Diablo Valley College
Salary:

Description of Position:
Diablo Valley College inspires, educates, and empowers a diverse community of students to transform their lives and their communities. DVC Instructors close equity gaps by fostering success among all students. To help further this work, Diablo Valley College seeks a tenure-track Head Football Coach/Assistant Kinesiology Professor to start in Fall 2024.

We are looking for a colleague who will demonstrate discipline expertise and show sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic backgrounds and abilities of community college students.

We are looking for instructors who share a strong commitment to social and racial justice and who use or are inspired to use anti-racist pedagogies that close equity gaps by recognizing, understanding, and respecting the perspectives of all students.

We strongly encourage those with historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities to apply, including people of color, non-binary and transgender individuals, women, and Indigenous people.

The successful candidate is an accomplished football coach with collaborative college teaching experience in the Kinesiology discipline and possesses a background of teaching in a variety of modalities. The successful candidate will be responsible for all the duties and responsibilities required of head football coaches at a community college, which can be found in the duties and responsibility section of the job announcement. These include but are not limited to recruiting student athletes and monitoring their academic progress, organizing and scheduling practices and games, coordinating year-round strength and conditioning programs, managing budgets, and teaching kinesiology courses.



Inquiries:
For inquiries please contact the Executive Assistant to the President, Marta Gillen at: mgillen@dvc.edu.

Position Status: Tenure- Track
EEO Job Category: Faculty & Other Instructional Staff
Employee Group: Full-Time Faculty
Department: D3900-Physical Education

Duties and Responsibilities:
In addition to contractual duties, all full-time faculty are expected to participate actively in their disciplines, department activities, and the general intellectual life and governance of the college. The college offers day, evening, on-line and weekend classes, and faculty may be required to teach in/during any of these modalities and time frames.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Supervising student-athletes.
2. Organizing practices.
3. Hiring and supervising assistant coaches.
4. Scheduling games.
5. Creating, managing, and implementing year-round strength and conditioning programs.
6. Recruiting incoming student athletes to maintain a competitive intercollegiate athletic program(s).
7. Coordinating student academic success, retention, and transfer, which includes:

a. preparing student athletes to transition to the 4-year intercollegiate level with the academic and athletic tools for success.
b. monitoring student academic progress for transfer and work with the academic support coordinator.

8. Overseeing and managing football operational budgets, fundraising activities, and the athletic program in general.
9. Representing Diablo Valley College by:

a. attending CCCAA Sport Coaches Association and NCFA conference meetings.
b. complying with California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Rules and Regulations.
c. understanding both current CCCAA and NCAA eligibility and transfer rules/regulations.

10. Teaching a variety of kinesiology activity/lecture courses.
11. Create pedagogy for a variety of kinesiology activity/lecture courses.
12. Participate in an Athletic Learning Community and work closely with the ASC student center staff on retention and student success initiatives.
13. Advancing equitable student learning through dedicated, exemplary instruction in accordance
with established course outlines.
14. Participating in the assessment of student learning outcomes for courses and programs; developing and implementing student learning outcomes assessment processes for courses and programs.
15. Collaborating in the development and revision of curriculum and in program review.
16. Engaging in department program improvement initiatives.
17. Participating in department, division, and college committees.
18. Participating in professional development activities, both departmental and college wide.
19. Maintaining current knowledge in the subject matter area and effective teaching/ learning strategies.
20. Maintaining appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics.
21. Informing students of course requirements, evaluation procedures and attendance requirements.
22. Preparing and grading class assignments and examinations and informing students of their academic progress.
23. Maintaining attendance, scholastic, and personnel records and submitting them according to published deadlines.
24. Posting and holding sufficient and regular office hours in accordance with prevailing policy.
25. Participating in College’s shared governance processes. performing other duties as required by contract, collective bargaining agreement, and general institutional needs.
26. Performing other duties as required by contract, collective bargaining agreement, and general institutional needs

Minimum Qualification-Education/Experience:
Understanding of and sensitivity to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, sexual orientation and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, staff, and faculty.

The applicant must possess one of the following qualifications (earned degrees must be from an accredited college/university):

• Master’s degree in kinesiology, physical education, exercise science, education with an emphasis in physical education, kinesiology, physiology of exercise or adaptive physical education
• OR Bachelor’s degree in any of the above AND Master’s degree in any life science, dance, physiology, health education, recreation administration or physical therapy
• OR the equivalent

If you do not possess the EXACT minimum qualifications (i.e., you do not possess the EXACT degree title listed) and believe that you meet the minimum qualifications, fill out the equivalency petition form in the document section of the online application. For example, if your degree is in “coaching” or “sports management” you must fill out an equivalency. If you are unsure that you meet the minimum qualifications, please fill out the equivalency petition. The equivalency form can be downloaded here

Desirable Qualifications:
Highly qualified candidates will possess knowledge, skills, and experience that address the desirable qualifications below.

Responses to the supplemental questions below allow the applicant to describe how they meet these qualifications.

1. Collaborative and student-centered individual who is committed to the district, college, and department missions with experience and skill in addressing educational inequities.
2. Experience teaching kinesiology activity and/or lecture courses at the college level.
3. Experience with and knowledge of diverse learning styles and a variety of academic goals.
4. Experience coaching football at an elite level.
5. Experience with preparing student-athletes to transition to an intercollegiate and/or elite level with the academic and athletic skills for success.
6. Experience developing strength and conditioning programs.
7. Experience and/or interest in coordinating learning communities.

Job Open Date: 11/27/2023
Job Close Date: 1/29/2024
Open Until Filled: No
Employment Begins: August 2024
# of Months: 10

To apply, visit: https://www.4cdcareers.net/postings/10213

The Contra Costa Community College District does not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, sex, or sexual orientation. This prohibition against unlawful discrimination extends to any person who is perceived to have any of the above characteristics or who is associated with someone who has, or who is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

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