Play Performance is looking for an experienced and extremely motivated strength and conditioning coach to join our highly skilled high-performance team. The role will offer a format similar to that of a professional sports environment, working with athletes from amateur to professional level in both team and semi-private settings. The successful candidate will gain experience working with athletes from a wide variety of sports and will be required to effectively communicate and work in a team environment with our high-performance staff to deliver an athlete centred approach to improving performance, mitigating injury risk, and managing current injuries. The position offers a competitive renumeration base rate with opportunity for further bonuses.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Programming and modification of training interventions for individual athletes, groups, and teams from amateur to professional, and from a wide variety of sports to drive performance outcomes.
• Management of allocated group of athletes including consistent communication, programming, coaching, and upkeep of wellness and attendance.
• Coaching on the gym floor in private, semi-private and team environments (with potential to move to field coaching in various roles as well) - Minimum 12-15h per week (potential for increased hours based on performance)
• Performance testing using the latest sport science technology (training will be provided)
• Data analysis, reporting and communication of performance testing data (training will be provided)

About the Successful Candidate

• Accountable with great time management skills
• Outstanding work ethic
• Ability to manage and coach multiple athletes/team of athletes in a high-paced gym floor environment
• Effective communication skills (engaging, energetic, enthusiastic, vibrant, adaptive to the environment)
• Extremely driven and overachieving/motivated to do their best in every given opportunity.
• Desire to help grow and maximise the operation of the business through colaboration with our high-performance team and in turn create more opportunity for growth of their own career.
• Works well in team environment
• Flexible hours including mostly weekday evenings and Saturday mornings.

Requirements  

• Level 2 ASCA (or comparable certifications) and minimum 2 years experience coaching within sporting club environment, athlete performance training centre or high school program (preferably with athletes at an elite level).  
• Undergraduate degree in sport science/or similar (or working towards)
• Working With Childrens Check
• First Aid/CPR Certificate
• Exceptional Coaching Skills

Bonus Attributes

• Experience working within a high performance team setting and working with other high performance staff to meet organisational KPI’s
• Experience in sport science technology and processing such as Vald systems
• Experience with Microsoft Excel
• Experience with online programming software Teambuildr
• Qualifications in speed/sprint training/coaching

What We Offer

• Competitive renumeration (commensurate with level of skill and experience)
• Potential for role to expand into more senior positions as well as further responsibilities within the organisation
• Potential to expand the role into more hours and permanent role within the organisation
• Opportunities to work with sports teams in a high performance environment similar to professional sport
• Opportunities to work with and gain experience in programming, testing, and coaching athletes from a wide variety of sports and training environments.