Women's Hockey Head Coach

Women’s Hockey Head Coach

Athletics

Competition #139-23/24

Brandon, Manitoba

Salary: Honorarium

Assiniboine Community College has been providing exceptional learning experiences that have been transforming lives and strengthening Manitoba through applied education and research for more than 60 years.

The women’s hockey team plays in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division 2 having won the national title in 2019 and 2022. The team plays approximately a 20-game season. Games are primarily against other ACHA teams in Canada and the northern United States, during the weekends.

Be Passionate and Take Initiative with these Responsibilities:

• Passionate about working with student athletes, coaching, and hockey.
• Evaluating performance and providing suitable feedback comes and the ability to balance constructive criticism with positive and motivating comments.
• Able to assess strengths and weaknesses in a participant’s performance, while identifying areas for further development.
• Positive personality and are able to encourage participants to gain and develop skills, knowledge, and techniques, both on and off the field.
• Helps the team and individual players set goals and work towards achieving these goals.
• Develop and run try-outs, plan and effectively run 2-3 practices per week, develop and communicate game plans, and be able to take advantage of ‘coaching moments’ during games and practices.
• Engaging personality to be able to recruit players to the team.

Be able to deliver results by having:

• Maintain open communication with the Athletics Department
• Ensue adherence to all league requirements, deadlines, and player eligibility.
• Work with the Athletic Department to ensure all athletes understand the academic requirements and adhere to them.
• You will have a strong understanding of hockey, including the skills and strategies, and be able to maintain positive coaching habits.
• Travel including on some weekends is required, travel costs (meals, transportation, and accommodation) are provided.

Assiniboine Community College is committed to ensuring that its policies, practices, and systems are free of barriers, emphasize the value of diversity, and promote full participation to ensure dignity, respect, and equal access for all employees. A request for an accommodation or to request this document in an alternative format, can be made at any point during the recruitment process by contacting 204.725.8729 or careers@assiniboine.net.

Assiniboine welcomes applications from all qualified candidates who are legally entitled to work in Canada, including Indigenous peoples, persons of all abilities, members of visible minorities, all genders and sexual orientations, and all other groups protected by the Human Rights Code.

Assiniboine’s campuses are located on the traditional territories of Treaty No. 1 and Treaty No. 2, and the shared traditional lands of Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Dene and Anishinabek/Ojibwe peoples, and the homeland of the Red River Métis Nation.

If you are interested in this career opportunity, please email your resume and cover letter with reference to Competition #139-23/24 to careers@assiniboine.net.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

Please contact careers@assiniboine.net to request this document in an alternative format if necessary.