What are the responsibilities and job description for the eSports Coach position at Minnesota State?
Job Title: eSports Coach
Institution: Ridgewater College
Classification Title: Community College Faculty
Bargaining Unit / Union: 210: Minnesota State College Faculty
City: Hutchinson RIDG - Willmar Campus
FLSA: Job Exempt
Full Time / Part Time: Part time
Employment Condition: Unclassified - Limited Academic (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement practice plans and game strategies.
- Identify, evaluate, and communicate with potential student-athletes.
- Manage budgets and fundraising activities to support the program.
- Mentor student-athletes in individual and team dynamics, team rules, leadership development, and commitment to safety and well-being.
- Monitor satisfactory academic progress of student-athletes.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in physical education, exercise science, or kinesiology, or a Master's degree in any field with 18 graduate semester credits in physical education, exercise science, or kinesiology.
- Two or more years of coaching experience.
- Knowledge of eSports and experience in the field.
- Understanding of MCAC and NJCCA rules and regulations.
- Prior experience with recruiting student-athletes.
- Strong interpersonal skills and effective communication both orally and in writing.
- Organizational skills, including basic accounting practices.
Work Schedule: Varies, flexible to fit the schedule of the coach and students.
Benefits: At Minnesota State, we offer a great benefits package, including paid Holidays, Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Parental Leave, low-cost medical and dental insurance, a Pension Plan, retirement plans, pre-tax medical and dental expense accounts, employer-paid life insurance, short and long-term disability, professional development, and a tuition waiver program for employees and their dependents.
Guiding Principles:
- Enterprising: We are future-focused and change-oriented, developing creative solutions to challenges that maximize our institutional, system, and local resources.
- Empowerment: We develop and empower employees to make decisions to best serve students and stakeholders.
- Excellence: We strive to exceed expectations in all that we do.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We seek to understand and appreciate the needs and experiences of every individual and actively work to provide genuine opportunities for everyone to succeed and participate in college activities and processes.
- Trust and Respect: We are committed to developing a culture based on processes and behavior that create trust and respect among all stakeholders.
- Collaboration: We connect and work together to achieve common goals while respecting needs and interests of stakeholders.
- Curiosity and Creativity: We constantly strive to understand, learn, change, and improve.
- Accountability: As individuals and groups, we willingly accept and take ownership of our successes and failures.
Equal Employment Opportunity: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is an Equal Opportunity employer/educator committed to the principles of diversity. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their race, sex, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or membership in a local commission as defined by law.
