Assistant Soccer Teams Director

Steel Sports•Albuquerque, NM

About The Position

This role is a Director within the Sports Product Management - Team job family. The position involves participating with senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives, making final decisions on implementation, and ensuring operational effectiveness. The role cascades functional strategy and contributes to the development of organizational policies. The Director is accountable for actions that impact function or multiple department budgets. This role works on complex issues where problems are not clearly defined and where fundamental principles do not fully apply. The Director translates business segment strategy into functional plans and guides execution, participating in OpCo development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people, ensuring budgets and schedules meet OpCo requirements. The position contributes to the development of strategies of a function or multi-departments. Erroneous decisions will have a critical long-term (typically up to five years) impact on the overall success of the function or multi-departments. The Director interacts with senior management, executives, and/or major customers, frequently involving negotiating matters of significance to the organization and reconciling multiple stakeholder views to drive business results. This role directs the activities of a functional area or multiple integrated departments through lower management and leads teams to develop new methods and solve complex matters.

Requirements

Be responsible, flexible, hard-working, ethical, and committed to the mission and culture of Steel Sports.
Successfully complete the application procedure and pass a background check.
High school diploma or GED equivalent.
Prior soccer playing or coaching experience.
Minimum of 2-3 years experience working with school age children.
Commitment to a diverse and inclusive culture.
Work effectively with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions, and perceptions.
Have a strong understanding of and proficiency with computer technology.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Able to encounter challenges with a solution mindset and remain optimistic despite setbacks with program.
Understanding of and ability to apply principles of quality youth development and programming.
Has flexibility and adaptability in work style and in work environments.
Can manage a dynamic “work” schedule with other jobs, personal responsibilities, school, etc.
Able to meet deadlines and complete tasks/projects on-time.
Ability to interface well with all departments at all levels both internally and externally.
Ability to work with the appropriate sense of urgency and have a drive for results.
Highly self-motivated, persistent, dependable and independent.
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands.
Must have knowledge of computer software applications in word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software (MSWord, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, MS Outlook).

Nice To Haves

Additional Associates or bachelor’s degree in Sports Administration, Business Studies, or related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

Participate with senior management to establish strategic plans and objectives.
Make final decisions on implementation and ensure operational effectiveness.
Cascade functional strategy and contribute to the development of organizational policies.
Be accountable for actions that impact function or multiple department budgets.
Translate business segment strategy into functional plans and guide execution.
Participate in OpCo development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
Ensure budgets and schedules meet OpCo requirements.
Contribute to the development of strategies of a function or multi-departments.
Interact with senior management, executives, and/or major customers, frequently involving negotiating matters of significance to the organization.
Reconcile multiple stakeholder views to drive business results.
Direct the activities of a functional area or multiple integrated departments through lower management.
Lead team(s) to develop new methods and solve complex matters.