Performance Coach

Pivot Physical Therapy • Troy, PA

1d • $11 - $14

About The Position

The Performance Coach promotes Athletico’s Performance brand through training, communication, and customer service. The role emphasizes safety, intensity, variation, individualized programming, sport- and team-specific training, and assessment-based programs.

The coach provides strength, speed, agility, and conditioning programs to athletes and fitness enthusiasts across ages and ability levels. Programming may include sports performance, team training, personal training, semi-private training, and small-group functional training. The coach also contributes to camps, clinics, off-site training, adult fitness, boot camps, and sports- or individual-specific programs; performs assessments and evaluations; and records workouts and client interactions in Mind Body Online.

The position involves communicating and building working relationships with clients, coaches, parents, team officials, administration, marketing, physical therapy staff, and other coaches. The coach helps maintain a professional, safe, fun, clean, and orderly training environment, participates in community events, follows up with prospects, and informs directors of scheduling needs while maintaining professional reliability.

Requirements

• Knowledge of sports performance training, speed development, movement mechanics, assessment, evaluation, and injury prevention.
• Commitment to continued education and furthering experience and abilities in sports performance.
• A training philosophy that emphasizes functional, scientific, and movement-based training.
• Ability to integrate sports medicine, clinical knowledge, assessment, and/or clinical recommendations into performance training.
• Self-motivation, high integrity, good business acumen, and ability to interact with coworkers, clients, and professionals.
• Ability to be inspiring, creative, and a team player.
• Ability to integrate and maintain an athletic mentality and environment.
• Ability to relate positively with customers and employees and develop positive relationships.
• Ability to communicate thoughts and information effectively and concisely, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to complete goals and activities within established or tight time frames.
• Demonstrate a fit image representing commitment to an active, healthy lifestyle.
• Background in fitness, strength and conditioning training, and/or coaching.
• Experience working with athletes and/or fitness clients.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods.
• Ability to reach, bend, stoop, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to grasp and hold up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to hear and understand normal voice-level communication in person or by telephone.
• Ability to speak clearly and understandably.
• Basic vision, corrected.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in exercise science or a related field, such as health promotion, kinesiology, or sports medicine (listed as preferred).
• NCCA-accredited personal training or strength and conditioning certification (listed as preferred), including NSCA-CSCS, ACSM-CPT or HFS, NASM-CPT, or ACE-CPT.
• High level of competitive athletic experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide strength, speed, agility, and conditioning programs for athletes and fitness enthusiasts of all ages and levels, including sports performance, team training, personal, semi-private, and small-group functional training.
• Implement new training methods, programs, and protocols.
• Develop and conduct camps, clinics, and off-site training.
• Conduct performance assessments and evaluations.
• Assist in developing and presenting adult fitness and boot-camp programs.
• Assist in developing sports- and individual-specific performance programs.
• Track workouts and client interactions in the Mind Body Online program.
• Participate in community events that promote performance training and community goodwill.
• Establish working relationships with administration, marketing, physical therapy, and other coaches.
• Communicate effectively with clients, including athletes, coaches, parents, and team officials, and provide timely follow-up.
• Inform directors of scheduling needs and demonstrate professional reliability.
• Create a professional, safe, and fun environment.
• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of the facility and equipment.
• Conduct follow-up calls to prospects.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription coverage, dental, and vision; eligibility begins on the first day of employment.
• Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account.
• Progyny Fertility Benefit.
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• Long-term disability buy-up option.
• Company-paid maternity and parental leave.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• KinderCare discount.
• Legal and credit monitoring.
• Student loan repayment program for eligible clinicians only.
• PTO, with accrual starting immediately upon hire.
• Six major holidays off plus two floating holidays yearly.
• Employee physical therapy and occupational therapy benefits.
• Bereavement time off and resources.
• Pre-tax commuter transit and parking benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with per-pay company match.
• SoFi financial wellness tools and loan resources.
• HUSK fitness resources and gym discounts.
• Home, auto, and pet insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee discount program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time