Sports Academy Specialist - Sanford Sports Baseball Academy

Sanford Health•Bismarck, ND

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. This role involves working with advanced baseball performance technology, including Rapsodo, Blast Motion, and Driveline Plus, to enhance athlete training and performance. The position offers strong autonomy in coaching and programming, allowing staff to implement their expertise while helping grow the academy’s baseball programming in the region. It also provides competitive compensation and support for continuing education, and the opportunity to collaborate within the Sanford Sports system with sports performance, sports medicine, and other athlete development professionals. The specialist will play a key role in developing athletes of all ages and skill levels through camps, clinics, lessons, and academy programming.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required. In lieu of degree, may consider six years applicable work experience.
Minimum of two years skills training and/or coaching experience.

Nice To Haves

Work with advanced baseball performance technology including Rapsodo, Blast Motion, Driveline Plus, and other high-level player development tools.
Strong autonomy in coaching and programming.
Competitive compensation and support for continuing education.
Opportunity to work within the Sanford Sports system, collaborating with sports performance, sports medicine, and other athlete development professionals.
Play a key role in developing athletes of all ages and skill levels through camps, clinics, lessons, and academy programming.

Responsibilities

Responsible for all clinic and academy activities specific to designated sporting specialty.
Manage the daily activities of all sporting skill development, scheduling of facilities and court/field time.
Instruction and preparation of curriculum for skill training and successful growth of all aspects of the academy.
Oversee all levels of skill development and must be well-versed in all phases of teaching specific designated sporting skills.
Possess strong administrative skills to ensure the teaching of established program objectives consistently throughout the academy.
Effectively schedule practices, workouts, clinics, camps and tournaments.
Communicate effectively with parents, athletes and Sanford Sports administration.
Cover training hours at any time of day, which could include weekends and holidays.
Other duties as assigned.