Assistant Director Athletics for NCAA Compliance - Biddeford, United States - University of New England

Description

The Assistant Athletics Director will be responsible for the Athletic Departments Compliance (NCAA and Institutional) and Business.

This position will be a member of the Athletics Department leadership team and is expected to demonstrate a commitment to actively fostering a welcoming culture of inclusion and diversity, be an engaged member of the university community, show creativity, initiative, and willingness to participate, and exhibit leadership within the department and the profession and both on and off campus, participate in department promotions and publicity events, and attend department and campus functions as requested, to serve as supervisor at home contests and support home game operations as necessary, as well as other duties assigned by the Associate Director of Athletics for Communications and Operations or the Director of Athletics.

About the University of New England

UNE is Maine's largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings.

In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges.

We are the state's top provider of health professionals and home to Maine's only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.

UNE offers a generous comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

The package includes varied health and dental plans; a retirement plan that includes up to an 8% match; extensive paid leave including holidays, vacation, sick and personal time; and educational benefits.

Please visit the Human Resources Benefits site ) for additional information regarding UNE's fantastic benefits package.

Responsibilities

Compliance Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement athletics compliance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with institutional, NCAA, and conference regulations.
• Provide NCAA rules education and interpretation programs for administrators, coaches, support staff, student-athletes, booster groups, campus partners/constituents that promotes culture of compliance and institutional control.
• Coordinate investigations of known and/or alleged rules violations, keeps the Director of Athletics informed of all alleged and known violations, and handles all correspondence with the NCAA and affiliated conferences regarding rules violations and follow-up responses.
• Administer athletics team eligibility, continuing education meetings and manage all resulting paperwork.
• Ensure that all student-athletes (including transfer students) are eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics programs, including certifying the continuing eligibility of current student-athletes.
• Develop and implement systems to monitor recruiting visits paperwork, policies and procedures, and adherence to both NCAA and institutional policy.
• Facilitate and/or complete required NCAA reports and forms.

Business Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement systems to monitor camps and clinics and required paperwork.
• Develop and implement systems to process and monitor travel expense vouchers and receipts.
• Develop and implement systems to track and monitor sport fundraising accounts. Create reports as necessary.
• Coordinate the scheduling and key card coding requests of locker room facilities. Work collaboratively with others on the administrative team to meet multiple needs of both internal and external constituent needs. Manage the locker room name plates and team schedules.
• Implement and collaborate with colleagues to enhance and build department engagement and programming involving the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and Alumni constituent groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and/or related educational and/or work experience
• Must be willing to work nights and weekends
• Previous collegiate professional experience preferred
• This is an in-person position

EEO Statement Summary

Consistent with federal and state law and University policy, the University of New England is committed to the fundamental concept of equal opportunity for all of the members of the University community.

The University prohibits, and will not tolerate, discrimination in employment, the provision of academic services or in any other area of University life based on race, color, sex, physical or mental disability, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, ethnicity, genetic information, HIV status, or status as a veteran.

Prohibited bias factors should not motivate decisions regarding students, employees, applicants for admission, applicants for employment, contractors, volunteers or participants in and/or users of institutional programs, services, and activities.

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