Strength and Conditioning Coach: High Performance

Duties/Pligte **Integrated Medicine and Science**: - Coordinating the annual medical screenings of all student-athletes in the identified HP Sport squads; - Supporting the empowerment of Maties Sport coaches, teams and student-athletes to optimise the use of evidence-based interventions that ensures the enhancement of athletic performance; - Supporting the Maties Sport Injury Clinic and injury management programme through injury reporting, and attending the Maties Sport Injury programme management meetings; - Coordinating the annual Drug Free Sport talk delivered by the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS); - Contributing to the overall functioning of the Maties Sport HP Unit Integrated Medicine and Science programme and its future by accepting responsibilities for Unit sustainability, and adhering to a code of high-performance ethics. **Performance Enhancement**: - Designing, supporting and managing the annual periodisation plans for gymnasium-based and field-based strength and conditioning interventions for HP sport codes within the HP Unit's central philosophy; - Designing, implementing, supporting and managing performance enhancement strategies throughout the annual performance plan and at competitions; - Designing, delivering, supporting and managing HP Sport Code-specific prehabilitation programmes (team and individual); - Designing, delivering, supporting and managing HP Sport Code-specific strength programmes (team and individual) across a range of fundamental movement patterns and bio-motor abilities; - Designing, delivering, supporting and managing HP Sport Code-specific metabolic and bio-motor ability conditioning programmes (team and individual); - Leading and coordinating the implementation of sport technology-based vision and decision training, performance analysis, performance measuring and training load monitoring services to inform decisions regarding training and competitions of HP Sport Codes - team and individual support programmes; - Providing accurate and informative written and verbal reports to coaches, managers and the HP Unit; - Managing, implementing, providing oversight, and delivering on talent development pathway programmes. **Empowerment**: - Understanding and knowledge of the HP Sport Codes' "big picture" - provincial, national, federations, etc; - Performance managing the strength and conditioning programme component of the IMAS Accelerated Personal Development Plan of identified student-athletes; - Collaborating with the Centre for Sport Leadership to support student-athletes utilising all services of the HP Unit in the delivery of community impact projects or any other strategic events; - Supporting the HP Unit's recruitment, training, and managing of strength and conditioning interns / assistants to support strength and conditioning services of the Maties Sport HP Programme. **Sport Technology**: - Contributing to the academic footprint of Maties Sport by supporting research projects within the HP Unit's IMAS programme and the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM); - Maintaining all sport technology equipment in working order and reporting any technological faults/issues to the Senior Manager: High Performance: Maties Sport; - Using technology to inform decisions about physical training programmes, as well as the management of player load and fatigue. **Management: Maties Gymnasium High Performance Centre**: - Pro-actively liaising with Maties Sport club managers, coaches, and student-athletes, and communicating all Maties Gymnasium-related processes and requirements with regards to bursary gymnasium memberships and HP squads; - Ensuring that the HP booking schedule is completed and always up-to-date as per the SOP; - Collaborating in terms of the management of the HP training area of the Maties Gymnasium student-athlete training facility to optimise the use thereof by all Maties Sport HP teams and individual student-athletes. Job Requirements/Pos Vereistes - At least a recognised postgraduate sport science / biokinetics degree with specialisation in strength and conditioning; - The ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of an integrated medicine and science support team; - At least four years' experience of strength and conditioning in a high-performance environment; - Technical proficiency and practical working experience of gathering data and translating the results generated by technology to high performance teams and athletes; - The ability to accurately measure and monitor essential physical components with student-athletes; - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; - Effective leadership in the management of people; - Excellent computer skills with regard to MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, OneDrive and Outlook; - Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively; - The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, as well as independently; - The ability to tak