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Job SummaryMarine Corps Community Services (MCCS) is looking for the best and brightest to join our Team! MCCS is a comprehensive program that supports and enhances the quality of life for Marines, their families, and others in the Marine Corps Community. We offer a team oriented environment comprised of military personnel, civilian employees, contractors and volunteers who keep the organization functioning smoothly and effectively.
QualificationsMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Human Performance, Exercise/Sport Science, Physical Education, Sport and Performance Psychology. 2. CSCS certification through the NSCA or SCCC certification through the CSCCa must be provided at the time of application. 3. Academic level knowledge of exercise and sport physiology, strength and conditioning, human performance, kinesiology, physical education or a related field of concepts, principles and practices of tactical strength and conditioning, and the unit readiness planning process to establish and maintain tactical fitness of individual Marines and Marine units. 4. Knowledge of strength and conditioning principles and the ability to apply them in a higher performance setting such as the military, first-responder, high school, and collegiate setting. 5. Demonstrate the ability to Design and deliver strength and conditioning programs and standardized education for Marines and families with an emphasis on prevention across all fitness domains. Ensures that all programming is in adherence to professional guidelines, policies, regulations, and law. 6. Experience providing strength and conditioning for high school, college, professional, military units, or first responders and the ability to apply and follow principles of strength conditioning: overload, progression, specificity, variation and reversibility in programs designed for high school, collegiate, or military and first responder environments. 7. Demonstrates experience writing, coaching, modifying, and supporting strength and conditioning workouts for large team/groups (50-100 athletes) to include pre- and post- performance testing. 8. Demonstrates skill to coordinate strength and conditioning training based upon the needs of sports coaching staff or unit leadership to best align with in-season, out of season competition and/or military deployment cycles. 9. Demonstrates skill and ability to teach, demonstrate and evaluate warm-ups, speed, agility, quickness, strength, power, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, injury prevention, correctives, and recovery components of a comprehensive performance program. 10. Demonstrates ability to counsel and recommend training guidelines and expertise to Marines and authorized patrons as necessary and ability to design periodized general physical preparation programs, or sport specific programs as needed for other authorized users such as family members and contribute to a library of GPP programming as needed for Marines, families and authorized users. Articulates industry level knowledge on the various supporting elements within an athletic setting such as athletic trainers, applied mental skills consultants, dietitians, and sleep health coaches. 11. Demonstrates knowledge of the application of strength and conditioning coaching in support of a larger organizational component above a team such as an athletic department, military unit, or other sports and athletic organization. 12. Has the knowledge and ability to refer participants to a medical provider or other services as necessary when evaluations or assessments prove contraindicative of exercise. 13. Demonstrates ability to implement rules, guidelines, emergency procedures, and policies dictated by policy, and installation standard operating procedures. Please include MONTH/YEAR and HOURS per week for all previous work experience listed on the resume. If there is no indication of time in position, we will credit the minimum.
Major DutiesSummary of Duties: This position serves as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for Semper Fit, Warrior Athlete Readiness and Resilience Program (WARR) to improve the readiness, lethality, and resilience of total force in all domains of fitness ' physical, mental, spiritual, and social and foundational building blocks of Marine Corps Total Fitness (MCTF). The incumbent ensures the strength and conditioning program components are provided to active duty, families, and all authorized users aboard the base in support of military readiness. Major Duties: The Strength and Conditioning Coach creates performance-based programs which include modalities such as strength, power, speed, agility, aerobic and anaerobic training, -recovery, for Marine Corps units, Marine athletes, and individual Marines and provide pre-designed strength and conditioning programs for family members that align with Marine Corps policies and MCTF strategy. The programs focus on improving physical performance, reducing musculoskeletal injuries (MSKI), and enhancing physical, social, spiritual, and mental wellness. The strength and conditioning coach develop unit and individual-specific, sport-specific, and structured periodized training programs for Marines and works as part of a larger unit or team such as WARR and MCTF providers. This collaborative environment involves communicating with commands, developing structured strength and conditioning programs, and working with athletic trainers, other strength and conditioning coaches, and other subject matter experts. Together, they provide services related to social, spiritual, physical, and mental performance, fostering a sense of shared responsibility and collective achievement. The incumbent actively coaches and provides physical instruction, assessments, and demonstrations of various components of strength and conditioning to include nervous system regulation and activation, mobility (dynamic and transient), speed, agility, and quickness, conditioning (aerobic and anaerobic), strength and power, and reconditioning programming. The incumbent provides standardized strength and conditioning education, and training developed by Headquarters Semper Fit to include, but not limited to, the Strength and Conditioning for Small Unit Leaders online course and the Strength and Conditioning in-person course. The incumbent delivers sessions or classes at various locations such as where units reside, on sports fields, in performance centers, and in classrooms. Supports training activities and events at various locations such as Marines Corps schoolhouses, training sites, or in garrison or field. Utilizes athlete management software systems to program, periodize and track performance.RequirementsEVALUATIONS: