Varsity Soccer Coach

Woodlands Academy is seeking a Varsity Soccer Coach for the 2024-2025 academic year. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to effectively relate and communicate to diverse constituents a high level of knowledge about the fundamentals and strategies of Soccer to the student-athletes of Woodlands Academy.
The Varsity Soccer Coach will report to the Athletic Director and join a highly collaborative, innovative, and experienced athletic department.

Responsibilities include:
· Provide leadership that promotes positive attitudes and good sportsmanship
· Notifies all members of the team of all Woodland’s Academy Athletic Program policies, procedures, and training rules as they pertain to the team
· Implements programmatic instruction of sequential fundamentals and proper conditioning for all levels of the program
· Plan and communicate to Junior Varsity practice sessions and competition strategies that ensure the health and physical well-being of student participants
· Coordinates in conjunction with the Athletic Director practice schedules, team tryouts, meetings, team workouts, and end of the season awards
· Maintains the proper supervision of student-athletes at practices, games, in locker rooms, and on school-provided transportation
· Conducts a mandatory preseason parent meeting
· Coordinates the distribution, care, inventory, and collection of uniforms and equipment
· Maintains individual and team records and statistics
Requirements
· Previous Soccer coaching experience
· Meet IHSA criteria
· Must be available from the first allowable date of play as designated by the IHSA for all practices, games, and regional/state finals
· A willingness to be an active, enthusiastic member of the Woodlands Academy community
· Completion of Virtus: Protecting God’s Children training
· Successful completion of criminal and sexual offender registry background checks

Why you should join our community:

- Get to make an impact on the lives of young women

- The opportunity to help student-athletes develop      their skills and achieve their goals
How to apply:
Please complete the application materials on our Employment page. All applicants must apply with a cover letter, resume, and Personal Reflection on the Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria . We also strongly suggest that applicants submit three written references.

Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart is an all-girls, Catholic, college preparatory day and boarding school in Lake Forest, IL. Visit the school’s website at www.woodlandsacademy.org

Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart is an equal-opportunity employer. It does not discriminate against any individual based on race, color, religion*, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, disability, protected veteran status or being a member of the Reserves or National Guard, or any other classification under state or federal law.

*The School reserves the right to use religion as a hiring criterion for selected positions and the nature of a school as a faith-based institution as permitted by law.