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Graduate Assistant, Women’s Soccer at Queens University Of Charlotte – Charlotte, North Carolina

Queens University Of Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina, 28274, United States
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SUMMARY: Queens University of Charlotte’s Athletics is an NCAA Division I program distinguished by its commitment to transforming the lives of its students and consistently competing at the highest possible levels. The Royals joined the ASUN Conference on July 1, 2022.

Former graduate assistants (GA) and interns have used their learning and practicing experiences with the Royals to land jobs with organizations such as the Carolina Panthers, Charlotte Hornets, USA Triathlon, USA Swimming, and Ally to name a few.

This is a 2-year, 20 hour/week graduate assistant position that reports directly to the Head Coach for Women’s Soccer. The GA position begins immediately. The successful candidate must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student at Queens University of Charlotte. There is no expressed or implied commitment to a paid position upon completion of the internship. This role is eligible for tuition remission for up to six credit hours per semester. No housing is offered.

Areas Learning and Application:

Budget Creation and Management

  • Learn and practice managing budgets effectively.
  • Learn and practice monitoring expenses and ensuring adherence to allocated budgets.
  • Learn and practice providing regular financial reports and analysis to relevant stakeholders.

Strong Leadership

  • Learn and practice leadership roles and guiding a group of young adults, providing them with guidance and direction.
  • Learn and practice applying coaching skills to foster personal and professional growth among team members.
  • Learn and practice effectively communicating goals, expectations, and strategies to inspire and motivate the team.

Recruiting

  • Learn and practice advanced excel skills to create comprehensive databases for recruiting purposes.
  • Learn and practice analyzing recruit profiles and evaluating their suitability for the program.
  • Learn and practice leveraging technology skills to identify and implement innovative recruiting strategies.

Management

  • Learn and practice developing strong management skills through group projects and consulting assignments.
  • Learn and practice effectively coordinating and overseeing team projects, ensuring timely completion and quality deliverables.
  • Learn and practice applying management skills while leading and mentoring a diverse group of athletes.

Technology Skills

  • Learn and practice applying technological expertise to create visually appealing graphics for attracting new recruits.
  • Learn and practice utilizing spreadsheet software to build comprehensive and efficient data management systems.
  • Learn about and practice with emerging technologies and incorporating them into coaching and communication practices.

Communications

  • Learn and practice communication skills.
  • Learn and practice effectively conveying ideas, strategies, and instructions to team members, recruits, and stakeholders.
  • Learn and practice utilizing various communication channels to maintain strong relationships with athletes, coaches, and administration.

Qualifications

  • Must be a current, full-time graduate student at Queens University of Charlotte
  • Strong communication, planning, event management, organization, and writing skills.
  • Strong follow‐up skills as well as plan, organize and control projects to completion.
  • Highly organized, detail oriented, and exceptional verbal and written communication

Program Alignment

  • Masters in Sport Management
  • Masters in Communication
  • Masters in Business Administration
  • Masters in Talent and Organizational Development

Application Process

Does this sound like a good fit? Please submit the following:

  1. A cover letter addressing the position qualifications and experience
  2. Current résumé
  3. Contact information for three professional references.

Queens will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.

About Queens University of Charlotte

Located in the heart of the nation’s second fastest growing metropolitan area, Queens University of Charlotte leverages the city’s diverse and thriving environment as an extended classroom. Nationally recognized for undergraduate programs in international and interdisciplinary education, Queens blends the best of liberal arts learning with professional preparation and community engagement. Focused on supporting success for diverse learners, faculty build close and collaborative relationships with students and help them build intentional and individualized roadmaps for flourishing at Queens and beyond. At the graduate program level, the University offers innovative educational experiences that help learners advance professionally and retool for new opportunities. Our environs afford faculty myriad opportunities to advance their own professional growth and teaching and research interests by collaborating with vibrant industry, non-profit, and community organization sectors.

Because of our history of innovation and our legacy of strong leadership, Queens is positioned to be among the new forerunners of American higher education. This is a defining moment for Queens. While other institutions are focused on sustaining and surviving, we are thinking much bigger.

Institutions that understand what is needed and are willing to reimagine what is possible can position themselves to thrive and strengthen their market position after the pandemic with innovative approaches that are deeply connected to the world and its greatest challenges.

By 2030, Queens aspires to become the leading, private, national university of Charlotte with deep, meaningful, and reciprocal connections to the needs of our local community and economy; inventive and multidisciplinary academic programs that are connected to the world’s most pressing challenges and biggest areas of opportunity; a fully connected, integrated, and innovative set of experiences that support holistic wellness and wellbeing; a culture of continuous improvement and investment that enables faculty and staff to flourish and achieve their full potential; and a comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion that begins on campus and radiates throughout the community.

Queens University of Charlotte aims to be a leading comprehensive university, distinguished by its commitment to transforming the lives of its students and enhancing the intellectual and cultural fabric of its community. Queens is a campus where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. The mission of Queens is to provide transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living, and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives. To this end, the University recruits talented faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Queens encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically minoritized communities. The University also invites applications from individuals who are prepared to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body and to collaborate with colleagues to make Queens an equitable and inclusive place to live, learn, and work.

Queens works to provide an accessible living, learning, and working environment for current and prospective faculty, staff, and students and visitors to our campus. If there are accommodations, we can provide to make your application process more accessible, please contact the Director of Human Resources (hr@queens.edu, 704-337-2297). The position duties and responsibilities listed above should be able to be completed with or without reasonable accommodations. HR works in partnership with employees to manage the workplace accommodations process.

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Charlotte, North Carolina, 28274, United States
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