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Posted: 08-May-26
Location: Medford, Massachusetts
Internal Number: 23100
Located five miles from downtown Boston, Tufts University is a Division III member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the highly-competitive New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Tufts student-athletes participate in 30 varsity sports, 32 club sports and a number of intramural sports. Tufts Athletics has won 17 NCAA team championships since 2010 and has finished in the top 10 of the Learfield Sports Directors? Cup every year for the past decade, including winning the Director's Cup in 2022 as the top Division III Athletic Department in the nation. Tufts Athletics oversees the University?s Physical Education Department and manages all athletics facilities. The Department of Athletics provides student-athletes with a dynamic, transformational experience on and off the field. They experience the joy of personal growth inherent in high level competition, while cultivating lifelong connections with teammates, the Tufts community and the world around us.
What You'll Do
The Head Coach for Women?s Basketball is responsible for effectively operating all aspects of an NCAA Division III women?s basketball program. This includes, but is not limited to, recruiting academically qualified and athletically talented high school athletes, leading and managing the student-athletes and assistant coach, organizing and running practices, creating and sustaining an environment that supports the Tufts mission, building a competitive schedule, operating the program within budgetary limits, managing administrative tasks effectively, and actively participating in alumni engagement and fundraising activities.
Essential Function:
- Direct all aspects of a comprehensive NCAA Division III varsity women?s basketball program, providing a transformational student-athlete experience, which complements the Tufts University mission
- Identify, evaluate and successfully recruit highly-selective student-athletes within the framework and guidelines of University and conference policies and procedures
- Educate and effectively coach student-athletes
- Supervise and direct assistant coach(es), ensuring adherence to all association, conference and university rules by student-athletes and support staff
- Conduct team and program fund-raising and external/alumni relations as needed
- Complete secondary department duties as assigned by the Director of Athletics
What We're Looking For
Basic Requirements:
Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:
Knowledge and experience typically acquired by:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 to 7 years of coaching experience
- Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively coach the sport, develop and relate to student-athletes in an extremely competitive academic environment
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; gender equity; and the mission of Tufts University
- Knowledge of NCAA and NESCAC rules and a commitment to abide by them at all times
- Ability to recruit academically qualified and athletically talented student-athletes to Tufts
- Dedication to the full academic, athletic and social development of student-athletes
- Extensive knowledge of the sport and a sophisticated understanding of coaching strategies with a demonstrated ability to enhance student-athlete development
- Ability to communicate effectively and foster positive relations with fellow athletics department staff members, student-athletes and other members of the Tufts community, including faculty, staff, donors, alumni, and local community members
- Valid driver's license and ability to travel
Preferred Qualifications:
- Competitive collegiate student-athlete experience
- Fundraising experience
Pay Range
Minimum $96,500.00, Midpoint $120,600.00, Maximum $144,800.00
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
About Tufts University
This is Tufts.
Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway).
Our employees light the way.
Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world.
At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you.
Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most.
We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging.
Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world.
An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen.
Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply.
See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/.
If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at oeo@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at https://oeo.tufts.edu/
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