Senior Strength & Conditioning Coach

SINGAPORE SPORTS SCHOOL LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports institution in Singapore is seeking an experienced professional to provide mentorship and manage the strength and conditioning team. The ideal candidate will design and implement programs for various national sports associations. This role requires 15+ years of experience in strength and conditioning support, management capabilities, and certification in the field. The position promotes continuous improvement, collaboration, and effective stakeholder partnerships.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years in strength and conditioning support.
• Demonstrated experience interacting with high performance coaches and athletes.
• More than 2 years in management or supervision of staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship to strength and conditioning staff.
• Design and implement strength and conditioning programs.
• Establish effective partnerships with stakeholders.

Skills

Mentorship

Program Design

Stakeholder Partnership

Education

Background in Sport Science or related specialty

Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)

Job description

Responsibilities

You will provide mentorship to develop and manage the strength and conditioning team. This position will design, implement, and deliver strength and conditioning services to multiple National Sports Association (NSA).

In this role, you will,

• Support the Strength and Conditioning Team Lead in all aspects of the delivery of strength and conditioning support within SSI including but not limited to staff management, facility management, budget planning, establishing, and maintaining a positive team culture.
• Provide mentorship to develop the strength and conditioning staff including setting direction and standards.
• Design and implement strength and conditioning programs in collaboration with coaches and other sport scientists. These include, but are not limited to, programs to enhance strength, power, speed, agility, movement skills, endurance capacity and injury risk reduction and rehabilitation.
• Provide assigned sport teams with strength and conditioning testing and monitoring support in the daily training environment and training camps.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by constructively challenging coaches to develop appropriate strategies to achieve objectives of continued athlete development and performance.
• Facilitate conflict resolution and management of issues impacting on athlete performance while proactively contributing to performance teams through individual accountability, sharing information, involving team members in decisions, and demonstrating commitment to the team.
• Support a learning environment which enables coaches and athletes to gain insights through physical and performance variables which assess training program effectiveness, informs program design and competition strategies, and contributes to a multi-disciplinary approach to athlete/event profiling.
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes.
• Take on the lead scientist role for an assigned sport team. This involve managing the sport science support services, and developing and operationalizing a two-to-six-year R&D roadmap for the sport.

Job Requirements

• Background in Sport Science or Strength and Conditioning or related specialty
• Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Level 2 or higher, Australian Strength & Conditioning Association (ASCA) Certificate or an internationally-recognised equivalent
• CPR and AED certification
• Minimum 15 years in the provision and application of strength and conditioning support and proven experience interacting with high performance coaches and athletes
• Demonstrated ability to modify and develop programmes according to the results of a needs analysis including athlete assessment, musculoskeletal, dynamic profile and injury history
• Demonstrated more than 2 years of experience in the management and/or supervision of staff
• Demonstrated extensive experience in working in a high performance environment encompassing project and research studies