Associate Head Coach, Swimming

IMG Academy; Bradenton (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k Matching

Disability Insurance

Gym Discount

Wellbeing Program

Job summary

IMG Academy Swimming seeks an Associate Head Coach to support athlete development and training design, with responsibilities spanning practice planning, competition preparation, scouting, and recruitment operations. You will work closely with the Head Coach to sustain a high-performance environment emphasizing accountability, growth, and competitive excellence.

The role requires extensive experience in swimming coaching, a track record of developing competitive swimmers, and strong collaboration

Qualifications

• High level coaching proficiency in competitive swimming.
• 5+ years coaching, competing, or managing swimming at club, academy, collegiate, or higher level.
• Strong knowledge of all four strokes, starts, turns, and underwater skills.
• Experience using performance data, video analysis, and testing to guide training.
• Current USA Swimming coach membership and required certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute daily practices, competitions, and training trips.
• Lead athlete development across four strokes and race strategy.
• Develop short and long term training plans aligned with goals.
• Monitor training, wellness, workload, and performance trends.
• Coordinate meet operations, entries, and results.

Skills

Coaching

Athlete development

Video analysis

Performance training

Hydration/Recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

HYTEK Meet Manager

CTSO timing systems

Job description

About IMG Academy

IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.

IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future while preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy has been nationally recognized by organizations including Sports Business Journal, USA Today, and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for its workplace culture, innovation, and commitment to developing people both on and off the field.

IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for student-athletes and partners through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, delivered on a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Florida
• Online coaching through IMG Academy+, focused on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting through NCSA College Recruiting and SportsRecruits, providing industry-leading recruiting education, tools, and access to a network of more than 40,000 college coaches for student-athletes, families, club coaches, and event operators
• Elevate by IMG Academy, a performance and personal development solution that delivers mindset, leadership, and wellbeing programming to schools, colleges, and organizations through a combination of digital content and immersive experiences

Position Summary:

The Associate Head Coach supports all aspects of the IMG Academy Swimming program, including athlete development, training design, competition preparation, recruiting, swim meet operations, staff development, and overall program operations. This position works closely with the Head Coach to build and maintain a high-performance environment focused on individual athlete development, competitive excellence, character, accountability, and long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning, organization, and execution of all swimming program activities, including daily practices, competitions, training sessions, camps, clinics, training trips, and athlete development initiatives.
• Lead and oversee student athlete development across all four competitive strokes, starts, turns, underwater skills, race strategy, pacing, technique, and overall swimming efficiency.
• Develop and implement comprehensive short term and long-term training plans aligned with individual athlete needs, competition schedules, long term athlete development, and program performance goals.
• Monitor athlete training, attendance, wellness, recovery, workload, and performance trends to help guide training decisions and individualize athlete development.
• Utilize video analysis, performance data, and available technology to identify areas for improvement and establish measurable performance benchmarks.
• Assist with competition preparation, including athlete event planning, entries, race strategy, relays, warm up and recovery protocols, competition schedules, and post-meet performance evaluation.
• Plan, organize, and execute swim meets and competitions, including meet sanctioning, meet setup, entries, seeding, timelines, session planning, officials’ coordination, volunteer staffing, timing equipment, results, and post meet reporting.
• Serve in meet leadership roles as needed, coordinating with meet directors, administrative officials, timing personnel, officials, coaches, volunteers, and facility staff to ensure professional and efficient competition operations.
• Support the planning and execution of IMG Academy hosted competitions, invitationals, time trials, championship meets, and other aquatic events.
• Foster a positive, disciplined, competitive, and growth-oriented team culture that emphasizes accountability, leadership, sportsmanship, personal development, and high performance standards.
• Serve as a mentor to student athletes, supporting their athletic, academic, emotional, and personal development.
• Assist in managing program operations, including practice schedules, pool and lane assignments, travel logistics, roster management, competition planning, equipment, and event coordination.
• Collaborate with the Head Coach and program leadership to continually evaluate and improve program structure, training systems, coaching methodology, athlete development pathways, and overall performance.
• Assist in identifying, evaluating, recruiting, and retaining high level student athletes domestically and internationally for IMG Academy Swimming.
• Build and maintain relationships with club coaches, collegiate coaches, national governing bodies, swimming organizations, and members of the domestic and international swimming community.
• Support student athletes throughout the collegiate recruiting and placement process by providing guidance, evaluations, communication support, and exposure opportunities.
• Assist with prospective athlete visits, evaluations, camps, clinics, recruiting events, and family engagement.
• Maintain strong communication with student athletes, parents and guardians, coaching staff, and internal departments regarding athlete development, expectations, academics, competition schedules, travel, and overall program operations.
• Collaborate with across departments to support the holistic development and wellbeing of student athletes.
• Work closely with performance staff to integrate strength training, recovery, nutrition, sports science, mental performance, and other available resources into the overall athlete development process.
• Partner with Marketing, Communications, Outreach, and Admissions teams to support program visibility, branding, recruiting, content, and promotional initiatives.
• Represent IMG Academy Swimming professionally with USA Swimming, Florida Swimming, collegiate programs, national and international swimming organizations, visiting teams, prospective families, and event partners.
• Ensure compliance with IMG Academy policies, USA Swimming requirements, Safe Sport policies, NCAA recruiting guidelines where applicable, and all relevant governing body standards.
• Support swimming camps, clinics, competitions, events, and visiting team training opportunities throughout the year.
• Travel as needed for competitions, training trips, recruiting activities, camps, and program events.
• Adhere to all company policies, procedures, and business ethics standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• High level proficiency in competitive swimming coaching, athlete development, technical instruction, and performance training.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience coaching, competing, or managing swimming at the club, academy, collegiate, national, international, or professional level.
• Demonstrated success developing competitive swimmers and contributing to a high-performance training environment.
• Strong knowledge of all four competitive strokes, starts, turns, underwater skills, race strategy, training methodology, periodization, energy systems, and long-term athlete development.
• Experience utilizing performance data, video analysis, testing, and athlete feedback to guide training and technical development.
• Demonstrated experience planning and managing swim meets from initial sanctioning and meet setup through competition execution, results, and final reporting.
• Highly proficient with HY TEK Meet Manager, including meet setup, entries, seeding, meet operations, results, reports, and timing system integration.
• Proficient in the operation and troubleshooting of Colorado Time Systems and OMEGA electronic timing systems, including timing consoles, touchpads, backup timing, harnesses, and scoreboard integration.
• Proven leadership, organizational, communication, and relationship building skills.
• Strong commitment to student athlete development and success both in and out of the pool.
• Bachelor’s degree in physical education, sports management, exercise science, business administration, or related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience coaching athletes at the national, international, NCAA, Olympic Trials, or equivalent high-performance level.
• Experience recruiting and working with domestic and international student athletes.
• Experience with collegiate recruiting and athlete placement.
• Experience managing swimming camps, clinics, meets, training trips, and other aquatic events.
• Familiarity with swimming performance technology, underwater video, race analysis, athlete monitoring, and performance data systems.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, and developing coaching staff.
• Current USA Swimming coach membership and required certifications, or ability to obtain.
• CPR, First Aid, AED, and applicable water safety certifications.
• Bilingual or multilingual communication skills.
• Valid driver’s license with the ability to drive for competitions, recruiting, training trips, and other program activities.

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• Ability to lift, move, push, and pull swimming equipment or boxes in excess of 40 pounds.
• Ability to work for extended periods in indoor and outdoor aquatic environments, including heat, humidity, and varying weather conditions.
• Must be able to move throughout campus, including pool decks, strength and conditioning facilities, classrooms, athletic facilities, and other training areas.
• Ability to remain active and on the pool deck for extended training and competition periods.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, competitions, and travel, as required.

Background Requirements

• Requires a background check upon offer
• Requires a drug test upon offer

This position requires a Florida Level 2 Background Screening. Learn more about the screening process and requirements by visiting the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Education & Awareness website: https://info.flclearinghouse.com.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
• 401k with an Employer Match
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Group and Supplemental Life & AD&D
• Gym Discount Program
• Pet Insurance
• Wellbeing Program
• and more!

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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