Strength and Conditioning Coach

Quick Facts

• Role: Strength and Conditioning Coach

Description

The Strength and Conditioning Coach supports Semper Fit’s Warrior Athlete Readiness and Resilience (WARR) program by improving Marine readiness and resilience through physical performance services for Marines, families, and authorized users. The coach designs evidence-based, periodized programs across strength, power, speed, agility, conditioning, and recovery, and delivers coaching, assessments, demonstrations, and reconditioning. The role also provides safety guidance, coordinates with performance stakeholders, and programs/tracks performance using athlete-management software.

Responsibilities

• Design evidence-based, periodized training programs in strength, power, speed, agility, conditioning, and recovery

• Provide coaching, assessments, demonstrations, and reconditioning focused on mobility, speed, agility, conditioning, strength, power, and nervous-system regulation

• Collaborate with commands, athletic trainers, performance specialists, and other subject-matter experts

• Deliver Headquarters Semper Fit courses and performance sessions at unit spaces, fields, performance centers, classrooms, schoolhouses, and field sites

• Use athlete-management software to program and track performance and safeguard records under Marine Corps Order 5210.11 and HIPAA

• Support family, youth, school, community, and open-training programs with safety guidance and customer service

• Report hazards and incidents; follow EEO and harassment-prevention standards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in exercise science, physiology, human performance, kinesiology, biomechanics, physical education, or related field

• 1 year of relevant experience

• Current NSCA-CSCS or CSCCA certification required

• Valid driver’s license required; SOFA license required for OCONUS positions

• Knowledge of tactical strength and conditioning, unit-readiness planning, biomechanics, anatomy, metabolism, sport psychology, and periodization

• Experience coaching groups of 15–50 and conducting performance testing

• Ability to adapt programs to competition or deployment cycles and work on interdisciplinary performance teams

• Ability to teach and evaluate warm-ups, speed, agility, strength, power, conditioning, injury prevention, corrective exercise, and recovery

• Ability to design general and sport-specific programs; counsel participants; refer contraindications to medical/support services

• Familiarity with athletic training, mental skills, nutrition, and sleep support

• Ability to apply strength-and-conditioning standards, emergency procedures, and installation policies in military/first-responder/high-school/collegiate settings

Benefits

• Federal career with comprehensive benefits package; eligibility depends on position type

• Stability of Federal Civilian Service

• Quality of Work Life Balance

• Competitive Pay

• Comprehensive benefit packages

• Marine Corps Exchange and Base Facility privileges