Director of Athletics

Reporting to the Lock Haven Campus Administrator, the Director of Athletics is responsible for providing visionary leadership, organization, budgeting, and evaluation of 21 intercollegiate athletic teams. which compete at both Division I and Division II levels. In addition, the Director works in collaboration with the Lock Haven Foundation to raise external funding for intercollegiate athletics and serves as the principal liaison and representative for athletics with the campus community, conference, and national affiliations. The Director is a faculty position, represented by the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) and a member of an academic department. The Director will have a lead role in program assessment and in athletics facilities development and is expected to achieve high expectations with accountability for bottom line results.

The Director of Athletics is a faculty member in the Department of Athletics Faculty and as such shall be a fully functioning member of the department as defined in the APSCUF CBA. The incumbent shall have a dotted reporting line to the Lock Haven Foundation for duties and responsibilities assigned as the Director of Athletics.

The Director provides leadership and oversees all aspects of the intercollegiate athletics program including the supervision of all programs and personnel, budgeting, contest scheduling, transportation, scheduling of facilities, fundraising, the recruitment of academically and athletically talented student-athletes, and the recruitment and evaluation of coaches. In addition, the Director ensures the athletic program achieves campus, conference and NCAA rules compliance. The Director will delegate specific responsibilities to assure the efficient and productive operation of all academic, administrative, business and fiscal activities of the department.

•     Schedules and manages all contests and their arrangements

•     Administers regulations of appropriate athletics governing bodies

•     Participates in selection of coaching staff

•     Represents Lock Haven athletics in an official capacity at events and to appropriate state, regional, and national organizations

•     Prepares budgets, monitor expenditures and ensures fiscal stewardship

•     Initiates, designs and implements long-range plans for the athletic program

•     Promotes Athletics within the mission of CU

•     Works collaboratively with health care professionals to ensure proper medical/health care is provided for student athletes

•     Directs efforts to equalize opportunities for men and women in sport

•     Promotes an inclusive environment for student-athletes, coaches and staff

•     Serves as a representative to campus and CU committees as appropriate

•     Fulfills the duties required of the Director of Athletics by the Agreement between APSCUF and PASSHE for Non-Faculty Athletic Coaches

•     Develops and implements a strategy for achieving fund-raising goals that progressively increases alumni and donor financial support for the athletic department

•     Develops and implements a strategy for securing corporate sponsorships that progressively increases financial support for Lock Haven athletics

•      Actively builds and maintains positive relationships that benefit the athletic department in local and regional community

•     Serves as the primary representative of Lock Haven Athletics to the Commonwealth University community and with external constituents and stakeholders

•     Monitor and maintain NCAA compliance requirements, with extensive knowledge of intercollegiate sports and athletics rules and regulations.

•     Develops collaborative relationships with other campus offices to ensure compliance, quality of service, and institutional integrity.