Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Welfare and Compliance

Department Leadership

• Assists the Director of Athletics in establishing policies and procedures that ensure effective development of quality, competitive athletic teams and support of the individual educational goals of student-athletes.

• Works closely with academic support and other campus partners in student-athlete retention efforts.

• Supervises selected intercollegiate athletic teams and their respective coaching staffs.

• Serves as the member of the Athletic department’s leadership team and the Senior Women’s Administrator (SWA).

• Assists in serving as a site supervisor for intercollegiate competition.

• Coordinates travel logistics for all teams, including, but not limited to, van leasing and bus transport reservations for external competition and training.

• Oversees talent acquisition process including coordination of posting open staff and graduate assistant positions, organizing phone interviews, coordinating campus visits, and assists in initiating hiring process with supervisors.

• Leads on-boarding process for all new graduate assistant hires. Responsible for coordinating orientation and ongoing professional development for graduate assistant positions.

• Assists in the coordination of athletic department staff meetings, functions, and other duties as assigned by the Director of Athletics. 

Student Athlete-Welfare

• Serves as a member of the institutional Case Management Team.

• Works closely with the Faculty Athletics Representative to develop and coordinate an effective academic enrichment program utilizing study halls, existing peer tutoring programs, and academic support programming.

• Collects and analyzes academic indicators to manage academic eligibility on a semester basis (GPA, academic progress towards a degree, academic standing).

• Actively manages student-athlete records on the Starfish online retention software program.

• Designs an effective data gathering instrument(s) to collect academic information for student-athletes on a timely basis.

• Facilitate end-of-season student-athlete satisfaction surveys for all teams. 

• Coordinates student-athlete recognition events and programming and special events focused on improving student-athlete welfare.

• Works closely with Chief Conduct Officer in managing student-athlete conduct incidents and climate concerns that may arise, while also assisting in developing athletics sanctions when necessary.

NCAA Compliance

• Monitors compliance with institutional, conference and NCAA rules and regulations governing intercollegiate athletics.

• Develops and implements effective protocols to monitor student-athlete compliance.

• Coordinates rules education program for staff and student-athletes.

• Educates student-athletes in the area of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) legislation.

• Manages the transfer portal, and all transfer eligibility forms.

• Schedules and conducts all introductory NCAA compliance meetings in the fall, winter and spring.

• Completes all mandatory NCAA compliance surveys, sport sponsorship forms and coordinates the completion of the NCAA Graduation Rate Report and the NCAA Financial Aid Survey.