Student Assistant Coach - Softball

Position Title: Student Assistant Coach - Softball

Department: Athletics

Advertised Pay: 10.00

Campus Location: Washburn University

Position Summary:

Responsible for supporting the coach, team, and staff in support of the department's goals while fulfilling the positions essential functions.

About Washburn University: 

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of just over 7,000 students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
• Follow up on recruits that we have contacted and attend tournaments to watch them play.
• Help organize and run our camps.
• Schedule our fall scrimmages against Jucos.
• Inventory our equipment/apparel.
• Generate a list for all players that includes biographical information, sizes for all apparel, numbers and parent information.
• Handle all social media for Washburn Softball.
• Assist staff with practices and game-day preparations.

Non-Essential Functions:
Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:
Current student at Washburn University.
Experience playing Softball and have a good understanding of the game.

Special Instructions to Applicants: 

Hourly, Part time, Varies, Varies/Shift   
Background Check Required