Sports Medicine Administrator

University of Maryland, United States

Updated: 1 day ago
Location: College Park, MARYLAND
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Posting Details
Posting Details


Position Number: 100031
Title: Administrator
Functional Title: Sports Medicine Administrator
Category Status: 33-Exempt Regular
Applicant Search Category: Staff
University Authorized FTE: 1.000
Unit: VPSA-UHC-University Health Center
Campus/College Information:
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
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Position Summary/Purpose of Position:
This position will manage and administer areas of sport medicine including, but not limited to, athletic training, sports nutrition, sport psychology and medical services contracts for additional team physicians, physical therapists, massage therapists, psychiatrists, and other allied health providers. This position reports to and supports the Director of Sports Medicine/Head Team Physician within the University Health Center.
Benefits Summary Top Benefits and Perks:

Exempt Benefits Summary

Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
  • Master’s degree from an accredited University and an advanced degree in athletic training, physical therapy, kinesiology, exercise physiology, or related field.


Experience:
  • Five (5) to Seven (7) years of experience as an administrator in Sports Medicine. Demonstrated experience in managing budgets, health care staff, and health care policies.
  • Demonstrated experience supervising athletic trainers, sports psychologists, and sports nutritionists.
  • Five (5) years of experience in NCAA Division I athletics and/or professional sports.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of injury prevention, healthcare delivery, risk management, coordinating drug testing operations, and ensuring compliance with all Federal, State, University, Conference, and NCAA rules and regulations related to privacy, OSHA, and healthcare.
  • Knowledge of sports medicine operations and trends, risk management, policy and procedure development, drug testing administration, and insurance operations.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of NCAA rules, regulations, and medical guidance.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of FERPA and HIPAA policies and practices.
  • Demonstrated teaching experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with various constituencies in a diverse community.
  • Ability and desire to perform accurate detail-oriented work, to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and to establish a professional demeanor.
  • Ability to interpret, comply with, and enforce NCAA, Big Ten and University rules, regulations and medical guidance.
  • Ability to exercise discretion in highly confidential matters.
  • Ability to foster a cooperative environment.
  • Ability to work early mornings, late nights, weekends, extended periods of time, travel, and be on-call as a regular part of the job.
  • Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, regulations, and laws.
  • Ability to multitask while demonstrating a commitment to customer service and sensitivity to a culturally and ethnically diverse community.
Preferences:
Preferences:
  • PH.D
  • Volunteer experience with national organizations. 
  • Ability to read and interpret scientific research.
Additional Certifications:
Additional Information:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Duty/Responsibility (1): | – Collaborate with the Head Team Physician with administrative tasks as assigned such as budgets, audits, reports, surveys, meeting management, and identifying current best practices.- Collaborate with the Head Team Physician with developing, implementing, and auditing sports medicine policies, protocols, and practices that best serve student-athletes.
- Serve as liaison between the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) Department and the UHC Sports Medicine Department.
Percentage (1): | 60%
Essential Duty/Responsibility (2): | Manage affiliate medical services contracts for additional team physicians, physical therapists, massage therapists, chiropractors, x-ray services, psychiatrists, and other allied health providers including onboarding and team collaboration. Fosters collaboration and cooperation between all areas of sports performance.
Percentage (2): | 20%
Essential Duty/Responsibility (3): | Supervise educational programming for student-athletes, sport coaches, and athletics health care providers on topics including, but not limited to, sports-related concussion, emergency action plans, head and neck injuries, cardiac events, environmental monitoring, exertional heat illness, exertional collapse, sickle cell trait, asthma, rhabdomyolysis, diabetic emergency, and proper training, periodization principles and other topics as needed.
Percentage (3): | 10%
Essential Duty/Responsibility (4): | Work collaboratively with coaching staff, strength and conditioning and sports performance personnel, physicians, athletic trainers, contracted healthcare providers, and University and athletic administration. Other duties as assigned.
Percentage (4): | 10%
Job Risks Occupational Related Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure , Respiratory Protection
Physical Demands
The scope of this position requires occasional weekend and evening work (Non-standard work hours). While performing the essential functions of the job, the employee operates a computer and other office devices such as telephones, copy machines, fax machines, etc. Constantly moves about the facility and campus. Usual demands of an office environment with some bending, stooping, and lifting less than 25 lbs. Potential exposure to communicable disease by virtue of working in a healthcare facility.
Posting Date: 04/05/2024
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled Yes
Best Consideration Date 05/01/2024
Diversity Statement:
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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