Announcement: Looking for a coach to join the Scientific Triathlon team

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Email your application to mikael@scientifictriathlon.com. We have an exciting career opportunity for coaches out there. As our team is approaching full capacity of coached athletes, we are looking to bring on a new coach to join our team and work with athletes from around the world. To apply, respond to this email with your CV and tell me a bit more about yourself as a person, as a coach, and why you want to join Scientific Triathlon. Here is a list of a few important characteristics, skills, and experiences in a prospective coach: Cognitive skills and desire to learn Communication skills and interpersonal skills Coaching experience Athletic experience English language skills Coaching certifications Specific knowledge, education and experience in any of the following areas would be considered a plus and is worth highlighting. Languages other than English Strength training Biomechanics Physiotherapy (Sports) medicine (Sports) Psychology (Sports) Nutrition Bike fitting Aerodynamics Sports physiology & exercise science Behavioural science Communication sciences Pedagogy Statistics or data science There is one requirement, without which your application will unfortunately not be considered, so please clarify your goals in this regard. Ambition to eventually dedicate 50% to 100% of a full-time job to coaching. In practice, this means that you will want to coach a minimum of 10 athletes eventually. The work is on an independent contractor basis, where payment is based on the athletes coached. The work can be done remotely from anywhere in the world. More details about the nature of the work, compensation etc. will be given to serious applicants. Feel free to ask for clarification, or send in your application, by emailing mikael@scientifictriathlon.com. If the role is not for you, but you know someone that might be interested, please share this with them and encourage them to apply. I look forward to hearing from as many exceptional coaches as possible. Good luck!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a not so regular that triathlon show episode, everybody.
0:27.0	This is an important and time sensitive announcement for coaches out there.
0:31.7	As the scientific triathlon coaching team has reached very near full capacity across our
0:35.8	athlete rosters, we are looking to bring on
0:37.6	a new coach to join the team and work with athletes from around the world. This is a remote
0:42.6	coaching role so you can apply no matter where in the world you are based and it is done on an
0:46.3	independent contractor basis. Details about the compensation will be shared with serious applicants.
0:51.9	The main responsibility is of course working one on one with athletes,
0:55.3	so you should have plenty of coaching experience, relevant certifications, and most importantly,
1:00.8	the skill set across a number of important factors for a coach, from training expertise
1:05.1	naturally to communication, to deliver a very high standard of coaching, performance
1:09.7	improvement and overall experience of
1:12.0	being a coached athlete with you. While building up an athlete roster doesn't happen in an
1:18.6	extremely short amount of time, it takes some time. The expectation is that if you apply for this role,
1:23.2	you have the ambition to grow your coaching to close to a 50% full-time role at a minimum as a
1:29.0	scientific triathlon coach. And if your goal is to get to 100% then that's even better,
1:34.1	of course, but that doesn't have to be your ambition. We're happy enough if your goal is to
1:38.5	get to around that 50% mark. The advantages of being a scientific triathlon coach include,
1:43.9	first of all the benefit
1:45.4	of working with a well-known credible coaching business that lots of athletes want to work with.
1:50.6	The fact that all of our coaches are at or very close to full capacity is testament to this
1:55.8	fact. It's not that easy to get to that point as a coach. It's a hard competitive business. So,
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