Selfoss-Karfa seeks an assistant coach for the club´s mens team and the Basketball Academy it runs at FSu, the local secondary school in the town of Selfoss, Iceland.
At the Academy practices/lessons are at school hours according to the school’s timetable and the focus is on individual goals for each student. The academy
students also form U-18 and U-20 boys and girls teams that participate in
official cpompetition in Iceland. The coaching role includes
-help prepare practice,
-aid the head coach in running team practice and take care of team practice in head coach’s absence
-help implement strenght and conditioning programme
-accompany team in all games and perform assistant coach duties
The club’s men’s team plays in Icelandic 2. division (1. deild) and participates in the Icelandic “Cup tournament”. The club’s special emphasis is on developing young, talented and abitious players but limits number of foreign players and professionals.
We seek for an individual with ambitious goals as a coach, that is ready to take part in the building and development of an academy in international context. Important personal qualities are enthusiasm and dicipline, positive and inspiring communication, especially with young people. Education/knowledge in physical/strenght training is desirable but further implementation of the job will be done in cooperation between the Head Coach, the board of the Club and the person in hand.
For further information contact
Club’s president
Gylfi Þorkelsson,
+354-8958400 / selfosskarfa@gmail.com
Head Coach
Chris Caird
+354-7766968 / chris.caird@gmail.com