BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY (BSU) invites applicants to join our team as the Director of Sports Medicine and Performance. The Director of Sports Medicine and Performance has full discretion and is responsible for how budget is spent on all line items utilized by any sports medicine staff in any location (home or away). The position also manages daily 2 fully functioning athletic training facilities and 2 fully functioning athletics weight rooms.

The Director manages a complex schedule of practices and events ensuring appropriate medical coverage. Management and planning includes: emergency action plans (EAPS), physician and ambulance availability, managing emergency care supplies, routine and orthopedic clinic scheduling through various off-site providers, and a variety of practices and processes which are a part of intercollegiate sport. This position must also ensure maintenance of continuing education standards set forth by the Board of Certification and Minnesota Board of Medical Practice for all staff. They also ensure staff follow the NATA Code of Ethics and follow evidence-based practice to ensure best medical practices.

Responsibilities of the Director of Sports Medicine and Performance include: Providing medical care for university student-athletes including, but not limited to prevention, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and referral for injuries, illnesses, and mental health conditions. (35%)

• Primary coverage of assigned teams including practices and games with travel as needed.
• Coordinating with strength and conditioning staff and coaching staff on appropriate injury prevention techniques.
• Immediate care and evaluation of athletic injuries.
• Post-injury treatment and rehabilitation including post-surgical care.
• Referral to appropriate providers and continued communication with those providers to ensure the best possible care.
• Triaging and assessing illnesses and mental health issues with referral to appropriate providers when necessary, including continued communication with those providers.
• Communicating injury status and athlete availability with athletics coaching staff.

• Coordinating athletic training and strength and conditioning activities for 13 NCAA Division II teams and 2 NCAA Division I teams (approximately 400 student-athletes).
• Developing and updating policies and procedures for both departments consistent with University, NCAA, State, and Federal rules and regulations.
• Providing supervision, work direction, and making hiring suggestions for four full-time athletic trainers and two strength and conditioning coaches.
• Providing supervision, work direction, and recruiting/hiring work-study and regular payroll students.
• Serving as the main liaison from the athletic training department with student health services to advocate for student-athletes.
• Developing relationships with local health providers and serving as the main contact with BSU's team physician and providers/administration at Sanford Health to advocate for best possible medical treatment.
• Monitoring athletic training budget and making decisions on purchasing, replacing, and re-conditioning equipment and medical supplies.
• Managing, ordering, and monitoring inventory.
• Making all sport assignments for the staff athletic trainers and ensuring that all athletic events and major sporting events are covered.
• Coordinating NCAA drug testing on BSU campus.

• Daily injury and treatment notes.
• Medical eligibility waivers.
• Certifying annual medical clearance.

• Maintaining awareness of all NCAA health and safety-related legislation, interassociation recommendations and resources.
• Sharing health and safety legislation, interassociation recommendations and resources with stakeholders within athletics department and on campus.
• Monitoring athletics department health and safety policies and practices to ensure compliance with NCAA legislation and establishing consistency with interassociation best practice guidance.

• Maintaining continuing education standards set forth by the Board of Certification and Minnesota Board of Medical Practice.
• Following the NATA Code of Ethics.
• Following evidence-based practice to ensure best medical practices.

Minimum qualifications for this position include:

• Master’s degree plus three (3) years of advanced professional experience in athletic training, Kinesiology, Exercise Science, or a related field, or Bachelor’s degree plus four (4) years of related advanced professional experience, or an equivalent combination of post-secondary training, education and/or advanced professional experience.
• Certified Athletic Trainer by the Board of Certification, Licensed Athletic Trainer by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, Certified in First Aid/CPR and AED for the Professional Rescuer.
• Progressive athletic training and supervisory experience.
• A demonstrated commitment to the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti­racism.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional development and professional responsibility.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Knowledge, skill and ability dealing and working with:
  • Human anatomy and physiology
  • Injury prevention strategies
  • Pathology of injuries and infectious disease
  • Orthopedic clinical examination and diagnosis
  • Acute care of injury and illness
  • Emergency care for life-threating and non-life threating injuries
  • Nutritional aspects of injury and illness
  • Healthcare administration
  • Psychosocial intervention and referral
  • Rehabilitation and conditioning of injuries
  • Therapeutic modalities
  • Sports equipment and removal
  • Pharmacology 

Preferred qualifications include:

• Athletic Training experience in a college or university setting.
• Experience working with healthcare and insurance systems.

About Bemidji State University

UNIVERSITY / COMMUNITY WHY BEMIDJI: It’s more than a job. It’s an opportunity for the extraordinary. On the idyllic shores of Lake Bemidji, cradled among the limitless natural beauty of the North Woods and neighbored by Minnesota’s three largest Indigenous nations, Bemidji State University offers opportunities for the extraordinary. Bemidji State University has been ranked as one of the top 30 public institutions in the Midwest region by U.S. News & World Report each year since 2019. BSU offers its diverse student body a comprehensive spectrum of opportunities with nearly 120 undergraduate degrees and emphasis areas in more than 50 areas of study, 14 pre-professional programs, and 14 graduate programs and certificates. As Bemidji State continues its second century of service, our vision is simple: we educate people to lead inspired lives. To achieve this, BSU centers diversity, equity and inclusion as a core value and strives to create a campus culture in which all members are free to be their authentic selves. BSU also proactively engages with Indigenous communities in northern Minnesota and nationwide toward its goal of becoming a destination university. BSU is a ...member of the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities, the third-largest system of higher education institutions in the United States. It shares a unique alignment with Northwest Technical College, with administration and student services generally having dual responsibilities to serve both campuses. Through this alignment, NTC students can take advantage of services, support, activities, and opportunities at BSU that expand and enhance their college experience — such as full access to BSU’s library and the ability to live in BSU’s on-campus resident housing. For the first time, a joint strategic planning process will guide the future directions for both institutions. The schools are pursuing four shared strategic priorities: student success, the Nisidotaading initiative, northern distinction, and telling our story. These priorities will serve as the foundations for master planning processes for facilities, academic programs, fundraising, information technology, intercollegiate athletics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among others. The Nisidotaading initiative — named for an Ojibwe phrase meaning “building mutual understanding” — is creating a statewide center of excellence. It will develop communities of practice meant to help Minnesota State colleges and universities better educate their campus communities on historical trauma and lived experiences of their Indigenous populations, and how to most effectively guide Indigenous students toward their educational goals. In addition, BSU is the first university in the United States to expose all of its students to a course on Indigenous people before graduation. Bemidji State University acknowledges that it is located on land and water that is the current and ancestral homeland of the Ojibwe and Dakota. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide, forced assimilation, and efforts to alienate the Indigenous inhabitants from their territory here. We honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land, retained tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and cultural resilience. Indigenous people are spiritual and physical caretakers of this land to which we all belong. Bemidji State University respects these sacred lands, stands with the community members from these Nations, and will fight injustice in all its forms. At Minnesota State, the work we do is more than just a job. In their pursuit of purpose, connection, and growth, our employees play a critical role on our campuses. They develop policies, provide essential services, and work to improve the well-being and quality of life for our students and for all Minnesotans. Minnesota State is committed to equity and inclusion, and we invest in our employees by providing benefits, support resources, and training and development opportunities. Unlock your potential through possibility. The City of Bemidji Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College lie amid the lakes and forests of northern Minnesota. Bemidji State occupies a wooded campus along the western shore of Lake Bemidji while Northwest Technical College lies just three miles east, near Bemidji’s robust industrial district.? The city sits between Minnesota’s three largest American Indian tribal nations: the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Red Lake Nation and the White Earth Nation. When settling the Bemidji area in 1750, the Ojibwe people named the lake Bemidjigamaag, which means “a lake with crossing waters” as the Mississippi River flows in from the south and exits on the east. Today, a city proper with a population of around 15,000 serves as a regional economic and cultural hub for about 100,000 Minnesotans. Located just minutes away from a thriving downtown Bemidji, both the BSU and NTC campus communities have convenient access to affordable restaurants, fine-dining experiences, cozy coffee shops, grocery stores — including a natural foods co-op — city parks, and nearly unlimited outdoor recreational opportunities. Small, locally-owned shops and art sculptures line Bemidji's downtown streets, while national chains are also found in and around the area.?The historic Paul Bunyan Playhouse has a calendar of classic shows, restaurants offer weekly live music performances, the First Friday Art Walk provides a tour of new monthly art exhibits, and annual festivals bring the community together throughout the year.? Additionally, the North Woods setting means students, staff, and faculty have a variety of activities available at their fingertips year-round. With more than 400 lakes — and a 240-acre research forest owned by BSU — within 25 miles of the city, there is easy access to kayaking, canoeing, swimming, boating, paddle boarding, hunting, hiking, biking, foraging, fishing, and more. An expansive network of?multi-use trail systems is available for running, cross-country skiing, single-track or fat-tire biking, and skijoring. Further, downhill skiing, snowboarding, and tubing lie just north of Bemidji at the Buena Vista Ski Area. Bemidji is also near two of Minnesota’s 66 state parks:?Lake Bemidji State Park, which sits along Lake Bemidji’s northern shore, and Itasca State Park, home to the majestic Mississippi River Headwaters. Both parks are popular recreational and camping destinations where locals and tourists gather for sailing, swimming, and fishing during the summer months, and?skating, hockey, curling, and—yes—more fishing in the winter.? Of course, no tour of Bemidji is complete without a visit to — and a selfie with — its two most famous residents: the iconic statues of Paul Bunyan and his trusty companion, Babe the Blue Ox. The famed duo, which has greeted visitors to Bemidji since 1937, is on the National Register of Historic Places and was once ranked by Kodak as the second most-photographed statue in America.

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