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About the Role
NYJTL is seeking instructors specializing in junior development to train high-potential players for tournament play. The role involves designing and delivering advanced tennis lessons, focusing on stroke mechanics, tactics, and strategy, while fostering a positive coaching environment. Instructors will prepare players for local, in-house, and USTA tournaments.
Responsibilities
- Reports to assigned site daily, on time, properly attired and ready to work.
- Designs and delivers advanced lesson plans covering stroke mechanics, footwork, tactics, and strategy for intermediate-to-advanced and tournament-track players.
- Adheres to positive coaching philosophy, motivating participants through encouragement and praise while pushing players toward measurable skill progression.
- Models polite, courteous, and respectful behavior while interacting with program participants and staff.
- Evaluates player skill level and adjusts instruction to challenge and advance higher-level athletes.
- Prepares players for match play and competition, including tournament readiness, scoring, rules, and on-court decision-making.
- Assists in court setup and breakdown, including ensuring cleanliness and safety.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Demonstrated experience playing and/or coaching competitive tennis (high school varsity, college, USTA tournament play, or equivalent).
- Successful completion of pre-employment advanced tennis skills assessment.
- Previous experience coaching children in a similar setting required.
- USPTA/PTR/USTA certification preferred; candidates with tournament coaching or player-development experience considered.
- Player experience as a junior, college or adult preferred.
Skills
- Attendance and punctuality
- Strong technical tennis knowledge. Able to teach and correct advanced stroke mechanics, footwork, and tactics.
- Proper and precise use of tennis terminology.
- Ability to assess player skill level and tailor instruction accordingly.
- Understanding of competitive match play, scoring, and tournament preparation.
- Effective initiative, teamwork, communication, and cooperation.
Location
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- The Bronx
Work Type
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Competitive tennis experience
- Coaching children experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $30.00 - $36.00 per hour
About the Company
- For over fifty years, New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) has honored its founder Arthur Ashe’s legacy by celebrating the diversity of children, encouraging them to reach their highest potential through free tennis and academic programs.
- NYJTL is the largest provider of youth tennis and education programs in the nation, providing services in 100 unique sites across all five boroughs while reaching nearly 90,000 kids.
- NYJTL designed, funded (with NYC), built and operates the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the South Bronx.
- All NYJTL community tennis and after school programs are offered at no cost to its participants.
- The mission of NYJTL is to develop the character of young people through tennis and education for a lifetime of success on and off the court.
- It believes life skills gained through tennis, academics, healthy living, and character development are a catalyst for long-term achievement.
- The Pathways Programs are designed to be a bridge between our grass roots community programs and school-based programs.
- Chosen on a tryout basis, these additional programs are designed for players ready to progress to a higher competitive level, offering focused early-morning and evening training sessions for athletes committed to advancing their games.
Equal Opportunity
- NYJTL values the diversity of the people we hire and inspire. Diversity at our organization means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation/affectional preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We center equity in all our work and in our hiring practices.