Assistant Equestrian Coach

Position Details

Position Title: Assistant Equestrian Coach

Position Number: 1128154

Posting Date: 10/16/2025

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employment Category: Regular Full Time

Scheduled

Hours:

40 per week

Scheduled Months per Year: 12

Location: Hanover, NH (Onsite only)

To assist the head coach in planning, coaching, recruiting, administering, and promoting the equestrian program within the NCAA, NCEA, Ivy League, and institutional standards.

Essential duties include:

• Coaching/Mentoring
  :
  Assist the head coach in conducting team practices, training, conditioning, and competitions. Prepare horses and arena for practices. Teach equitation skills to student-athletes. Provide guidance on academic, personal, and physical welfare.
• Horsemanship (20%):
  Care for horses with meticulous attention to feeding, turnout, first aid, cleaning stalls, and maintaining tack and equipment. Work with the head coach to maintain a fitness plan for each horse.
• Recruiting (20%):
  Assist the head coach in developing a recruiting plan, identify qualified prospects, communicate by phone, mail, and e‑mail, organize and participate in campus visits, and maintain recruiting records.
• Administration (10%):
  Comply with NCAA and Ivy League rules, assist in budgeting, expense reconciliation, schedule planning, travel coordination, and alumni/parent/community communication. Promote the program and represent Dartmouth in an exemplary manner. Demonstrate commitment to diversity, inclusion, and cultural awareness.
• Miscellaneous
  :
  Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3–5 years’ experience competing and/or coaching at the NCEA collegiate or 3'6" level.
• Positive, team‑oriented attitude.
• Ability to work independently.
• Strong organizational skills with excellent attention to detail and focus on quality.
• Ability to operate vehicles, small equipment, tools, and tractors.
• Physical ability to work in all weather, lift/push/pull up to 50 lb, stand/walk for extended periods, bend, kneel, stoop, reach overhead and below. Comfort with exposure to dirt, dust, pollen, animal hair/feathers; willingness to work weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of correct equitation.
• Prior experience riding/training horses at the 3'6" level and teaching riding lessons.

• 3+ years of coaching at the NCEA collegiate or 3'6" level.
• Bachelor’s degree in Equine Studies.
• Experience loading and hauling horses with a bumper pull and/or gooseneck horse trailer.

Name: Mariruth Graham

Email: mariruth

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Employment is contingent upon consent to and successful completion of a pre‑employment background check, which may include a criminal background check, reference checks, verification of work history, conduct review, and verification of required academic credentials. Results must be acceptable to Dartmouth College. A criminal conviction will not automatically disqualify an applicant.

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