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The Sports Medicine Manager will join a world-class interdisciplinary team providing elite level health care services to UFC athletes at the UFC Performance Institute. This role supports daily operations and global initiatives, focusing on injury prevention, rehabilitation, and return-to-play protocols for MMA athletes. The role collaborates with domestic and global UFCPI teams to deliver sports medicine services effectively.
The Role And What You’ll Do
The successful candidate will:
- Oversee provision of elite level sports therapy services including evaluations, program planning and treatments that include manual, myofascial, modality and other therapeutic exercise interventions.
- Manage integration of sports medicine services into an interdisciplinary model of care with strength and conditioning, performance nutrition, sports psychology and sport science.
- Participate in establishing physical therapy care guidelines and interdisciplinary return-to-play protocols.
- Manage return-to-play protocols in collaboration with other disciplines to facilitate healing and safe returns to competition.
- Assist in developing support systems for athlete assessment, data collection, and data management.
- Cultivate relationships with athletes, coaches, and gyms to share evidence-based information.
- Participate in ongoing training with athletes, coaches, and UFC PI staff to ensure professional development and adherence to codes of conduct.
- Travel and establish a sports medicine clinic in event host hotels and deliver medical care to UFC athletes around fight events.
- Collaborate with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and commission physicians to address injuries following fight events.
- Oversee the medical holding room during events to ensure athlete health and safety.
- Aid the CMO in managing all injuries sustained during The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) events.
- Oversee the athlete brain health initiative from a distance, contacting athletes with KO/TKO incidents to offer brain health return-to-play protocols.
- Deliver educational content to partners to create a worldwide education platform.
- Collaborate with the partnership team to fulfill deliverables or testimonials for partnerships.
- Assist the Senior Director of Sports Science with essential research tasks and deliverables for the partnership team.
- Work with medical coordinators to ensure remote rehabilitation programs are current and meet milestones; connect athletes with top-tier practitioners worldwide for surgical and non-surgical interventions.
- Interview, select, and oversee all sports medicine interns for medical rotations.
- Attend to all emergency responses for UFC staff at the Performance Institute and UFC campus.
- Perform other tasks related to establishing a world-leading performance facility as requested by leadership.
You Have These
- Post Graduate Degree in Physical Therapy, Athletic Training, or Chiropractor certification (ACBSP).
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience with professional, high-level collegiate/amateur or tactical athletes in an integrated performance environment preferred.
- Credentials in sport performance and sport rehab such as SCS, OCS, CSCS, CCSP, DACBSP, PES, CES are highly preferred.
- Current state licensure in good standing in the USA; ability to obtain Nevada state licensure is required.
- Ability to collaborate with strength & conditioning staff on prevention, rehabilitation, and return to performance efforts.
- Certifications in manual therapy and soft tissue/myofascial techniques are highly preferred.
- Professional experience in contact sports; combat sports preferred.
- Understanding of MMA sport demands and related factors (physical, physiology, weight management, travel, etc.).
- Experience applying evidence-based research and implementing new research to enhance sport, athletes, and coaches.
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Note: This description reflects the current job posting and may be updated as needed.