Job Summary
The Justine Henin Academy, a high-level training center founded by Belgian champion Justine Henin, is recruiting an experienced tennis coach to strengthen its international coaching team.
Venue and Company description
The academy welcomes players enrolled in the Tennis & Studies program, who aim to combine quality academic education with intensive tennis training, as well as high-potential athletes seeking to benefit from the expertise of Justine Henin and her staff in a human-centered, demanding environment based on the values of performance, respect, and commitment.
Job duties and responsibilities
As a lead coach, you will be responsible for the overall support of a group of players, working closely with the sports team, families, and the academy’s administration.
Your main duties will include:
📊 Technical & Athletic Follow-Up
- Setting clear, personalized goals: ranking, tactics, technique, physical and mental aspects
- Monitoring daily training schedules: coordination with the schedule manager, daily attendance checks
- Delivering training sessions at variable hours between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm from Monday to Friday, and being available on weekends if necessary
- Coordinating with other staff members: tennis coaches, physical trainers, mental coaches, nutritionists
- Participating in weekly morning warm-ups
- Creating and regularly updating technical profiles for each player
📆 Planning & Tournaments
- Developing tournament calendars, handling registrations, managing individual budgets
- Match briefings and debriefings, coaching during matches, scouting future opponents, organizing tennis/fitness sessions and full daily routines (meals, warm-ups, stretches)
- Writing a tournament report within a week after return
- Handling logistics for international trips (including advance budgeting)
- Tracking tournament expenses
👨👩👧 Educational & Relational Follow-Up
- Three annual meetings with parents
- Sending a written debrief to the sports coordinator after each parental meeting
- Weekly email communication with families (copying academy leadership)
- Regularly checking compliance with lifestyle rules: hygiene, punctuality, nutrition, rest, academic engagement, emotional
- Leading educational workshops on tennis tactics and technique
Candidate qualifications and skills
We are looking for a passionate and rigorous coach, capable of following players individually and acting as a key reference in their overall development.
Required qualifications and skills:
- Age: 30 years or older
- Minimum 5 years’ experience on the international circuit (ATP, WTA, ITF, Tennis Europe) and/or in a renowned tennis academy
- Tennis coaching diploma (national or international)
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational abilities
- Ability to lead a group and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
- High standards and attention to detail
- Availability to travel internationally
Benefits
- A professional, dynamic, and motivating work environment
- Salary conditions adapted to experience and profile
- Access to top-level facilities
- A passionate team driven by a performance and education-based vision of sport
- Freelance status
- Variable schedule between 32 and 38 hours per week
- 4 weeks of vacation per year
