NATA Career Center for Job Posters
Only for NATA members, the NATA Career Center is the most comprehensive job listing service for athletic trainers worldwide. The NATA Career Center features:
- Searchable resume database
- Auto-notification
- Job activity tracking
Posting Guidelines
The National Athletic Trainer's Association is committed to providing our members with professional job opportunities commensurate with their skills and educational background. Athletic trainers are highly trained and educated allied health care professionals. They specialize in the prevention, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses. All hold a bachelor's degree; almost 70 percent hold a master's or doctoral degree. In 2015, the professional degree level for athletic trainers changed from a bachelor's to a master's.
If you are seeking an athletic trainer, but are unsure of a position's scope of duties, prerequisite experience or competencies you may visit the Sample Job Descriptions page for examples of such.
NATA does not suggest, approve or require salary levels for jobs offered to its members. It does not influence or have input into salaries employers offer to NATA members. To be posted on the NATA professional career center, position salaries should meet or exceed the 25th percentile for that job category- based on published salary data. This is to ensure job openings listed for our members are appropriate, professional positions. NATA reserves the right to remove postings from the Career Center that do not meet the posting guidelines, refunds will not be provided.
For more information about job compensation, access the 2023 NATA Salary Survey Executive Summary.
Sample Job Descriptions
Having a proper job description document for every position on the athletic training team is critical. From job proposals and new hire recruitment to job training and performance evaluations, everything stems from the job description document. Whether proposing a new athletic training position, in the market to hire an athletic trainer or evaluating a current job description, NATA’s sample job description templates will serve as a resource to use and customize to fit the organization’s specific needs.
The job description templates include common base requirements for a variety of settings and can provide employers with a framework for creating a job posting that meets their specific criteria. Each template includes a typical position’s scope of duties, physical requirements, prerequisite experience and competencies.
Secondary Schools Employment Grant Program
NATA offers a special job posting rate of $100 to qualifying secondary schools seeking a full-time position within athletic training. Please visit the Secondary School Employment Grant page to learn more.