Coaching staff
Coach on tour.
Three weeks in the United States with a team of your own. AAU tournaments, college campuses, and a group of Australian kids finding out where they really stand.
The role
It’s a coaching job, not a chaperone job.
Every tour runs on its coaches. You get a roster, a training camp and a tournament schedule, and how that team plays is down to you.
It is also three weeks of long days. Early starts, a lot of driving, evening duty, and responsibility for a group of teenagers a long way from home.
Your team is yours to coach
You have autonomy over coaching. You create, structure and run the training-camp sessions, and you coach the games. The brief is that players get equal game time and equal opportunity, with situational exceptions for injury, substitution strategy or discipline.
Mentoring is half the job
You meet with your players regularly, formally and informally. For most of them this is a first serious basketball trip overseas, and plenty of what they need from you has nothing to do with basketball.
It's fully immersive coaching
You're with your team from breakfast to lights out: training camp, tournaments, travel, college visits and team outings. You drive the team vehicle and take your turn on study hall and evening dorm duty. Three weeks like that gives you more time with a group than most of a domestic season does.
You've got support around you
Tour Managers handle the bulk of the parent communication and the contact with college coaches, and an admin team behind them runs the logistics: flights, accommodation, tournament entries, gear. The point of all of it is to leave you free to coach and mentor your players.
The deal
Paid role. Flights, beds and gear covered.
Coaches are paid a fee for the tour and engaged as contractors. The full terms are in the Coach Agreement you’d sign before departure. This is the short version, and the fee depends on the tour and the role.
We cover
- A coaching fee for the full duration of the tour, paid in AUD
- Return airfares to the tour location from your point of origin
- All accommodation within the US
- Ground transportation to every destination on tour
- Breakfast each day of the tour
- AUSA tour gear and clothing
- Petrol for the team vehicles
- USA Basketball certification, NCAA background check and BBCS registration (reimbursed)
- Global roaming allowance or a US SIM card
You cover
- Your ESTA or US visa and its fees (~US$20)
- Travel insurance, which is compulsory for Australian coaches (~A$100)
- Your Working with Children Check
- Spending money, additional meals and incidentals
- Excess baggage and any other airline fees
2027 tours
The weeks you’d be away.
Every 2027 tour runs inside one of these windows. The dates can still move by a day or two while flights are ticketed, but the windows are set by the school holidays and the NCAA live recruiting periods, so they don’t shift far.
May tour
Sat 1 May – Thu 20 May 2027
Boys · 20 days door to door
July tour
IndicativeSat 26 Jun – Wed 14 Jul 2027
Boys · 19 days door to door
July tour
IndicativeFri 2 Jul – Wed 21 Jul 2027
Boys and girls · 20 days door to door
The form asks only whether May, June–July or either window works for you. Which team you’d take is a conversation we have once the rosters take shape.
What we need from you
Non-negotiables.
We’re taking other people’s children to the other side of the world. Some things aren’t flexible, so here they are up front.
A current Working with Children Check
Required for every Australian coach, no exceptions. You don't need it to submit this form. You need it before you fly.
A current driver's licence
You'll be driving a team vehicle, and you need to carry a hard copy of the licence on tour.
A passport that outlasts the tour
Coaches fly with the group as escorts for the players, to and from the US.
An ABN, and an invoice
Coaches are engaged as contractors, not employees. Half the fee is paid in the first 48 hours of the tour, the balance once your individual player feedback is in.
Certification before 31 March of the tour year
USA Basketball course, NCAA background check and BBCS registration. We reimburse the cost; the deadline is firm.
The whole tour
Roughly three weeks door to door. Part-availability almost never works with a touring roster.
How it works
What happens next.
01
You submit this form
It lands in our coaching pool the moment you send it. Nothing is committed on either side.
02
We review it
Our staff read every submission against the tours we're running and the roles still open on them.
03
We have a conversation
If there's a fit, someone from AUSA calls you to talk through the tour, the role and the dates before anything is locked in.
04
Agreement and onboarding
Coach Agreement, then onboarding: certifications, documents, travel and gear.
More coaches put their hand up than we have spots for, and rosters are built tour by tour. You’ll hear back from us either way, and your EOI stays on file for future tours.
Expression of interest
Put your hand up.
About five minutes. An expression of interest isn’t a commitment from you or from us. It’s how you get into the conversation.
Questions before you apply? Email contactus@ausahoops.com, or read what makes our tours different.