Reuben Jones joined the Brown University Track & Field staff in September 2010 as an assistant coach focusing on the jumps and multi's. 

In his first season with the Bears, the jumpers earned one US Junior National Qualifiers, two NCAA First and Second Round Qualifiers, and three Heptagonal Champions, as well as one school record, and 14 total top ten performances.

Outdoors, Jones guided Rachel Biblo, Gabriela Baiter and Evan Weinstock to All-Ivy Outdoor honors. Biblo and Baiter capped a 1-2 finish in the Triple Jump at the 2011 Heptagonal Outdoor Championships. Weinstock earned First Team All-Ivy Honors by winning the decathlon. Weinstock currently holds the program's second best score (6,775). Biblo's (42'.1.5") and Baiter's (41'6.5") triple jump marks rank second and third all-time, respectively.

Indoors, Biblo earned second team All-Ivy honors in the triple jump while Weinstock set the school record (4896) in the heptathlon, becoming the first Brown athlete to compete in the indoor men's heptathlon.

Prior to Brown, Jones assisted Berry Shumpert with the sprint, jump and hurdle events at Coastal Carolina University At the 2010 Big South Indoor Championships, Coastal Carolina women's team claimed individual titles in the 60m, 200m, 60m hurdles, long jump, high jump and 4x400m relay. One athlete provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championship in the 200m. The outdoor campaign saw the event groups set six school records in the women's 100 and 200 meter dashes men's 4x100m relay 110 hurdles and men and women's high jump

Jones arrived in Myrtle Beach after spending one season as a volunteer coach at his alma mater, the University of Virginia. During the 2009 outdoor season, the men's track and field team won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship for the first time in program history. With Jones' assistance, Virginia had its first-ever 110-meter hurdle champion, while athletes set three school records, four earned All-ACC performances and eight qualified for the NCAA preliminaries.

Prior to coaching, Jones was a four time IC4A Champion while wearing the orange and blue for the wahoos. His times rank second in Virginia track and field history in the 60, 100 and 200 meters.

Jones is USATF Level II certified in the jumps. This past summer, he earned his Jumps Specialist Certification administered by the USTFCCCA.