Parkour Coach

**About us**

Play Project is an organization that is dedicated to spreading knowledge and awareness of parkour in Burlington and the surrounding area. Play Project takes pride in carrying out quality programming for children, teens and adults. We place a lot of value in coaching theory and personal development to ensure that our staff are the best leaders and role models that they can be.

Play Project offers the staff team some great perks, ranging from free training at open gym, to free clothing, discounts on programming, free meals at staff events, and even paying for staff trips (staff have gone on trips for training and competitions to cities within driving distance like Montreal, Detroit and Cincinnati. We also flew our staff team to England and Spain a few years ago).

**Job Summary**

**Responsibilities and Duties**
- Teach advanced parkour techniques to our junior and senior competitive parkour teams during regular weekly practices.
- Support our competitive parkour teams at provincial, national and international competitions.
- Have input and modify our parkour curriculum/training programs for rec. and competitive athletes.
- Facilitate group parkour training programs for athletes in our in-house competitive program and other competitive sports teams, regularly each week.
- Coach private lessons with competitive athletes to ensure that individual student's strengths are bolstered and weaknesses are addressed to create better athletes.
- Develop a strength and conditioning specific program based on biomechanical knowledge of parkour that will help both competitive and rec. athletes develop their skills in sport.

**Performance Expectations**

The Parkour Strength & Conditioning Coordinator should accomplish their responsibilities and duties through the use of the following soft skills:

- excellent communication skills
- positive attitude, including a willingness to learn
- fantastic initiative
- strong leadership and coaching skills
- conflict resolution skills
- foresight and situational awareness
- interested in parkour, youth recreation activities or coaching theory

**Qualifications and Skills**
- Previous employment coaching parkour
- Background practicing parkour at an intermediate to high level
- Experience in a supervisory role within a recreation setting
- First Aid Certification is preferred but not mandatory
- Educational background in biomechanics, personal training, sports management, etc.
- Applicants are required to be a minimum 18 years of age.

Pay: From $36,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Flexible schedule
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Store discount
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

**Experience**:

- Supervising: 1 year (preferred)
- Coaching: 1 year (preferred)
- Parkour: 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2024-10-01