Youth and Sport Team Leader

**Job Summary**:
As a “Youth & Sport Team Leader” you are incredible with kids, have amazing relationships skills and love sports. The job is perfectly suited to anyone who has played lots of sports and holds a degree in education, social work or childcare.

In this role, you will run two different teams for elementary aged youth. The first team is at a elementary school and you will be there between the hours of 1-5:30pm. The second team is at a community hall with a different group of kids from 6-9pm.

You will be at each location with a team of two to four other Free Play staff who are dedicated to work with those teams everyday as well. These staff are all multi-sport leaders and youth mentors. They are a mix of people with backgrounds in child care, sport, coaching and understand the communities we serve in.

Together, your job is to deliver a new practice plan everyday at each of the two sites. These practice plans are provided for you and focus on four key sports: soccer, hockey, basketball and flag football. The goal of each plan is to teach life skills through sport. We call this “Sport to Life.”

As well as the “Sport to Life” plans, you and the other staff will deliver plans on nutritional literacy, take your teams of kids to participate in Free Play tournaments and occasionally go on field trips to other fun places - downhill skiing, museums, swimming, the zoo, the list goes on

Your main role, as a “Youth & Sport Team Leader,” is to be the captain You're the glue that holds your staff team together, ensures the plan of the day is delivered at the highest levels and that families in your care feel safe to play, belong and grow.

**Education & Qualifications**:
Graduate of a recognized postsecondary institution with a degree or diploma in Education, Social Work, Kinesiology, Physical Education, Sociology, Youth Work, Early Childhood Education or equivalent.
- Minimum 3 years experience working with youth such as coaching, social work, in school services, after-school programs, day homes or summer camps.
- Experience coaching or delivering sport and play is a major asset.
- Experience playing a variety of sports is a major asset.
- **_Ability to skate, and teach skating, is a major asset._**
- Experience managing or leading a team is a major asset.
- Must have proven experience in leadership.
- Representative of the community that Free Play serves.
- Standard First Aid Certification and CPR training or ability to obtain quickly.
- Valid driver’s licence with no at fault accidents.
- Clear Criminal and Vulnerable Sector check.

Key Responsibilities:

- Registration: support families to register for the programs being hosted at your sites. Many times there are language barriers that require extra care. This could be finding other staff who speak the language, asking a community member or meeting in person to work through all the documentation required.
- Attendance: be responsible for maintaining the attendance list to ensure proper check ins and check outs are conducted each day. You will also be monitoring the attendance for continued absence. You will follow up with kids and families who are not regular attendees to figure out what supports are required to encourage attendance or for them to release the spot for another family on the waiting list.
- Staffing: help schedule your team of multi-sport leaders to ensure they know their shifts and to find coverage for days they are sick or away. In addition, you will occasionally have volunteers, practicum students or interns who support your sites and you will be asked to provide the same kind of mentorship.
- Curriculum and Practice Plans: make sure your team has the practice plans for each day and understands the sessions they are delivering alongside you. Support them by walking through the plans & potential role play.
- Delivery of Sessions: coach and lead the execution of the curriculum and lesson plans in Free Play’s four core sports of Soccer, Hockey, Basketball, and Flag Football.
- Day to Day logistics: make sure the gyms, fields or classrooms in the school and community halls are booked for Free Play use and that all the equipment we need is on site and in good shape. You’ll do the same for health and safety supplies.
- Policy and Procedures: We have policies that we live by. For example, trying to ensure that staff are not alone with kids in one on one situations and, of course, what to do in the event of an emergency. This is called an Emergency Action Plan. You're the key person ensuring we follow our procedures and know what to do in emergency situations.
- Tournament Coordination: We host regular tournaments. There will be tournaments for the 25 different school sites to all come together and play each other and different tournaments for all the community hall sites to come together and play each other. You’ll be coaching your teams in each space through friendly, fun, competition.
- Field Trip Coordination: Oc